The Tachyum Prodigy DDR-IO FPGA board connects to the Prodigy FPGA CPU board to provide memory and I / O connectivity for FPGA based CPU tiles. The fully functional Prodigy emulation system is now ready for development, including Linux booting and the incorporation of additional test chips. It is available for customers to do preliminary testing and software development ahead of a full four-socket benchmark design motherboard, which is expected to be available in Q4 2021.
The DDR-IO FPGA board offers the following advanced features to support high performance connectivity and improved management for the FPGA CPU board:
- 4 DDR4 channels supporting 2 DIMMs per channel for a total of 8 DIMMs
- 32 PCIe 3.0 lanes with 4 PCIe slots
- Aspeed AST2600 Base Card Management Controller (BMC)
- OCP System Control Module (SCM)
- Several additional interfaces including 1 GbE management port, 2 USB ports and UARTs
- Flexibility to configure to accommodate test chips for DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 to fully test the Prodigy design
Delivery of the IO motherboard for the Prodigy FPGA prototype provides the necessary platform to perform IO device porting and IO compatibility testing before tape release. In addition, this delivery enables the testing and validation of 5nm test chips from Tachyum IP vendors.
Tachyum will provide access to the FPGA prototype to early partners, allowing them to finalize any changes to their software stacks before full chip production begins. The next step in the process will be to demonstrate the functionality of the entire system before sampling later this year.
“Once again, we have taken an important step in the development of the world’s first universal processor,†said Dr Radoslav Danilak, co-founder and CEO of Tachyum. “Our IO motherboard, in conjunction with our CPU motherboard, allows our engineers to fully test the functionality of Prodigy. Together, these two FPGA-based boards form the basis of a system that can be cascaded to fully emulate a 128-core Prodigy processor, capable of moving the entire world into a greener era by enabling AI to run. scale of the human brain.
Tachyum’s Prodigy processor can run HPC applications, convolutional AI, explainable AI, general AI, bio AI, and spiked neural networks, as well as normal data center workloads, on a single platform – homogeneous processor shape, using existing standard programming models. Without Prodigy, hyperscale data centers must use a combination of CPU, GPU, TPU hardware for these different workloads, creating inefficiency, expense, and complexity of separate procurement and maintenance infrastructures. Using specific hardware dedicated to each type of workload (eg, data center, AI, HPC) results in underutilization of hardware resources and more difficult programming, support, and maintenance. Prodigy’s ability to seamlessly switch between these different workloads dramatically changes the competitive landscape and the economics of data centers.
As a universal processor, Prodigy runs old x86, ARM, and RISC-V binaries in addition to its native Prodigy code. With a single, homogeneous and highly efficient processor architecture, Prodigy delivers industry-leading performance on data center, AI and HPC workloads, outperforming the fastest Xeon processors while consuming 10 times less power. energy (core vs. core), as well as NVIDIA’s fastest GPU in HPC, as well as AI training and inference, according to the company.
Prodigy’s 3X lower cost per MIPS and 10X less core power translates to 4X less total cost of ownership (TCO) of the data center, delivering billions of dollars in annual savings to hyperscalers. Because Prodigy is the only processor in the world that can switch between datacenter, AI, and HPC workloads, unused servers can be used as AI or HPC cloud resources without CAPEX because the servers have already been written off. Prodigy will also enable Edge for IoT developers to leverage its low power / high performance, along with its simple programming model, to deliver efficient high performance AI to the edge.
Those interested in becoming early adoption partners in order to gain access to the Prodigy emulation system can register at https://www.tachyum.com/
About Tachyum
Tachyum is disrupting the data center, HPC and AI markets by delivering the world’s first universal processor, with industry-leading performance, cost and power, across all three compute domains, while enabling data centers to data to exceed the capacity of the human brain. Tachyum, co-founded by Dr Radoslav Danilak, and its flagship Prodigy, begin high-throughput production in 2021, with software emulations and an FPGA-based emulator available to early adopters. He is targeting a $ 50 billion market, growing at 20% per year. With data centers currently consuming more than 3% of the planet’s electricity, and expected to reach 10% by 2025, the Ultra-Low Power Prodigy Universal Processor is essential if we are to continue to double global capacity. data centers every 4 years. Tachyum is one of the founding members of I4DI (Innovations for Digital Infrastructure), which will build the world’s fastest AI supercomputer in Slovakia, presenting Prodigy. Tachyum has offices in USA and Slovakia, EU. For more information, visit https://www.tachyum.com/.
Source: Tachyum
