Cambricon Technologies MLU100 D User Manual

MLU100-D Series Intelligent P ro cess ing Card Use r Manual

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

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Content

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

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

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

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

2.3 Working Environment Specification s ...................................................................................7

2.4 Outli ne Dimension Specif ications .........................................................................................7

2.5 Heat Dissipation S pecifications .............................................................................................8

2.6 Power Supplies Specifications ...............................................................................................9

3. Software Development Environment .............................................................................................. 10

4. FCC notes ............................................................................................................................................ 10

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

1. Product Brief

Figure. 1 MLU100-D Series Intelligent Processing Card appearance

Cambricon MLU100-D Series Intelligent Processing Card

The MLU100-D Series is the fourth generation of Intelligent Processing Cards provided by
Cambricon Technologies, on which populated one p iece of Cambricon MLU100 chip. It can provide
extr e me l y hig h calculating capacity to the Cloud Inference. Compared with classical genera l-purpose
CPU, MLU100-D can achieve a much bigger Performance/Power-consumption ratio whe n hand lin g
the AI (Artificial Intelligence) related works, which makes it a rea l AI-ready processor.

MLU100-D 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. The typical power consumpt ion of the card is about 40-70W.
MLU100-D Series Intelligent Processing Card can support up to 16GB DDR4 with ECC capacity.

Cambricon MLU100-D Series Intellige nt Processing Card’s key features:

1. Versatility —— As a u niver sal int e llige nt pro cess or, 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

perfo rmanc e of 128TOPS (INT8).

3. High efficiency —— Co mpa red wit h GP U, it ha s featured special Instruction Set and processo r

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

consumption ratio.

4. Perfect software development environment —— Cambric on Technologies provides a thorough and

mature development environment Cambricon NeuWare for MLU100-D series processors, and it has

included a full set of tools such as A pplication Development, Function Debugging and Perf ormance

Optimizations.

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