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Chip Makers Press For Standardized FP8 Format For AI

July 7, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 1

In March, Nvidia introduced its GH100, the first GPU based on the new “Hopper” architecture, which is aimed at both HPC and AI workloads, and importantly for the latter, supports an eight-bit FP8 floating point processing format. …

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Deep Dive Into Nvidia’s “Hopper” GPU Architecture

March 31, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

With each passing generation of GPU accelerator engines from Nvidia, machine learning drives more and more of the architectural choices and changes and traditional HPC simulation and modeling drives less and less. …

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