Cambricon Technologies MLU100 C User Manual

MLU100-C Series Intelligent P rocessing Card User Manual

Cambricon, MLU100-C Series Intelligent Processing Card User Manual, 2018-09

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1 2018.09.06 V1.0.1

2 2018.10.22 V1.0.2

3 2018.12.1 V1.0.3 Coding/decoding related descriptions updated.
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Power consumption, heat dissip ation and
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Cambricon, MLU100-C Series Intelligent Processing Card User Manual, 2018-09

Content

1. Product Brief ..........................................................................................................................................4

2. Product specifications...........................................................................................................................5

2.1 Performance specifications .....................................................................................................5

2.2 Software specifications ...........................................................................................................6

2.3 Working Environm ent Specifications ...................................................................................7

2.4 Outli ne Dimension Specifications .........................................................................................7

2.5 Heat Dissipation S pecifications .............................................................................................7

2.6 Power Supplies Specifications ...............................................................................................8

3. Software Development Environment .............................................................................................. 11

4. FCC notes ............................................................................................................................................ 11

Cambricon, MLU100-C Series Intelligent Processing Card User Manual, 2018-09

1. Product Brief

Figure. 1 MLU100-C Series Intelligent Processing Card appearance

Cambricon MLU100-C Series Intelligent Processing Card

The MLU100-C Series is the third generation of Intelligent Processing Cards provided by
Cambricon Technologies, on which populated one p iece of Cambricon MLU100 chip. It can provide
extr emel y high calculating and video co ding/decoding capacities to the Cloud In ference. Compared
with classical general-purpose CPU, MLU100-C can achieve a much bigger Performance/Power­consumption ratio whe n handling the AI (Art ificial Intelligence) related works, which makes it a real
AI-read y processor.

MLU100-C Series Intelligent Processing Card has a theoretical equivalent Peak Processing
Capacity of about 128TOPS(INT8), and it can be integrated into a server or workstation by a PCIe Gen3
x16 single slot. The Card’s heat dissipation solution is passive so the server (workstation) system should
be in charge of providing cooling airflow. T he typica l power co nsumption of the card is about 60-90W.
MLU100-C Series Intelligent Processing Card can support up to 16GB DDR4 with ECC capacity.

Cambricon MLU100-C Series Intelligent Processing Card’s key features:

1. Versatility —— As a u niver sa l inte llige nt pr oces so r, it can support many kinds of Deep Learning

technologies and mult i mo da l int e l l igent p ro c es sin g such as vision, voice and nature language, and

it can be used in a wide range.

2. Sparsification —— By bringing sparsity techno logy into AI chip, it can achieve a theoretical peak

performance of 128TOPS (INT8).

3. High efficiency —— Co mpa re d wit h GP U, it ha s featured special Instruction Set and processor

architecture dedicated to deep learning and AI, so it has much higher Performance/Power-

consumption ratio.

4. Perfect software development environment —— Cambric on Techn ologies provi des a thorough and

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