Interesting to see that the CPU tile on the GH200 is not smaller than the GPU.
Will Jupiter run... Jupyter?
I'll show myself out.
It does already! (Signed up for this.)
Welcome :)
> speaks volumes about difficult it is to start from scratch to achieve chip independence for Europe
It’s tiring hearing this as if the US is any better on chip independence. Until VERY recently, both the US and Europe were limited to around 12nm domestically. Europe still has that capability, along with strong chip design companies, especially in automotive and industrial sectors. And nearly all modern US CPUs in mobile and embedded markets license Arm designs — a European (British) architecture.
Why did you omit the rest of the sentence, which (imo) provides relevant context for your quote?
Here is the relevant context I was referring to:
> […] the fact that it is not using a custom CPU and XPU created by European companies, as was originally hoped, and is basically an Nvidia machine top to middle […] speaks volumes about difficult it is to start from scratch to achieve chip independence for Europe
The article isn’t arguing semantics, and your point regarding ARM and 12nm is valid. However, the bottom line of that specific sentence you partially quoted is that they were hoping to use a custom CPU+XPU created by European companies, but ended up going with NVidia (an American company) instead.
Because none of the rest was relevant.
Here, i will isolate the specific piece:
> start from scratch
Europe isn't "starting from scratch". They have 12nm fabs (just like USA until this year), design their own chips, and designed the architecture that other countries use for their chips.
Also, they didn’t just “end up going with nvidia”. The raw compute itself is only a single component of the cluster (the "booster"). The cluster modules are European designed (albeit outsourced to TSMC for fabrication). But sure, they used nvidias (American designed) Arm (European architecture) cores for the compute. Hopefully rhea will be mature enough to be used for compute as well in the French supercomputer.