NVLink – WikiChip Fuse

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

David SchorArchitectures, Floorplanning, Hot Chips 30, Interconnects, Server ProcessorsOctober 7, 2018 Tagged 14HP, 14nm, A-Bus, Centaur, Hot Chips, Hot Chips 30, IBM, NVLink, OpenCAPI, POWER, POWER9, PowerAXON, X-Bus

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

David SchorArchitectures, Floorplanning, Hot Chips 30September 8, 2018 Tagged 12FFN, 12nm, AI, ARM, ARMv8, neural processors, Nvidia, NVLink, Tegra, Xavier

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

David SchorSupercomputersJune 16, 2018 Tagged DoE, IBM, Nvidia, NVLink, ORNL, PCIe 4.0, POWER, Supercomputer

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

David SchorArchitectures, Circuit Design, Conferences, Floorplanning, Graphics ProcessorsMay 6, 2018 Tagged 12FFN, 12nm, AI, DGX-1, DGX-2, GPU, Interconnect, Nvidia, NVLink, NVSwitch, Pascal, Volta

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