IBM launches Spyre AI accelerator card
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IBM launches the Spyre AI accelerator card (also called the IBM Spyre Accelerator), aimed at AI inference scenarios for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems. It is a PCIe expansion card with a single-card power consumption of 75W, delivering over 300 TOPS of compute and equipped with up to 128GB of LPDDR5 memory. IBM also introduced the accompanying Appliance Control Center and Spyre Support Appliance. IBM calls the card a high-performance, high-energy-efficiency PCIe add-in card used to enhance the AI inference capabilities of the aforementioned systems.
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The IBM Spyre Accelerator is a 75W PCIe card for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems with 32 AI accelerator cores built on Samsung's 5nm process, up to 128GB of LPDDR5 memory per card, and over 300 TOPS per card, with ensembles of up to eight cards reaching 1TB of memory. It complements the on-chip Telum-II AI accelerator for multi-model inferencing such as real-time fraud detection and code assistance, and supports on-premises generative AI use cases like Watsonx Code Assistant. IBM also describes the Appliance Control Center for deploying software appliances and the Spyre Support Appliance for managing, monitoring and diagnosing Spyre cards attached to LPARs.
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