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[joseph pareti]

can one swap Intel Ponte Vecchio GPUs with Nvidia?

The question arises at Argonne, and it is a consequence of the 7nm fabrication delay, recently announced by Intel. See here the full story: https://insidehpc.com/2020/08/exascale-exasperation-why-doe-gave-intel-a-2nd-chance-can-nvidia-gpus-ride-to-auroras-rescue/

The question is whether this (compatibility) argument makes sense or not:

“Here’s the problem, the common thread across all three U.S. DOE exascale deployments is that they’re tightly integrated CPU-GPU complexes,” he said. “So the GPU is not sitting on a PCIe card… It’s not like an APU that you’d find in a laptop where the CPU-GPU is actually on the same package, but it is using the same concept, the native SMP fabric of the CPU is talking directly to the GPU. That’s true for both Ponte Vecchio-Xeon and for AMD’s next generation Radeon (GPU)-Epyc (CPU).”