GTC -- NVIDIA today announced a series of
collaborations that combine NVIDIA GPUs and software with
Arm®-based CPUs — extending the benefits of Arm’s flexible,
energy-efficient architecture to computing workloads from the cloud
to the edge.
The initiatives include combining AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2
instances with NVIDIA GPUs; supporting the development of
scientific and AI applications with a new HPC Developer Kit;
boosting video analytics and security features at the edge; and
creating a new class of Arm-based PCs with NVIDIA RTX™ GPUs.
“Arm’s energy efficiency and IP business model have made it the
world’s most popular CPU,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of
NVIDIA. “Arm’s ecosystem of technology companies from around the
world are ready to take Arm-based products into new markets like
cloud, supercomputing, PC and autonomous systems. With the new
partnerships announced today, we’re taking important steps to
expand the Arm ecosystem beyond mobile and embedded.”
NVIDIA GPU + AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2
InstancesNVIDIA and AWS announced that they are working
together to deploy GPU-accelerated Arm-based instances in the
cloud. The new Amazon EC2 instances will bring together AWS
Graviton2 processors and NVIDIA GPUs to provide a range of
benefits, including lower cost, support for richer game-streaming
experiences, and greater performance for Arm-based workloads.
The instances will enable game developers to run Android games
natively on AWS, accelerate rendering and encoding with NVIDIA
GPUs, and stream games to mobile devices without the need to run
emulation software.
Devkit for HPCNVIDIA unveiled the NVIDIA Arm
HPC Developer Kit to support scientific computing amid the growing
need for energy-efficient supercomputers and data centers. It
includes an Ampere® Altra® CPU, with 80 Arm Neoverse cores running
up to 3.3GHz; dual NVIDIA A100 GPUs, each delivering 312 teraflops
of FP16 deep learning performance, as well as two NVIDIA
BlueField-2® DPUs, which accelerate networking, storage and
security.
The devkit runs the NVIDIA HPC SDK, a suite of compilers,
libraries and tools that enable engineers, scientists and
developers to create and migrate HPC and AI applications to a
GPU-accelerated Arm computing system.
Developers and ISV partners can use the devkit to easily migrate
and validate their software, and conduct performance analysis.
Among initial leading computing centers deploying it are Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Stony Brook
University in the U.S.; the National Center for High Performance
Computing, in Taiwan; and the Korean Institute of Science and
Technology.
Sean Varley, senior director of Solutions at Ampere Computing,
said, “The powerful combination of NVIDIA GPU and DPU accelerators
with cloud-native Ampere Altra processors offers our customers
leading performance, scalability, instance and core density, all
while predictably executing very demanding data center and cloud
workloads such as cloud gaming, HPC, scientific compute, artificial
intelligence and networking. NVIDIA’s Arm HPC Developer Kit is an
easily accessible way to test drive this world-class combination
for the most challenging workloads.”
Developers can apply for early access to the HPC devkit, which
will be available in Q3.
Additionally, NVIDIA is working with lab directors, scientists
and partners to help them port their software to run on Arm CPUs
and NVIDIA GPUs.
Collaborations in Edge, PCNVIDIA is expanding
its collaboration with Marvell to combine OCTEON® DPUs with GPUs to
accelerate cloud, enterprise, carrier and edge applications. This
combination will speed up AI workloads such as network optimization
and security from the edge to cloud, boosting system performance
and reducing latency.
“Marvell’s Arm-based OCTEON DPU platform has a long, proven
track record of delivering industry-leading solutions to address
the growing security, networking and storage requirements of cloud
data centers,” said Matt Murphy, president and CEO of Marvell.
“We’re thrilled to expand our multi-year relationship with NVIDIA
to combine our OCTEON DPUs with NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate video
analytics and cybersecurity solutions for emerging edge to cloud
applications.”
In PCs, NVIDIA is partnering with MediaTek, one of the world’s
largest suppliers of Arm-based SoCs, to create a reference platform
supporting Chromium, Linux and NVIDIA SDKs. The combination of
NVIDIA RTX GPUs with high-performance, energy-efficient Arm Cortex®
processors will bring realistic ray-traced graphics and
cutting-edge AI to a new class of laptops.
MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai said, “MediaTek is the world’s largest
supplier of Arm chips, used to power everything from smartphones,
Chromebooks and smart TVs. We look forward to using our technology
and working with NVIDIA to bring the power of GPUs to the Arm PC
platform for gaming, content creation and much more. GPU
acceleration will be a huge boost for the entire Arm
ecosystem.”
Learn more during GTC21, taking place online April 12-16, and
watch Huang’s keynote address streaming live starting at 8:30 am PT
on April 12. Registration is free.
Additional Partner SupportNVIDIA is
collaborating on this work with other partners, including Fujitsu
and SiPearl.
“Our collaboration with NVIDIA and the Arm ecosystem to
accelerate HPC and data science will give researchers a broader
development opportunity to build innovative solutions for
scientific breakthroughs,” said Naoki Shinjo, corporate executive
officer, senior vice president and deputy head of the Future
Society & Technology Unit at Fujitsu Limited.
“SiPearl is designing and bringing to market the European
high-performance, energy-efficient processor, Rhea, that will power
Europe’s exascale supercomputers,” said Philippe Notton, CEO of
SiPearl. “NVIDIA’s new tools and SDKs will help developers build
accelerated HPC apps for Arm, providing supercomputing centers a
rich Arm ecosystem.”
About NVIDIANVIDIA‘s (NASDAQ: NVDA) invention
of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market and
has redefined modern computer graphics, high performance computing
and artificial intelligence. The company’s pioneering work in
accelerated computing and AI is reshaping trillion-dollar
industries, such as transportation, healthcare and manufacturing,
and fueling the growth of many others.
For further information, contact: Ken
BrownDirector, Corporate CommunicationsNVIDIA
+1-510-290-2603kebrown@nvidia.com
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collaborations combining NVIDIA GPUs and software with Arm-based
CPUs, as well as NVIDIA’s efforts to accelerate Arm applications;
growing interest in Arm-based solutions beyond mobile; growing
demand for processing driving an enormous need for Arm’s computing
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