Comments on: Intel’s “Ponte Vecchio” GPU Better Not Be A Bridge Too Far https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/08/24/intels-ponte-vecchio-gpu-better-not-be-a-bridge-too-far/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:12:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: JayN https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/08/24/intels-ponte-vecchio-gpu-better-not-be-a-bridge-too-far/#comment-165571 Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:37:35 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=139028#comment-165571 Is the Rambo tile the L2 cache? Is there some other cache associated with the Xe-Link?

]]> By: JayN https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/08/24/intels-ponte-vecchio-gpu-better-not-be-a-bridge-too-far/#comment-165570 Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:26:43 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=139028#comment-165570 “We strongly suspect that the Sapphire Rapids Xeon SP with HBM2E memory has Xe Link ports on it, and if it doesn’t, then it should.”

David Blythe said, today in the hotchips presentation on Ponte Vecchio, that the connection between CPU and GPUs is PCIE … not CXL, and that Xe-Link has nothing to do with CXL.

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