Graphcore, the Bristol AI processor company which has raised over $450 million in funding, has announced the second generation of its flagship IPU chip, the GC200.
With 59.4 billion transistors on a single 823sqmm die, Graphcore claims it is the most complex processor ever made.
It is made on TSMC’s 7nm process and integrates 1,472 IPU cores capable of executing 8,832 separate parallel computing threads.
It delivers 250TFlops AI-Float and has 900MB of high speed RAM.
The 2.8Tbps TPU fabric supports scale-out across 64,000 IPUs to create a parallel processor of up to 16 exaflops.
Graphcore has also announced the M2000 IPU machine with four IPU chips which delivers 1petaflop of compute which is available as a standalone or in datacentre pods allowing the connection of up to 64,000 IPU chips.
The M2000 can be easily added to existing data centre infrastructure and the IPU Engine is combined with an IPU Fabric chip, allowing multiple IPU Machines to be added in the rack, and racks of IPU Machines to be connected to build large IPU pods.
“The IPU-Machine M2000 is a plug-and-play Machine Intelligence compute blade that has been designed for easy deployment and supports systems that can grow to massive scale,” says Graphcore CEO Nigel Toon, “the slim 1U blade delivers one PetaFlop of Machine Intelligence compute and includes integrated networking technology, optimized for AI scale-out, inside the box.”
Source: electronicsweekly
