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Given that there are essentially no architectural details here other than bandwidth estimates, and the release timeline is in 2023, how exactly does this count as "unveiling"? Headline should read: "NVidia working on new arm chip due in two years", or something else much more bland.

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Not quite. CSCS supercomputing center in Switzerland have already started receiving the hardware (https://www.cscs.ch/science/computer-science-hpc/2021/cscs-d...). Perhaps, we may see some benchmarks. To wider HPC users, it will be only available in 2023 as the article mentioned.

Hopefully some architectural details are forthcoming then! But that is not what is in this article.

I suspect that's more racks of storage, not racks of compute. Nothing to suggest it's compute.

as i understand it's compute, just not cpu compute, those cpu are designed to be good enough for cuda servers

Hey Ian, I love reading your posts on Anandtech, you're a fantastic technical communicator.

The Alps system at CSCS will have racks with different processors, to be installed in phases. CSCS has taken delivery of the first racks with AMD EPYC processors, for non-GPU workloads. CSCS will be one of the first customers to get their hands on Grace Hopper, but they will have to wait until 2023.

Are there more sources for technical details about the new infrastructure? The interview linked above left me with more questions than answers.

The CPU cores are probably not that interesting, it's going to be the GPU and interlink stuff (pretty impressive if true) that's going to drive this?

It says they use Arm Neoverse cores so it is another processor like Fujitsu A64FX and Amazon Graviton 2.

As AMD proved us, a lot can happen in 3 years

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