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31/2-028 (CERN)

31/2-028

CERN

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Shigeki Misawa (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Andrea Sciabà (CERN), Andrea Chierici (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
Description

Round table to monitor progress on subgroup activities

 

Shigeki Misawa
Zoom Meeting ID
66201610756
Host
Andrea Sciabà
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    • 16:00 16:40
      Preparation for the Spring HEPiX Workshop 40m
      • Talk on the state of the AI/GPU market 30m

        Possible structure for a talk:

        1. Base AI/GPU chips (Technology and market share)
          1. Nvidia
          2. AMD
          3. Cloud proprietary
          4. Other
        2. "Packaging"
          1. "Unified Memory" or on package CPU/GPU
            1. NVidia Grace
            2. AMD Instinct
          2. GPU Clusters
            1. NVidia DGX
        3. Supporting Hardware
          1. NVLink/Infinity Fabric/PCI-e GenX/CLX
            1. Capability
            2. Available Switch hardware
          2. Memory/Storage
            1. LPDDR, HBM
            2. GPU Direct/Flash storage systems
          3. Ultra Ethernet/Infiniband
        4. Software tools
          1. Status of Cuda "monopoly"
          2. Support and penetration of higher level, hardware independent, development environments (e.g. PyTorch)
        5. Impact on carbon footprint and data center infrastructure
      • Survey of General IT Market 10m
        1. General TechWatch working group talk
          1. Semiconductor industry market trends
          2. CPUs and memory [but not GPUs]
          3. Flash, disk and tape storage
          4. Networking
        2. Cooling and power distribution technologies?
    • 16:40 16:50
      Topics for Other Techwatch Presentations: A

      Discussion on topics for Techwatch talks presented at future workshops, meetings, and conferences

    • 16:50 17:00
      AOB 10m