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IBM Adds POWER9 AIO, Pushes for an Open Memory-Agnostic Interface

Architectures Hot Chips 31 Interconnects Server Processors November 3, 2019 0

IBM adds a third variant of POWER9, the POWER9 Advanced I/O (AIO) processor which incorporates the Open Memory Interface (OMI), a new open memory-agnostic interface.

POWER9 Scales Up To 1.2 TB/s of I/O, Targets NVLink 3, OpenCAPI Memory for 2019

Architectures Floorplanning Hot Chips 30 Interconnects Server Processors October 7, 2018 0

A look at the IBM POWER9 scale-up design recently disclosed at Hot Chips 30 and their plans for a 3rd POWER9 derivative for 2019.

Hot Chips 30: Nvidia Xavier SoC

Architectures Floorplanning Hot Chips 30 September 8, 2018 0

An overview of the Xavier SoC which was detailed by Nvidia at Hot Chips 30.

ORNL’s 200-petaFLOPS Summit Supercomputer Has Arrived, To Become World’s Fastest

Supercomputers June 16, 2018 0

A look at the 200-petaFLOPS Summit supercomputer which was officially unveiled last Friday by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

A look at Nvidia’s NVLink interconnect and the NVSwitch

Architectures Circuit Design Conferences Floorplanning Graphics Processors May 6, 2018 0

A look at Nvidia’s NVLink interconnect and the 2-billion transistor NVSwitch that is powering Nvidia’s latest DGX-2 deep learning machine.