Tachyum Software Distribution Package Enters Beta Testing
May 21 2024 - 11:36AM
Business Wire
Tachyum® today announced that its Prodigy® software
distribution, a completely integrated software stack and package,
is now available to early adopters and customers as a pre-installed
image as part of the beta phase of testing.
Applications included in the beta version of the distribution
package have been tested to work straight out of the box so that
customers and partners can immediately begin using the Prodigy
reference design. Additionally, users can effortlessly restore to
the original image in case any issues arise during the beta testing
phase.
As part of the beta release, Tachyum upgraded all software and
tested 57b addressing with applications on the Prodigy FPGA
emulation system. The company also began performance optimization,
moving to 64KB page size as the default of its software
distribution. The 4KB pages that Intel copied from IBM 370 in 1971
are outdated with 4KB support now viewed as legacy. Because
optimization towards 16KB storage block size is where modern
high-capacity, cost-efficient SSD storage is headed, Tachyum will
focus on SSD Indirection Unit (IU) 16KB with 4KB pages only serving
as a backup solution for those who have a special need.
Additional advancements to the beta release include:
- GCC was updated to the most recent version that supports
BFloat16 data type.
- 4KB 48b VA was tested to indicate whether issues were more
likely in hardware vs. software but now with cleanly running 57b VA
on Prodigy FPGA emulation system, Tachyum switched to 57b VA and
fixed bugs in software.
- Tachyum is now switching to 64KB pages 55b VA in the QEMU
software emulator as application software in these modes is less
frequently tested. After testing in QEMU, Tachyum will test it on
the FPGA prototype of its Prodigy.
- Tachyum will achieve the same testing coverage on 64KB pages as
with 4KB pages with 48b VA.
This latest progression in the Prodigy software distribution
closely follows a series of progressive achievements as part of
Tachyum’s advancement to production-ready status. These
achievements include adding support for performance optimization
using counters and instruction profiling, hardware debugging
capabilities and a watchdog timer to help detect and recovery from
device or system malfunctions.
Tachyum previously advanced the Unified Extensible Firmware
Interface (UEFI) to beta and has added RAID 1 capabilities and UEFI
manual; the FreeBSD operating system can now be compiled using
LLVM; and Linux kernel in the beta release will have mTHP
support.
"Hardware and software must be able to work in unison to produce
the greatest results possible," said Dr. Radoslav Danilak, founder
and CEO of Tachyum. “With the successes we have had in advancing
the hardware aspect of the Prodigy Universal Processor Chip, moving
our software distribution package to beta is a tremendous step in
achieving our goals of revolutionizing the data center. We are
thankful to those partners and customers that have helped us
achieve beta status and are excited to see what they can do with
this latest, upgraded version of our software.”
As a Universal Processor offering industry-leading performance
for all workloads, Prodigy-powered data center servers can
seamlessly and dynamically switch between computational domains
(such as AI/ML, HPC, and cloud) with a single homogeneous
architecture. By eliminating the need for expensive dedicated AI
hardware and dramatically increasing server utilization, Prodigy
reduces CAPEX and OPEX significantly while delivering unprecedented
data center performance, power, and economics. Prodigy integrates
192 high-performance custom-designed 64-bit compute cores, to
deliver up to 4.5x the performance of the highest-performing x86
processors for cloud workloads, up to 3x that of the highest
performing GPU for HPC, and 6x for AI applications.
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About Tachyum
Tachyum is transforming the economics of AI, HPC, public and
private cloud workloads with Prodigy, the world’s first Universal
Processor. Prodigy unifies the functionality of a CPU, a GPU, and a
TPU in a single processor to deliver industry-leading performance,
cost and power efficiency for both specialty and general-purpose
computing. As global data center emissions continue to contribute
to a changing climate, with projections of their consuming 10
percent of the world’s electricity by 2030, the ultra-low power
Prodigy is positioned to help balance the world’s appetite for
computing at a lower environmental cost. Tachyum recently received
a major purchase order from a US company to build a large-scale
system that can deliver more than 50 exaflops performance, which
will exponentially exceed the computational capabilities of the
fastest inference or generative AI supercomputers available
anywhere in the world today. When complete in 2025, the
Prodigy-powered system will deliver a 25x multiplier vs. the
world’s fastest conventional supercomputer – built just this year –
and will achieve AI capabilities 25,000x larger than models for
ChatGPT4. Tachyum has offices in the United States and Slovakia.
For more information, visit https://www.tachyum.com/.
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