LAS VEGAS, March 23, 2021 – Tachyum Inc. today announced the upcoming availability of its prototype Prodigy universal processor, built using Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) emulation boards. The hardware prototype is currently being tested internally before being made available to the first users.
Tachyum’s Prodigy emulation system has been developed in-house to provide the best possible accuracy and performance for our engineers to verify the final Prodigy design, and for our customers to start evaluating and porting their own software. application to native Prodigy code. The hardware emulator consists of multiple FPGA and I / O boards connected by cables in a rack. The size of the processor cores FPGA board is 14.5 inches by 16 inches (368.3 mm x 406.4 mm). The 24-layer board is 0.110 inch (2.8mm) thick and has 5,948 components on the printed circuit board (PCB) on both sides. The single board with 4 FPGAs emulates 8 full processor cores, including fixed and floating point vector and matrix processing units. FPGA prototypes, with multiple boards connected by cables, enable full-chip, half-chip, and smaller emulation systems ideal for native Prodigy software development, hardware compatibility testing, and performance benchmarking.
Customers will be able to use Prodigy’s fully functional FPGA emulation for product evaluation, performance measurement, as well as software development, debugging and compatibility testing. Fully functional chip emulation (in FPGA-based hardware) is usually the last step before chip removal when the final design is submitted for fabrication in silicon. The Prodigy FPGA Emulation System will help customers smooth the Prodigy adoption curve into their existing or new data center and / or HPC systems that demand high performance, high utilization and low power consumption.
Fully assembled FPGA boards are being tested at Tachyum’s offices in Santa Clara, California. Internal tests include:
- Continuity and insulation tests
- Electrical tests (power, etc.)
- Emulation features
- Integration with DDR-IO card
- Hardware and software integration
- Starting the operating system and
- Application testing
- Benchmarking performance
Some Prodigy FPGA systems will have test chip connectors for DDR5, PCIE 5.0, 112 GB chip-to-chip interconnect, PHY and PLL to eliminate risk.
“Finally, being at the point where industry experts understand beyond a reasonable doubt that Tachyum is able to complete its design in the coming months and bring the product to market this year is a great satisfaction for customers,†the company, our employees, our supporters and the main investor IPM. Group, who trusted us from the start. The goal for the next quarter is to make the DFT for manufacturing testing, verification, research and bug fixing typical of this last stage of the design, â€said Dr. Radoslav Danilak, Founder and CEO of Tachyum. “With each step taken and each step taken, we are getting closer and closer to a system that many thought was years away from reality, if not completely impossible. Having a physical FPGA prototype in-house means we’re knocking on data centers and letting them know that it won’t be long before they can experience for themselves this year the significant improvements in performance, power consumption, server usage and space. requirements they need to deliver next generation solutions for the benefit of mankind.
Tachyum’s Prodigy 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 form, 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 challenges. Prodigy’s ability to seamlessly switch between these different workloads dramatically changes the competitive landscape and the economics of data centers.
In hyperscale data centers, Prodigy dramatically improves compute performance, power consumption, hardware (server) utilization, and space requirements, compared to existing processor chips currently provisioned. As the world’s first universal processor, it also runs legacy x86, ARM, and RISC-V binaries in addition to its native Prodigy code. With a unique 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. (core vs. core), as well as NVIDIA’s fastest GPU in HPC, as well as AI training and inference. Only 125 Prodigy HPC racks can provide 32 tensor EXAFLOPS.
Prodigy’s 3x lower cost per MIPS and 10x lower core power translates into 4x lower 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.
About Tachyum
Tachyum is building an AI supercomputer to power data centers more powerful than the human brain. Its soon-to-launch Prodigy universal processor delivers performance, cost and power benefits to a $ 50 billion market that is expected to grow 20 percent per year. Customers and pioneering partners can start using Prodigy software emulation systems today, which will allow them to evolve their existing applications that require high performance and low power consumption to function optimally on Prodigy processors, which will ship in volume later this year, with fully functional FPGA emulation system boards also available for pre-order. To learn more, visit https://www.tachyum.com.
Source: Tachyum
