{"id":163844,"date":"2023-05-14T10:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T15:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/nvidia-h100-tensor-core-gpu"},"modified":"2023-05-14T10:22:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T15:22:26","slug":"nvidia-h100-tensor-core-gpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/nvidia-h100-tensor-core-gpu","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nvidia-h100-tensor-core-gpu3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case anyone is wondering how advances like ChatGPT are possible while Moore\u2019s Law is dramatically slowing down, here\u2019s what is happening:<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia\u2019s latest chip, the H100, can do 34 teraFLOPS of FP64 which is the standard 64-bit standard that supercomputers are ranked at. But this same chip can do 3,958 teraFLOPS of FP8 Tensor Core. FP8 is 8 times less precise than FP64. Also, Tensor Cores accelerate matrix operations, particularly matrix multiplication and accumulation, which are used extensively in deep learning calculations.<\/p>\n<p>So by specializing in operations that AI cares about, the speed of the computer is increased by over 100 times!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A massive leap in accelerated compute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case anyone is wondering how advances like ChatGPT are possible while Moore\u2019s Law is dramatically slowing down, here\u2019s what is happening: Nvidia\u2019s latest chip, the H100, can do 34 teraFLOPS of FP64 which is the standard 64-bit standard that supercomputers are ranked at. But this same chip can do 3,958 teraFLOPS of FP8 Tensor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}