colossus mk2 ipu
Designing the Colossus Mk2 IPU: Simon Knowles at Hot Chips 2021
Addressing the Hot Chips 2021 conference, Graphcore co-founder and CTO Simon Knowles delivers a detailed technical keynote on the design and capabilities of the ColossusTM GC200 Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU). Simon outlines the need for a specialist AI processor as a means of unlocking new directions in AI research. He also discusses the importance of sparse computation as a means of handling the multi-trillion parameter models that will be required for human-level machine intelligence. Design features of the IPU, covered in Simon's talk, include: