[Beowulf] Nvidia and IBM create GPU interconnect for faster supercomputing

[Jörg Saßmannshausen]

Hi all,

Prentice is right, the picture and the text are not matching. I stumbled over 
that as well but did not have the time to think it through. 
My understanding is also that the NVlink is between GPUs and CPU.

However, the main question is: will that work with other chipsets (Intel, AMD) 
as well or will that only work with the IBM chips?

All the best from a cold London

Jörg

On Thursday 27 Mar 2014 14:43:57 Prentice Bisbal wrote:
> On 03/25/2014 07:25 PM, Mark Hahn wrote:
> >> Sounds like a memory coherent 80GB/sec link:
> > nah.
> > http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/Releases/NVIDIA-Launches-World-s-First-High-
> > Speed-GPU-Interconnect-Helping-Pave-the-Way-to-Exascale-Computin-ad6.aspx
> > 
> > 
> > shows only gpu-gpu links (just like SLI).
> 
> I think that picture is incorrect. It shows NVlink only between the
> GPUS, but the text accompanying it states
> 
> "plans to integrate a high-speed interconnect, called NVIDIA® NVLink™,
> into its future GPUs, enabling GPUs and CPUs to share data five to 12
> times faster than they can today."
> 
> This is in disagreement with the illustration. I think someone included
> the wrong illustration by accident, or drew it wrong. Is there anyone
> from NVidia on this list that can provide clarity here?
> 
> --
> Prentice
> 
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