Huawei Atlas 950 SuperPoD Packs 1,024 Ascend Chips At WAIC
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Maybe I should have come What is, I think, underappreciated is that developing all these supernode systems from scratch isn't cheap (even in chyna, with 996 involution slave labor stolen IP etc etc). This is monumental R&D, NVIDIA pays billions for it. Do they all expect volume?
Easily the most impressive thing I saw at WAIC, and honestly the main reason I went to the conference in the first place. I see robots and AI companies all the time. I don’t get to see SuperPoDs very often. This is Huawei’s new Atlas 950 SuperPoD behind me & @pstAsiatech. Also yes, it’s spelled PoD, not “pod.” It refers to point of delivery and comes from networking terminology.) 1,024 Ascend 950 chips in one turnkey AI system. Huawei says the architecture scales to 8,192 chips as a single logical computer, and then you can build clusters of these to half a million chips. The scale is kind of nuts. Also noticed basically everyone is selling some version of this now. Huawei has SuperPoD. MetaX and Biren have SuperNodes. NVIDIA has DGX SuperPOD and NVL72. ZTE has its own integrated AI computing platform. Nobody’s really selling chips anymore. They’re selling the whole AI computer. Chips, networking, interconnect, software, management … everything is integrated
reminder that Mellanox (and thus Unit 8200) is supposed to be what defeats China, because Israeli interconnect is godtech
The US will win the AI race because of the Israeli tech built by the (non-portable for assabiyah reasons) IDF Unit 8200, as evidenced by Mellanox and Vera Rubin. Psychotic https://twitter.com/boom_tentpeg/status/2035333989435580439