A new accelerated central processing unit for complex artificial intelligence and high-performance computing presented by NVIDIA, a company that invented the graphics processing unit, may be available later this year.
NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip is now being produced, according to a May 28 news release. This chip is expected to run complex AI and HPC workloads worldwide.
“Generative AI is rapidly transforming businesses, unlocking new opportunities and accelerating discovery in healthcare, finance, business services and many more industries,” Ian Buck, vice president of accelerated computing at NVIDIA, said in the release. “With Grace Hopper Superchips in full production, manufacturers worldwide will soon provide the accelerated infrastructure enterprises needed to build and deploy generative AI applications that leverage their unique proprietary data.”
The GH200-powered systems join the more than 400 system configurations that use various NVIDIA CPU, GPU and DPU architectures, such as NVIDIA GraceTM, NVIDIA HopperTM, NVIDIA Ada LovelaceTM and NVIDIA BlueField, to help fulfill the growing need for generative AI, the release reported.
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang unveiled new systems, partners and additional information on the GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip at COMPUTEX, according to the release. This chip uses NVIDIA NVLink-C2C interconnect technology to combine the Arm-based NVIDIA Grace CPU and Hopper GPU architectures.
This provides computational capabilities to handle the most demanding generative AI and HPC workloads, the release said. It can give up to 900GB/s total bandwidth, which is 7-times higher bandwidth than the regular PCIe Gen5 lanes used in conventional accelerated systems.
Several system manufacturers, including those from Taiwan, offer a wide range of systems on the market that are powered by various NVIDIA accelerators and CPUs, the release reported. The following were mentioned in Huang's keynote speech at COMPUTEX today as important partners: AAEON, Advantech, Aetina, ASRock Rack, ASUS, GIGABYTE, Ingrasys, Inventec, Pegatron, QCT, Tyan, Wistron and Wiwynn.
Additionally, a wide range of NVIDIA-accelerated systems are offered by major server manufacturers Cisco, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo, Supermicro and Atos subsidiary Eviden, the release said.
