A week rich in eventsfor NVIDIA which announced the release in 2023 of an ARM processor, the first of its design. Called Grace, it will offer ten times more performance to servers compared to the most powerful current servers. Supercomputers designed by the Swiss Center for Scientific Computing and the Department of Energy at Los Alamos National Laboratory will use the new processor.

Grace is a highly specialized ARM processor, targeting workloads such as next-generation NLP model training that depends on several hundred billion parameters. When combined with NVIDIA GPUs, the ARM Grace processor will provide 10 times the performance of existing NVIDIA DGX systems.

The processor is designed to meet the computational requirements of the world’s most advanced applications including natural language processing, recommender systems, and supercomputers that analyse huge datasets requiring both ultra-fast computing performance and massive memory capacity.

To develop Grace, NVIDIA engineers will adapt NVLink technology to achieve 900GB/s of bandwidth between Grace and the GPUs, a 14-fold increase over what currently exists. In addition, the graphics giant has managed to achieve a memory bandwidth (LPDDR5 EEC) of up to 500GB/s. Finally, the processor will contain a Neoverse chip, which is much more powerful than the Nvidia GPU and x86 chipset.

Translated from NVIDIA annonce son nouveau processeur ARM “Grace” pour 2023