IEEE 9.21.2023 meeting moved to Oct 5,2023: RISC-V Thunderbird SOC for HPC and AI Applications
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Doug Norton will give an overview of Austin-based InspireSemi’s disruptive next generation Thunderbird compute accelerator for HPC&AI applications. This RISC-V based “supercomputer-cluster-on-a-chip” packs 1,800 high performance CPU cores (all FP64 double-precision of their own design) onto a single SOC. For maximum/predictable performance and low latency, these CPU cores are all interconnected with their high bandwidth, low-latency mesh interconnect that can connect up to 256 of Thunderbird chips. After 3 years of customer-driven development, the chip is in final verification and will tape out at the end of September to TSMC. He will also share why the team chose to leverage the open hardware RISC-V ISA vs. other options and provide an overview of some of the many initiatives in the thriving RISC-V ecosystem.
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- Date: 05 Oct 2023
- Time: 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM
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- Starts 22 September 2023 01:03 AM
- Ends 04 October 2023 01:03 AM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
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Doug Norton of University of Texas at Austin
RISC-V and the InspireSemi next gen Thunderbird HPC&AI compute accelerator
Doug will give an overview of Austin-based InspireSemi’s disruptive next generation Thunderbird compute accelerator for HPC&AI applications. This RISC-V based “supercomputer-cluster-on-a-chip” packs 1,800 high performance CPU cores (all FP64 double-precision of their own design) onto a single SOC. For maximum/predictable performance and low latency, these CPU cores are all interconnected with their high bandwidth, low-latency mesh interconnect that can connect up to 256 of Thunderbird chips. After 3 years of customer-driven development, the chip is in final verification and will tape out at the end of September to TSMC. He will also share why the team chose to leverage the open hardware RISC-V ISA vs. other options and provide an overview of some of the many initiatives in the thriving RISC-V ecosystem.
Biography:
Doug Norton is the Chief Marketing Officer at Inspire Semiconductor. InspireSemi is an Austin-based company delivering a breakthrough next-generation accelerated computing solution for HPC, AI, and graph analytics applications that leverages the open standard RISC-V ISA (Instruction Se Architecture).
Doug began his career in product development at IBM and moved into the sales & marketing organization to expand IBM’s reach into new engineering/scientific markets. He then went on to various senior leadership positions at Cadence Design Systems, CoWare, Newisys, Virtual Instruments, Nimbix, and other early-stage companies.
Doug is also President of the Society of HPC Professionals (SHPCP), a non-profit, vendor-neutral organization whose purpose is to educate and connect the HPC user community, industry, and academia with state-of-the-art technology and best practices. He is also a contributor to the RISC-V International SIG-HPC as well as the RISC-V marketing and events committees. He serves on the Venture Mentoring Service for the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) at The University of Texas and is a technology and business advisor to HealthClicks. Doug earned a BS in Electrical Engineering cum laude from Missouri University of Science & Technology.
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