Accelerated Computing Platform
Existing HPC, AI, and graph analytics compute solutions are no longer “good enough”.
They are expensive, hard to program, power hungry, and only work for limited applications.
The Third Wave of Accelerated Computing is Here
Thunderbird for HPC, AI, Graph Analytics
SOLUTIONS
Enabling tomorrow’s innovation todayAddressing the Need to Accelerate All HPC & AI Software
What customers always wanted…not “yet another GPU”
Thunderbird Datacenter Impact
Significant datacenter TCO savings and carbon footprint reduction
One Thunderbird board has more CPU cores than an entire rack of standard Intel or AMD severs!
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Lower cost: less real estate, servers, networking, power, cooling
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Less complexity, interconnects, points of failure
Thunderbird has >20X CPU cores vs. Intel or AMD server chips
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Intel and AMD CPUs: Up to 256 general purpose x86 cores per server board
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Thunderbird: 6,144 high-performance / low-power RISC-V cores per add-in board (all 64-bit)
Thunderbird Compute Accelerator Overview
InspireSemi’s powerful Thunderbird “supercomputer cluster-on-a-chip” accelerated computing architecture is based on an array of thousands of modern, efficient, and powerful 64-bit CPU cores, tightly integrated with high speed memory and networking. It is an ideal and versatile platform for high-performance computing (HPC), AI/machine learning, graph analytics, and other compute-intensive applications.
Leveraging the modern, open standard RISC-V CPU ISA (instruction set architecture) provides access to an established, thriving ecosystem of software, libraries, and development tools. Our developer-friendly all-CPU programming model eliminates vendor lock-in and greatly simplifies software development, QA, and maintenance, since there is no need to support multiple and often proprietary software stacks (e.g.- x86, CUDA, ROCM, FPGAs, etc.). This also enables the combination of HPC + AI on one platform for deeper insights and bigger advancements.
Our highly optimized, high speed mesh network fabric provides extreme bandwidth and low latency communications between cores. Tightly integrated with the CPU cores and distributed memory, it removes crucial bottlenecks from applications that depend on close cooperation between many independent threads. Arrays of up to 256 Thunderbird chips connect seamlessly via high-speed serial transceivers.
Compared to a modern datacenter GPU, Thunderbird provides all the raw computational power with far broader application to real world codes. Our advanced network fabric enables far better cooperation between cores. And our roots in extremely power-sensitive blockchain computing enable us to provide this performance with considerably higher energy efficiency than leading GPU’s.
Raw performance: 24 TFLOPS (FP64)
Energy efficiency: 75 GFLOPS/Watt (FP64)
Utilization: network reduces latency 10x
Deterministic + Predictable Performance
Value: exceptional Performance/$
- Thousands of powerful 64-bit RISC-V superscalar CPU cores can leverage an established, thriving software ecosystem to support broader range of applications than GPUs
- Developer-friendly CPU programming model greatly simplifies software & algorithm development, eliminates vendor lock-in, and provides maximum versatility for HPC, AI, Graph Analytics, and compute-intensive applications
- Dedicated acceleration for several cryptography algorithms
- Ample high-speed SRAM memory tightly integrated with processor cores
- Extreme-bandwidth, low-latency on-chip mesh network fabric for both inter- and intra-chip connectivity, up to 256 Thunderbird chip
- Deterministic + predictable performance addresses applications GPUs cannot, including real-time and real-safe computing
- Support for large amounts of onboard LPDDR memory, NVMe storage, PCIe, and 10Gb ethernet
- Best in class energy efficiency
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MISSION
Setting New standards of performance, energy efficiency, versatility, and ease of programming
InspireSemi provides revolutionary high-performance, energy-efficient accelerated computing solutions for High-Performance Computing (HPC), AI, graph analytics, and other compute-intensive workloads. The Thunderbird “supercomputer-cluster-on-a-chip” is a disruptive, next-generation datacenter accelerator designed to address multiple underserved and diversified industries, including financial services, computer-aided engineering, energy, climate modeling, and life sciences & drug discovery. Based on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture, InspireSemi’s solutions leverage an established and thriving software ecosystem.