I wonder how ‘powerful’ this Intel Xe-HPC Ponte Vecchio graphics card really is? Apparently it can offer up to one petaflop of computing power … but what does that really mean in the real world?
Taken from TPU … Raja Koduri of Intel has today posted an interesting video on his Twitter account. Showing one of the greatest engineering marvels Intel has ever created, Mr. Koduri has teased what is to come when the company launches the Xe-HPC Ponte Vecchio graphics card designed for high-performance computing workloads. Showcased today was the “petaflops in your palm” chip, designed to run AI workloads with a petaflop of computing power. Having over 100 billion transistors, the chip uses as much as 47 tiles combined in the most advanced packaging technology ever created by Intel. They call them “magical tiles”, and they bring logic, memory, and I/O controllers, all built using different semiconductor nodes.
Peta-flops in your palm. An ambitious dream. @intel silicon engineers along with our packaging alchemists made it come true in just 2 years! @pgelsinger‘s infectious energy for technology is a great accelerant for our march onwards to bring this magic to a cloud near you pic.twitter.com/C4LMuNrY2F
— Raja Koduri (@Rajaontheedge) March 24, 2021
Mr. Koduri also pointed out that the chip was born after only two years after the concept, which is an awesome achievement, given that the research of the new silicon takes years. The chip will be the heart of many systems that require massive computational power, especially the ones like AI. Claiming to have the capability to perform quadrillion floating-point operations per second (one petaflop), the chip will be a true monster. So far we don’t know other details like the floating-point precision it runs at with one petaflop or the total power consumption of those 47 tiles, so we have to wait for more details.
Source: TPU
