Nvidia’s monster 144-core Grace CPU Superchip is coming to a system near you
Servers powered by the Grace CPU Superchip are set to launch in H1 2023
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Nvidiahas revealed that its highly-anticipated Grace CPU Superchip is set to feature in a range of newserverslaunching in the first half of 2023.
The new systems - from the likes of Asus, Gigabyte, Supermicro and others - will be based on four new 2U reference designs teased byNvidiaatComputex 2022.
The messaging coming out of Nvidia suggests the company believes the newArm-based servers powered by Grace will complement existing systems on the market, far from rendering x86-based offerings obsolete.
Nvidia Grace CPU Superchip
Unveiled atGTC 2022earlier this year, the Grace CPU Superchip is comprised of two Grace CPUs linked up via high-speed NVLink interconnect, in a similar fashion toApple’s M1 Ultra.
The result is a 144-core monster with 1TB/s of bandwidth and 396MB on-chip cache that Nvidia claims will be the fastest processor on the market for workloads ranging from AI to HPC and more.
“A new type of data center has emerged - AI factories that process and refine mountains of data to produce intelligence,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, when the new chip was first announced.
“The Grace CPU Superchip offers the highest performance, memory bandwidth and Nvidia software platforms in one chip and will shine as the CPU of the world’s AI infrastructure.”
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With concrete timelines now revealed for the launch of the first Grace CPU Superchip-powered servers, excitement will begin to gather around the new Nvidia chips.
The four reference designs are each specced out to cater for specific use cases, fromcloudgaming to digital twins, HPC and AI. Nvidia says the designs can be modified easily by partners to “quickly spin up motherboards leveraging their existing system architectures”.
Although many of the largest names in the server market have already expressed intent to build Grace-based systems, Nvidia will hope there is more to come in the months ahead.
Joel Khalili is the News and Features Editor at TechRadar Pro, covering cybersecurity, data privacy, cloud, AI, blockchain, internet infrastructure, 5G, data storage and computing. He’s responsible for curating our news content, as well as commissioning and producing features on the technologies that are transforming the way the world does business.
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