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I feel like the name’s been funny for a decade and a half, and a new name might be coming, but GPU has been pretty synonymous with massively parallel vector/SIM
by dahart 5y ago
I feel like the name’s been funny for a decade and a half, and a new name might be coming, but GPU has been pretty synonymous with massively parallel vector/SIMD processor for a long time, right? Most still have some dedicated graphics functionality, but people have also been using them for high performance headless compute for quite a while. I certainly prefer just GPU over GPGPU. It seems hard to change though, and might be confusing to call it a vector processor, considering CPUs have vector/SIMD support. So what would be a better name?
- my123 5y agoGPUs without graphics support are already a thing. But so far, NVIDIA is staying on the GPU term. For the H100, very minimalistic FF support was picked. Only two TPCs in both the SXM5 and PCIe H100 GPUs are graphics-capable (that is, they can run vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders). And that’s out of: 8 GPCs, 66 TPCs, 2 SMs/TPC, 132 SMs per GPU for an H100 SXM5. Aka just for compatibility.