{"id":87292,"date":"2019-02-01T06:22:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/whats-better-than-40-gpu-based-computers-a-computer-with-40-gpus"},"modified":"2019-02-01T06:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:22:33","slug":"whats-better-than-40-gpu-based-computers-a-computer-with-40-gpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/whats-better-than-40-gpu-based-computers-a-computer-with-40-gpus","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Better Than 40 GPU-based Computers? A Computer With 40 GPUs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whats-better-than-40-gpu-based-computers-a-computer-with-40-gpus2.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture in February, Illinois computer engineering associate professor Rakesh Kumar and his collaborators will make the case for a wafer-scale computer consisting of as many as 40 GPUs. Simulations of this multiprocessor monster sped calculations nearly 19-fold and cut the combination of energy consumption and signal delay more than 140-fold.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Engineers aim to use \u201csilicon interconnect fabric\u201d to build a computer with 40 GPUs on a single silicon wafer.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tech-talk\/semiconductors\/processors\/whats-better-than-40-gpubased-servers-a-server-with-40-gpus\">https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tech-talk\/semiconductors\/processor...th-40-gpus<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture in February, Illinois computer engineering associate professor Rakesh Kumar and his collaborators will make the case for a wafer-scale computer consisting of as many as 40 GPUs. Simulations of this multiprocessor monster sped calculations nearly 19-fold and cut the combination of energy consumption and signal delay [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87292","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\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}