Intel’s 10nm Ice Lake-SP (2S) Servers Spotted With Up To 8 NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs & PCIe Gen 4.0 Support
https://wccftech.com/intel-10nm-ice-lake-sp-xeon-cpu-nvidia-ampere-a100-gpu-7nm-servers-spotted/
With the launch of Intel's Ice Lake-SP Xeon CPUs approaching first, Inspur has revealed server racks that support the said Xeon CPUs along with up to 16 NVIDIA Ampere A100 HPC GPUs. This will put Intel on par with AMD who had landed the first and official design win for NVIDIA's DGX A100 server that utilizes EPYC Rome CPUs, taking full advantage of the PCIe Gen 4 protocol which Intel will introduce with its Ice Lake Xeon chips later this year.
While the official DGX A100 reference design uses EPYC Rome CPUs from AMD, various other OEMs will be designing their A100 servers around both, Intel's Xeon and AMD's EPYC platforms. Inspur, a manufacturer of data center and cloud computing servers has listed its upcoming AI servers which utilize NVIDIA's A100 Tensor Core GPUs.