Re:Google's First Tensor Processing Unit: Architecture
by kkielhofner on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @09:44AM
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I work with Frontier and ORNL/OLCF. They have had and continue to have issues with AMD/ROCm but yes, they do of course get excellent support from AMD. The entire team at OLCF is incredible as well (obviously) and they do amazing work.
Frontier certainly has some unique quirks but the documentation is online[0] and most of these quirks are inherent to the kinds of fundamental issues you'll see on any system in the space (SLURM, etc).
However, most of the issues are fundamentally ROCm and you'll run into them on any MIxxx anywhere. I run into them frequently with supported and unsupported consumer gear all the way up.
Frontier certainly has some unique quirks but the documentation is online[0] and most of these quirks are inherent to the kinds of fundamental issues you'll see on any system in the space (SLURM, etc).
However, most of the issues are fundamentally ROCm and you'll run into them on any MIxxx anywhere. I run into them frequently with supported and unsupported consumer gear all the way up.
[0] - https://docs.olcf.ornl.gov/systems/frontier_user_guide.html