Reading this makes a veteran software developer want to become a scientific researcher.
IKR? Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...
We call it a "SuperPOD" now apparently.
Nvidia Grace CPU
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#12soooo... would something like this be a viable option for a non-mac desktop similar to the 'mac studio' ? def seems targeted at the cloud vendors and large labs... but it'd be great to have a box like that which could run linux.
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#13Reading this makes a veteran software developer want to become a scientific researcher.
IKR? Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...
I don't think you'll have to imagine. It says on the box it's designed for HPC. and every supercomputer in the Top 500 has been a Beowulf cluster for years now.
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#14NVIDIA continues to vertically integrate their datacenter offerings. They bought mellanox to get infiniband. They tried to buy ARM - that didn't work. But they're building & bundling CPUs anyway. I guess when you're so far ahead on the compute side, it's all the peripherals that hold you back, so they're putting together a complete solution.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
IKR? Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...
We call it a "SuperPOD" now apparently.
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#16Anyone have a sense for how much these will cost? Is this more akin to the Mac Studio that costs 4k or an A100 gpu that costs upward of 30k? Looking for an order of magnitude.
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#17NVIDIA continues to vertically integrate their datacenter offerings. They bought mellanox to get infiniband. They tried to buy ARM - that didn't work. But they're building & bundling CPUs anyway. I guess when you're so far ahead on the compute side, it's all the peripherals that hold you back, so they're putting together a complete solution.
Nvidia's been making their own CPUs for a long time now. IIRC the first tegra was used in the Zune HD back in 2009. Hell they've even tried their hand at their own cpu core designs too.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/7621/nvidia-reveals-first-det...
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#18soooo... would something like this be a viable option for a non-mac desktop similar to the 'mac studio' ? def seems targeted at the cloud vendors and large labs... but it'd be great to have a box like that which could run linux.
It’s a server CPU that runs any OS really (Arm SystemReady with UEFI and ACPI).
However, the price tag will be too high for a lot of desktop buyers.
(There are smaller Tegras around though)
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#19Anyone have a sense for how much these will cost? Is this more akin to the Mac Studio that costs 4k or an A100 gpu that costs upward of 30k? Looking for an order of magnitude.
This is definitely not a consumer-grade device, like a Mac Studio.
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#20Anyone have a sense for how much these will cost? Is this more akin to the Mac Studio that costs 4k or an A100 gpu that costs upward of 30k? Looking for an order of magnitude.
Considering that the URL is "/data-center/grace-cpu/", assume much more than a Mac Studio.