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Fujitsu has done this with the A64FX Arm CPU for the “Fugaku” supercomputer at RIKEN Lab in Japan, and the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology has done this with the Sunway SW26010 and SW26010-Pro processors for the respective “TaihuLight” and “OceanLight” supercomputers at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi. Those who need 10X or 100X better AI performance and 10X better HPC performance have little choice but to use GPUs – unless they want to make a custom CPU with a lot of cores with lots of vector engines. There are coding and security implications to doing offloads of any kind – encryption accelerators, bump in the wire FPGA accelerators, or GPU accelerators – and many enterprises and organizations do not want to deal with them. That fact, as we said when we were poring over the Armv9 announcement in March 2021, just a few weeks after the Grace effort was reveled and eight months after the Arm Holdings deal was announced, was why Nvidia wanted to buy Arm: It could get the licensing money for vector, matrix, and digital signal processing intellectual property that would be added to all kinds of CPUs precisely because system architects did not want to do a GPU offload. And we also fully understood the implications of the future Aarmv9 architecture and the fact that a lot of machine learning work – certainly most of inference and possibly some training – would remain on CPUs and would not migrate to GPUs or other accelerators for that matter.

That said, we understood the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to buy the whole Arm – for about an arm and a leg financially speaking but it was mostly Nvidia stock, which spends like cash but isn’t actually cash. And we think it is the plan that Nvidia originally had before the SoftBank proposition was proposed – we joked with Huang that we wanted an Arm server chip from Nvidia but Nvidia didn’t have to Victor Kiam it and buy the whole company. (Transmeta tried to do something like this two decades ago, remember?) Imagine the lawsuits if Nvidia had launched a full-on Denver server chip that could emulate a Xeon or Opteron (and now Epyc) and also run Arm workloads and, perhaps, its own native mode.īut alas, we had to wait another dozen years, and for the Nvidia deal to acquire Arm Holdings from SoftBank for $40 billion to fall through, for a much cleaner Arm server chip plan to emerge for Nvidia. In 2014, when two of the Denver Arm cores appeared on Tegra K1 “superchip” hybrid CPU-GPU chip, the word on the street was that Nvidia had come up with its own CPU instruction set architecture (ISA) and was emulating the Arm ISA on top of that and, significantly, was able to emulate the X86 ISA as well. We have been advocating for over a decade for Nvidia to bring an Arm server chip to market, and were excited by the possibilities when Jensen Huang, Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer, announced the “Project Denver” Arm server initiative back in January 2011, which was when the first wave of Arm server chips tried to crash through the datacenter doors.

#Cpu speed accelerator 8.0 full full#

The Grace CPU will be a full peer to the Hopper GPU, something that the COBOL inventing former US Navy Rear Admiral would perhaps approve of in a metaphorical sense. It will be an important event for Nvidia to shift from being an GPU accelerator supplier to a host CPU supplier – and host CPUs that have plenty of their own vector math oomph and that – and this the very important thing – will be able to run the entire Nvidia HPC and AI stack, including compilers, libraries, and other systems software. But with the release of the Grace CPUs, which were previewed at the GTC 2021 conference a year ago, sometime in the first half of 2023, if all goes well, Nvidia will immediately be a credible supplier of Arm server chips that can compete in terms of performance per watt and, we presume, in cost per dollar per watt, with the best that X86, Arm, or Power architectures out there at the same time. In a way, with the adoption of the BlueField line of Arm-based DPU processors, this transformation is already happening with Nvidia’s system architecture. Within a year or so, with the launch of the “Grace” Arm server CPUs, it will not be heresy for anyone at Nvidia to believe, or to say out loud, that not every workload in the datacenter needs to have GPU acceleration.