Comments on: AMD At A Tipping Point With Instinct MI100 GPU Accelerators https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/11/16/amd-at-a-tipping-point-with-instinct-mi100-gpu-accelerators/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:44:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Hanan Cohen https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/11/16/amd-at-a-tipping-point-with-instinct-mi100-gpu-accelerators/#comment-157458 Wed, 25 Nov 2020 15:40:14 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=137420#comment-157458 Nothing about the software side 🙁

]]> By: jimmy https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/11/16/amd-at-a-tipping-point-with-instinct-mi100-gpu-accelerators/#comment-157326 Fri, 20 Nov 2020 08:37:27 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=137420#comment-157326 In reply to tubar.

NVLink supports 50 GT/s per lane.

GA100 supports 96 lanes (in+out) yielding 300 GB/s in and 300 GB/s out for a total bandwidth of 600 GB/s.

]]> By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/11/16/amd-at-a-tipping-point-with-instinct-mi100-gpu-accelerators/#comment-157229 Tue, 17 Nov 2020 13:36:29 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=137420#comment-157229 In reply to JayN.

That’s a good question but my guess is die area, power, and heat.

]]> By: tubar https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/11/16/amd-at-a-tipping-point-with-instinct-mi100-gpu-accelerators/#comment-157200 Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:47:25 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=137420#comment-157200 Which interconnect is faster? Amd Nvidia or Intel ?

]]> By: JayN https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/11/16/amd-at-a-tipping-point-with-instinct-mi100-gpu-accelerators/#comment-157191 Mon, 16 Nov 2020 19:45:30 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=137420#comment-157191 “Infinity Fabric runs at 23 GT/sec”

what is limiting this to 23 GT/sec? Is it a GPU limit or a thermal limit?

]]> By: John-Paul Hunt https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/11/16/amd-at-a-tipping-point-with-instinct-mi100-gpu-accelerators/#comment-157183 Mon, 16 Nov 2020 18:20:35 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=137420#comment-157183 Puts on ai cloud based resulution 8k two minute papers on YouTube enhancers on gpu drivers and on gpu die and hardware after fixing the water cooling system for a thermo battery heat off loader system to the water battery pump from Intel like cyro cpu cooler.

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