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I believe that Nvidia uses the same chip from A16 up to the A100, and maybe for some of the Quadro chips. That easily puts the unit count into the several mill
by pclmulqdq 4y ago
I believe that Nvidia uses the same chip from A16 up to the A100, and maybe for some of the Quadro chips. That easily puts the unit count into the several millions.
The picture in this article shows 8 racks with (according to the paper on arxiv) has 16 TPU sleds each, 4 TPUs per sled. that's only 512 chips. According to the paper, it is one of eight in a 4096-chip supercomputer. If you give them 10-100 of those around the world, you get 40,000-400,000 chips. That's enough for reasonable scale. Nvidia should still have 100x (or more) their scale.
- the-rc 4y agoThey are not all the same chips; some use different processes, for one. I assume that it would eat into any large volume efficiency claims. I am sure there are more A100s than TPUv4 chips out there, but I would hesitate to say the scale is over 100x.