At the conference HotChips 2017, as noted by the site Serve the Home , representatives of NVIDIA talked about the advantages of computations accelerators based on the GV100 processor with the Volta architecture, which the language does not turn to be called "graphic". Special attention was paid to tensor computations, but NVIDIA did not miss the opportunity to recall once again that the Tesla V100 accelerators delivered to developers have hidden reserves.
In any case, of the 5376 stream processors, only 5120 pieces are available to customers, although the footnote on the slide indicates the characteristics of the full configuration of the GV100 without the slightest restriction.
Separately, the theoretical level of the speed of the computation accelerators is compared with the architecture of Volta and Pascal.
Among other things, Volta provides the use of up to six channels of NVLink with increased bandwidth. To scale accelerated computing systems this is a very important feature. Recall that at a recent quarterly reporting conference, the head of NVIDIA refused to name even the approximate time for the appearance of game graphics solutions with the Volta architecture, but he urged consumers to wait for pleasant surprises. True, most likely, not this year. Related Products :
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