NVIDIA introduces A100 PCIe GPU accelerator card with water cooling In the press release, NVIDIA said that at present, water-cooling technology is gradually paid attention to in the field of servers and supercomputers. In view of the market demand, NVIDIA will take the lead in launching A100 PCIe GPU accelerator card with water-cooling architecture, and H100 PCIe water-cooling accelerator card will be launched later.
Today, NVIDIA released its first data center PCIe GPU accelerator card using direct chip cooling, thus increasing its sustainable development efforts. Equinix is certifying its data centers to use A100 80GB PCIe water-cooled GPUs as part of a comprehensive approach to sustainable cooling and heat capture. GPU is now providing samples and will be fully available this summer.
NVIDIA said that compared with the traditional CPU HPC system, the GPU heterogeneous acceleration HPC system with air cooling design has increased the energy efficiency by 20 times. If the pure CPU architecture system of global AI and HPC system is converted into GPU acceleration system, it will be enough to save 10 megawatt hours of power and provide 1.4 million households with power consumption for a year.
Equinix, a partner dedicated to carbon neutralization, is deploying GPU accelerator card with water cooling architecture. Compared with the original air cooling system architecture, it can save 30% of energy under the same working load. Compared with the current 1.6 PEU (optimized power use efficiency) value of air cooling technology data center, the liquid cooling system can further reach 1.15 pue value, which is closer to the 1.0 pue value pursued by environmental sustainability; At the same time, the liquid cooling cooling architecture only needs to use a single slot. Compared with the air cooling design of double slots, it can double the computing power per unit space.
NVIDIA's system partners have launched HGX A100 system based on A100 PCIe liquid cooling accelerator card, and will provide liquid cooling A100 PCIe single card in the third quarter. It is expected to launch HGX H100 system based on H100 PCIe liquid cooling in the fourth quarter of this year, and provide liquid cooling H100 PCIe accelerator card in early 2023.
At least a dozen system manufacturers plan to integrate these GPUs into their products later this year. They include ASUS, Huaqing frame, Foxconn industrial Internet, gigabyte, Xinhua III, Inspur, Yingyeda, nettrix, QCT, supermicro, Weiying technology and xfusion.
Regulations on energy efficiency standards are being developed in Asia, Europe and the United States, which has also prompted banks and other large data center operators to evaluate liquid cooling. This technology is not limited to data centers. Cars and other systems need it to cool high-performance systems embedded in confined spaces.