Scalable Cluster of NVIDIA Mobile Tegra K1 GPUs Connected with
RapidIO Interconnect Enables Thousands of Nodes, Offering Best-in-Class
Compute-to-I/O Performance
Company Website:
http://www.IDT.com
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- (Business Wire)
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT®)
(NASDAQ: IDTI) today announced the development of a groundbreaking
compute architecture designed to handle the immense data demands of
online gaming, high-performance computing and analytics through
high-density, low-latency clusters of connected mobile processors. In
conjunction with Orange Silicon Valley, the semiconductor company
co-developed a massive highly scalable, low-latency cluster of low-power
NVIDIA® Tegra® K1 mobile processors, using IDT’s
RapidIO® interconnect technology to connect multiple
nodes at up to 16 Gbps. The architecture can scale to more than 2,000
nodes in a rack and enables ultra-high Gflop density and energy
efficiency not achievable with PCI Express® or Ethernet
technologies.
The result is a uniquely powerful force of computing horsepower built
into very little board space. With up to 23 Tflops per 1U server, or
greater than 800 Tflops of computing per rack, the cluster architecture
enables approximately twice the computing density of the world’s top
supercomputer, Tianhe-2 in China. It achieves this density by leveraging
distributed switching and interconnect along with mobile-grade GPU
technology, balancing I/O and compute per node in a best-in-class real
estate footprint.
"By integrating a large volume of low-power GPUs in a server rack at
scale, this industry first creates a clear path to massive cloud-based
clusters for analytics and gaming,” said Jag Bolaria of the Linley
Group. “This achievement means developing large clusters with low
latency and massive scalability is finally possible. This architecture
delivers—in an energy- and latency-efficient manner—remarkable computing
horsepower in addressing the challenge of co-locating analytics in the
approximately 2 million base stations deployed annually in wireless
networks.”
The new architecture matches computing cores with 16 Gbps data rate to
each node for better computing-to-throughput balance, one of the key
limitations in the industry today. The compute to I/O ratio will
continue to improve with 40 Gbps IDT RapidIO 10xN technology.
The architecture allows for 60 nodes on a 19-inch 1U board, with more
than 2,000 nodes in a rack. Any node can communicate with another node
with only 400 ns of fabric latency. Memory-to-memory latency is less
than two microseconds. Each node consists of a Tsi721 PCIe®
to RapidIO NIC and a Tegra K1 Mobile Processor with 384 Gflops per 16
Gbps of data rate, or 24 floating point operations per bit of I/O. This
will be valuable at the rack level in data centers and at the individual
analytics server level for wireless access networks.
The cluster was achieved with NVIDIA’s Jetson TK1 development kit, which
is powered by the revolutionary NVIDIA Tegra K1 mobile processor. Built
on the same NVIDIA Kepler® GPU architecture that powers the world’s
fastest supercomputers, Tegra K1 delivers 192 fully programmable CUDA
cores for advanced graphics and compute performance.
“Leading innovators in the ‘Big Data’ arena are increasingly discovering
the benefits RapidIO interconnect can bring to their applications,” said
Sean Fan, vice president and general manager of IDT’s Interface and
Connectivity Division. “Our work with Orange Silicon Valley—connecting
massive numbers of low-power NVIDIA mobile processors via
RapidIO—demonstrates a breakthrough approach to addressing the tradeoffs
between total computing, power and balanced networking interconnect to
feed the processors.”
IDT will showcase the RapidIO and NVIDIA Tegra K1-powered clustering
technology Nov. 18-20, 2014, in the RapidIO.org booth (#3952) at
Supercomputing 14, Ernest N. Memorial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA.
About
IDT
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. develops system-level solutions that
optimize its customers’ applications. IDT uses its market leadership in
timing, serial switching and interfaces, and adds analog and system
expertise to provide complete application-optimized, mixed-signal
solutions for the communications, computing and consumer segments.
Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., IDT has design, manufacturing, sales
facilities and distribution partners throughout the world. IDT stock is
traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market® under the symbol
“IDTI.” Additional information about IDT is accessible at www.IDT.com.
Follow IDT on Facebook,
LinkedIn,
Twitter,
YouTube
and Google+.
IDT and the IDT logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. NVIDIA® ( NASDAQ: NVDA) is a
registered trademark of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and
other countries. All other brands, product names and marks are or may be
trademarks or registered trademarks used to identify products or
services of their respective owners.
Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http://www.businesswire.com/multimedia/home/20141118005342/en/
Contacts:
IDT
Dean Solov, 408-284-2608
Public Relations Manager
dean.solov@idt.com
Source: Integrated Device Technology, Inc.
© 2024 Canjex Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.