Nvidia's Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose
NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread LooseGeorge Cozma and Chester LamAug 05, 202661ShareHello you fine Internet folks,NVIDIA has published a 45-page whitepaper explaining Vera, its first server CPU built around the company’s own Olympus core. The whitepaper’s strongest case is the hardware; its weakest case is the story wrapped around it, so let’s pull that story apart.Olympus Deserves Better Than This MarketingBefore getting out the cheese grater, let’s talk about the good stuff. Olympus is a very wide out-of-order Arm core.Its front end can decode ten instructions per cycle and handle up to two taken branches per cycle.
- ▪NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread LooseGeorge Cozma and Chester LamAug 05, 202661ShareHello you fine Internet folks,NVIDIA has published a 45-page whitepaper explaining Vera, its first server CPU built around the company’s own Olympus c
- ▪The whitepaper’s strongest case is the hardware; its weakest case is the story wrapped around it, so let’s pull that story apart.Olympus Deserves Better Than This MarketingBefore getting out the cheese grater, let’s talk about the good stuf
- ▪Olympus is a very wide out-of-order Arm core.Its front end can decode ten instructions per cycle and handle up to two taken branches per cycle.
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NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread LooseGeorge Cozma and Chester LamAug 05, 202661ShareHello you fine Internet folks,NVIDIA has published a 45-page whitepaper explaining Vera, its first server CPU built around the company’s own Olympus core. On paper, Vera is a fascinating chip with an 88-core monolithic compute die, Olympus being a 10-wide Arm v9.2 core that has value prediction, a graph prefetcher, 2 MB of private L2 per core, 164 MB of shared last-level cache, and eight LPDDR5X memory interfaces promising 1.2 TB/s.Unfortunately, NVIDIA also spends a good part of the paper trying to turn those interesting design choices into a morality play about x86.
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