Taiwan’s Tech Titans Adopt World’s First NVIDIA Grace CPU-Powered System Designs
NVIDIA has announced a new class of data center systems powered by its Grace CPU Superchip and Grace Hopper Superchip, designed for diverse workloads including AI, cloud graphics, and gaming. Major Taiwanese manufacturers such as ASUS and GIGABYTE will begin releasing these systems in early 2023. The new architecture promises enhanced performance with up to 144 Arm V9 cores and data transfer speeds 15 times faster between the CPU and GPU. This initiative aims to meet the increasing demands of AI and high-performance computing, transforming data centers into AI factories.
- Launch of systems with Grace CPU and Grace Hopper Superchip addressing diverse workloads.
- Partnerships with leading Taiwanese manufacturers like ASUS and GIGABYTE to support product rollouts.
- Enhanced performance with up to 144 Arm V9 cores and significant memory bandwidth.
- Dependence on third-party manufacturers increases vulnerability to supply chain disruptions.
- Risks related to market acceptance and competition within the fast-evolving AI sector.
New Class of Data Center Systems for Digital Twins, AI, High Performance Computing, Cloud Graphics and Gaming to Come From ASUS, Foxconn Industrial Internet, GIGABYTE, QCT, Supermicro, Wiwynn
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- COMPUTEX -- NVIDIA today announced that Taiwan’s leading computer makers are set to release the first wave of systems powered by the NVIDIA Grace™ CPU Superchip and Grace Hopper Superchip for a wide range of workloads spanning digital twins, AI, high performance computing, cloud graphics and gaming.
Dozens of server models from ASUS, Foxconn Industrial Internet, GIGABYTE, QCT, Supermicro and Wiwynn are expected starting in the first half of 2023. The Grace-powered systems will join x86 and other Arm-based servers to offer customers a broad range of choice for achieving high performance and efficiency in their data centers.
“A new type of data center is emerging — AI factories that process and refine mountains of data to produce intelligence — and NVIDIA is working closely with our Taiwan partners to build the systems that enable this transformation,” said Ian Buck, vice president of Hyperscale and HPC at NVIDIA. “These new systems from our partners, powered by our Grace Superchips, will bring the power of accelerated computing to new markets and industries globally.”
The coming servers are based on four new system designs featuring the Grace CPU Superchip and Grace Hopper Superchip, which NVIDIA announced at its two most recent GTC conferences. The 2U form factor designs provide the blueprints and server baseboards for original design manufacturers and original equipment manufacturers to quickly bring to market systems for the NVIDIA CGX™ cloud gaming, NVIDIA OVX™ digital twin and the NVIDIA HGX™ AI and HPC platforms.
Supercharging Modern Workloads
The two NVIDIA Grace Superchip technologies enable a broad range of compute-intensive workloads across a multitude of system architectures.
- The Grace CPU Superchip features two CPU chips, connected coherently through an NVIDIA NVLink®-C2C interconnect, with up to 144 high-performance Arm V9 cores with scalable vector extensions and a 1 terabyte-per-second memory subsystem. The breakthrough design provides the highest performance and twice the memory bandwidth and energy efficiency of today’s leading server processors to address the most demanding HPC, data analytics, digital twin, cloud gaming and hyperscale computing applications.
- The Grace Hopper Superchip pairs an NVIDIA Hopper™ GPU with a Grace CPU over NVLink-C2C in an integrated module designed to address HPC and giant-scale AI applications. Using the NVLink-C2C interconnect, the Grace CPU transfers data to the Hopper GPU 15x faster than traditional CPUs.
Broad Grace Server Portfolio for AI, HPC, Digital Twins and Cloud Gaming
The Grace CPU Superchip and Grace Hopper Superchip server design portfolio includes systems available in single baseboards with one-, two- and four-way configurations available across four workload-specific designs that can be customized by server manufacturers according to customer needs:
- NVIDIA HGX Grace Hopper systems for AI training, inference and HPC are available with the Grace Hopper Superchip and NVIDIA BlueField®-3 DPUs.
- NVIDIA HGX Grace systems for HPC and supercomputing feature the CPU-only design with Grace CPU Superchip and BlueField-3.
- NVIDIA OVX systems for digital twins and collaboration workloads feature the Grace CPU Superchip, BlueField-3 and NVIDIA GPUs.
- NVIDIA CGX systems for cloud graphics and gaming feature the Grace CPU Superchip, BlueField-3 and NVIDIA A16 GPUs.
NVIDIA is extending its NVIDIA-Certified Systems™ program to servers using the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip and Grace Hopper Superchip, in addition to x86 CPUs. The first certifications of OEM servers are expected soon after partner systems ship.
Supported Software
The Grace server portfolio is optimized for NVIDIA’s rich computing software stacks, including NVIDIA HPC, NVIDIA AI, Omniverse™ and NVIDIA RTX™.
To learn more about NVIDIA Grace, watch the Computex keynote on Tuesday, May 24, at 11 a.m. Taiwan time.
About NVIDIA
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