Nvidia and Arm Collabs to Build Energy-efficient Supercomputers
Continuing with the collaborations with Arm, a British semiconductor design company, now Nvidia is again working together with the company to support the processors built by the former. Nvidia announced the news at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) going on in Frankfurt, Germany, saying that the partnership will be able to build supercomputers which will “exascale” on performance.
According to Nvidia, the two companies are working towards developing the energy-efficient supercomputers that will be carrying out at least a quintillion (a billion) floating point, i.e. Flops, computations per second. Noticeably, one flop is equal to the multiplication of two 15-digit numbers.
Nvidia’s founder and CEO Jensen Huang, while announcing the news at the event, said, “As traditional compute scaling has ended, the world’s supercomputers have become power constrained. Our support for Arm, which designs the world’s most energy-efficient CPU architecture, is a giant step forward that builds on initiatives Nvidia is driving to provide the HPC industry with a more power-efficient future”.
The company will be extending its support for Arm with its high-performance computing and AI-focused software by 2020. The other services that the company will be offering Arm, includes software development kits, profilers, CUDA-X libraries, PGI compilers with OpenACC support, and graphics-accelerated frameworks, etc.
The partnership between the two companies will help Arm to expand its business and build trust among the investors, as no computer architecture from the company will be without the support of Nvidia. Though it is not the first time that the two are working together, previously, the two had joined hands for Nvidia’s AGX platform that incorporated Arm-based chips and also Nvidia’s Deep Learning Accelerator (NVIDIA).
On the other hand, with this partnership, Nvidia will be getting access to the most energy-efficient chip designs, specially built for mobile devices. According to Nvidia, the energy saving products are the next big thing that is going to be the most important in the coming future.
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