Tachyum Moves UEFI to Beta, Adds RAID 1 Capabilities to Prodigy
May 15 2024 - 11:37AM
Business Wire
Tachyum® today announced that it has advanced the Unified
Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) to beta and has added RAID 1
capabilities. These latest improvements are a further indication
that Tachyum’s Prodigy® hardware continues to mature through its
development stages prior to its public release.
UEFI replaces the traditional BIOS as a next-generation
interface between the operating system and platform firmware. It is
used during startup to initialize the hardware and load the OS.
Additionally, UEFI determines device boot priority and allows users
to customize hardware and software settings. With this latest
release, menus and submenus, screens and options received upgrades
for better functionality and an improved user experience.
In conjunction with the advancement to beta, Tachyum released a
user manual that provides details about how to access and use the
UEFI, which is embedded in the system flash on all Prodigy
platforms. The manual explains each of the UEFI menus, how to
configure UEFI parameters and how to save new configurations. The
documents are intended for users who install, maintain,
troubleshoot and administer Prodigy platforms.
RAID’s ability to store data across multiple hard drives (HDDs)
or solid-state drives (SSDs) allows for the protection of data in
case of a drive failure by creating redundancy and improving
performance. Tachyum’s approach to this virtual disk technology
provides:
- RAID 1 boot for preinstalled Linux partition with preinstalled
software
- RAID 1 read-only partition for installation packages and to
restore images to the manufacturing original state if the customer
runs into problems
- Partition where customers can install and configure their own
Linux and apps configured by them
- RAID 0 for data
"We continue to see impressive advancements in the capabilities
and functionality of Prodigy at every level of development," said
Dr. Radoslav Danilak, founder and CEO of Tachyum. “Moving UEFI from
alpha to beta allows a better look and polishing of the UEFI. RAID
1 was added to provide a RAID boot without the need for expensive
NVMe SSD RAID cards, helping to bring Prodigy-enabled systems to
datacenter-level class. All of these moves, including the
expectation that we will have a release candidate available next
quarter, further signifies that we are nearing production of the
Prodigy Universal Processor.”
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.
A video demonstration of RAID 1 UEFI boot on a Prodigy emulation
system is available for viewing at https://youtu.be/ZksczIDoDZ8
.
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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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