Nvidia Volta GPU

[Austin Borg]

Source :http://wccftech.com/nvidia-pascal-gpu-gtc-2015/

 

 

NVLink is an energy-efficient, high-bandwidth communications channel that uses up to three times less energy to move data on the node at speeds 5-12 times conventional PCIe Gen3 x16. First available in the NVIDIA Pascal GPU architecture, NVLink enables fast communication between the CPU and the GPU, or between multiple GPUs. Figure 3: NVLink is a key building block in the compute node of Summit and Sierra supercomputers.

VOLTA GPU Featuring NVLINK and Stacked Memory NVLINK GPU high speed interconnect 80-200 GB/s 3D Stacked Memory 4x Higher Bandwidth (~1 TB/s) 3x Larger Capacity 4x More Energy Efficient per bit.

NVLink is a key technology in Summit’s and Sierra’s server node architecture, enabling IBM POWER CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs to access each other’s memory fast and seamlessly. From a programmer’s perspective, NVLink erases the visible distinctions of data separately attached to the CPU and the GPU by “merging” the memory systems of the CPU and the GPU with a high-speed interconnect. Because both CPU and GPU have their own memory controllers, the underlying memory systems can be optimized differently (the GPU’s for bandwidth, the CPU’s for latency) while still presenting as a unified memory system to both processors. NVLink offers two distinct benefits for HPC customers. First, it delivers improved application performance, simply by virtue of greatly increased bandwidth between elements of the node. Second, NVLink with Unified Memory technology allows developers to write code much more seamlessly and still achieve high performance. via 

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The third thing Jen-Hsun mentioned is how he believes Pascal GPU will be able to achieve 10x better performance compared to Maxwell. The key to this improvement is mixed precision or FP16 compute which NVIDIA recently switched inside their Tegra X1 SOC.

Read more: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-pascal-gpu-gtc-2015/#ixzz3jTyYn05p

[IP man]

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[Aytex]

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[WereCat]

And will it allow only to use NVIDIA card? (another proprietary thing?)

[Guest]

Now only if I could read it with the night theme...