The Next Big Thing: Introducing IPU-POD128 and IPU-POD256

Posted by EvgeniyZh on Friday October 22, 2021 @11:04AM
from the graphcore.ai dept.

https://www.graphcore.ai/posts/the-next-big-thing-introducing-ipu-pod128-and-ipu-pod256

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Re:The Next Big Thing: Introducing IPU-POD128 and IPU-POD256 by cracker_jacks on Friday October 22, 2021 @03:24PM (#28961491)

What's the market Graphcore is going for here?

Even their own performance releases are not really favorable over nvidia's current offerings. This is definitely not enough to justify the risk of moving to a new hardware/software stack:

https://semianalysis.com/graphcore-looks-like-a-complete-fai...

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Re:The Next Big Thing: Introducing IPU-POD128 and IPU-POD256 by my123 on Friday October 22, 2021 @11:37AM (#28958535)

Same chips as before but in bigger configs. Not big news IMO.

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Re:The Next Big Thing: Introducing IPU-POD128 and IPU-POD256 by ChrisArchitect on Friday October 22, 2021 @01:52PM (#28960324)

[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28949570

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