Nvidia uses Grace CPU to build Isambard 3 supercomputer, which competes with Intel and AMD

CTOnews.com May 22 news, with Intel to restore the unique product line, Nvidia into the CPU field, the current AMD, Intel and Nvidia have begun to enter a further competitive state.

Nvidia announced today that it has partnered with the University of Bristow in the UK to build a new supercomputer using a new generation of Nvidia chips that will compete with Intel and AMD.

At present, Nvidia is already the largest GPU manufacturer in the world. with the growth of users' demand for artificial intelligence jobs, Nvidia chips with top AI acceleration performance are becoming more and more popular and more and more expensive.

Although supercomputing has been loaded with Nvidia GPU chips before, it is usually paired with other vendors' CPU, and the market has been dominated by Intel and AMD for decades. With the continuous evolution and enhancement of Arm chips, some supercalculators begin to use custom chips based on Arm architecture for special computing.

Today, Nvidia has launched a CPU competition called Grace (CTOnews.com note: Nvidia CPU is often referred to as Hopper super chip), which is based on Arm technology.

At a supercomputing conference in Germany, Nvidia announced that it had worked with British researchers and HPE to build a computer called Isambard 3, which is based entirely on its Grace chip and does not use Nvidia GPU, which Nvidia sees as a big step in competing with Intel and AMD.

According to reports, the University of Bristow is using the system for climate science and drug discovery research. "the exciting thing is that the whole system runs at 270kW. This is actually six times the performance and energy efficiency of the university's previous system Isambard 2," said Ian Buck, general manager and vice president of Nvidia accelerated computing.