Tim, Thanks for the link. While the initial discussion, from that link, seemed a little light on some of the details, I found a very good article, that seems to dive into the guts of the new TELUM II processor and Spyre card.
https://www.servethehome.com/ibm-telum-ii-processor-and-spyre-ai-updates-at-hot-chips-2024/ A few of the other articles I read, concentrate on the enhancements on the Telum II related to cache size, and specifically the AI accelerator performance, however the DPU has seemed to be glossed over. I would put it out there, that those authors may not understand the Z platform and how it does things, internally (and yes, this has been discussed ad nauseum over the years - so no need to go into that arena again, please). This article (above) seems to discuss it more, and it's very interesting. If I am reading it correctly, is the DPU bringing, onto the Telum II processor chip, many of the functions, that we normally associate with the I/O subsystem? It talks about a reduction in power usage by 70% in I/O handling, and direct access to the PCIe slots, so I am inferring, in my mind, that it is doing exactly that. Very cool. Also, nice to see that the core speed, of the full speed processor is going from 5.2 Ghz on the Telum up to 5.5 Ghz on the Telum II. Overall, very cool improvements to the Z family processor. Peter On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 08:15:27 +0000, Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> wrote: >IBM presented many details about the IBM Telum? II Processor (with a >completely new Data Processing Unit) and IBM Spyre? Accelerator yesterday at >the Hot Chips 2024 conference. > >https://newsroom.ibm.com/ai-on-z > >????? >Timothy Sipples >Senior Architect >Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity >IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific >sipp...@sg.ibm.com > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
