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BOW POD

Built for multi-tenancy and concurrency, Bow Pod64 is a powerful, flexible building block for the enterprise datacenter, private or public cloud. With cloud-native capabilities to support multiple users and mixed workloads across multiple smaller VPods (Virtual Pods) or used as one single system for large training workloads Bow Pod64 gives you faster time to business value for today's models and unlocks a new world of new AI applications.

Also available as a Bow Pod128 system

  • Ease of use & flexibility
  • Faster time to business value
  • Support from AI experts so you're up and running fast
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Bow Pod systems let you break through barriers to unleash entirely new breakthroughs in machine intelligence with real business impact. Get ready for production with Bow Pod64 and take advantage of a new approach to operationalise your AI projects.

Bow Pod64 delivers ultimate flexibility to maximise all available space and power in your datacenter, no matter how it is provisioned. 22.4 petaFLOPS of AI compute for both training and inference to develop and deploy on the same powerful system.

Server Partners: Atos, Inspur, Supermicro, Dell and Lenovo

“At Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, we are pushing the boundaries of machine learning and graph neural networks to tackle scientific problems that have been intractable with existing technology. For instance, we are pursuing applications in computational chemistry and cybersecurity applications. This year, Graphcore systems have allowed us to significantly reduce both training and inference times from days to hours for these applications. This speed up shows promise in helping us incorporate the tools of machine learning into our research mission in meaningful ways. We look forward to extending our collaboration with this newest generation technology.”  

Sutanay Choudhury, Deputy Director

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Natural Language Processing

Language

Natural language processing (NLP) delivers business value today for finance firms to biotech leaders, scale-ups to hyper-scalers, improving internet search sentiment analysis, fraud detection, chatbots, drug discovery and more. Choose Bow Pod64 whether you are running large BERT models in production or starting to explore GPT-class models or GNNs.
Computer Vision

Vision

State-of-the-art computer vision is driving breakthroughs in medical imaging, claims processing, cosmology, smart cities, self-driving cars, and more. World-leading performance for traditional powerhouses like ResNet50 and high-accuracy emerging models like EfficientNet are ready to run on Bow Pod64.
Scientific Research

Scientific Research

National labs, universities, research institutes and supercomputing centres around the world are making scientific breakthroughs on Bow Pod64 by maximising the IPU's fine-grained compute to deploy emerging models like Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and probabilistic models, explore sparsity and make the convergence of HPC and AI a reality.

Performance

World-class results whether you want to explore innovative models and new possibilities, faster time to train, higher throughput or performance per TCO dollar.

Bow Pod vs IPU-POD Classic: EfficientNet-B4

EfficientNet Training Throughput

Bow Pod Platforms | Preliminary Results (Pre-SDK2.5) | G16-EfficientNet-B4 Training

EXTENSIVE ECOSYSTEM

Software tools and integrations to support every step of the AI lifecycle from development to deployment to improve productivity and AI infrastructure efficiency. And just make it easier to use.

tensorflow pytorch lightning paddlepaddle keras onnx huggingface slurm kubernetes openBMC redfish prometheus grafana openstack vmware
Processors 64x Bow IPUs
1U blade units 16x Bow-2000 machines
Memory

57.6GB In-Processor-Memory™

Up to 4.1TB Streaming Memory™
Performance 22.4 petaFLOPS FP16.16
5.6 petaFLOPS FP32
IPU Cores 94,208
Threads 565,248
Host-Link 100 GE RoCEv2
Software

Poplar

TensorFlow, PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning, Keras, Paddle Paddle, Hugging Face, ONNX, HALO

OpenBMC, Redfish DTMF, IPMI over LAN, Prometheus, and Grafana

Slurm, Kubernetes

OpenStack, VMware ESG
System Weight 450kg + Host servers and switches
System Dimensions 16U + Host servers and switches
Host Server Selection of approved host servers from Graphcore partners
Storage Selection of approved systems from Graphcore partners
Thermal Air-Cooled

SDK BENCHMARKS

For more performance results, visit our Performance Results page

Explore

BOW POD

Ideal for exploration, the Bow Pod16 gives you all the power, performance and flexibility you need to fast-track your IPU prototypes and speed from pilot to production. Bow Pod16 is your easy-to-use starting point for building better, more innovative AI solutions with IPUs whether you're focused on language and vision, exploring GNNs and LSTMs or creating something entirely new.

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Grow

BOW POD

When you're ready to grow your AI compute capacity at supercomputing scale, choose Bow Pod256, a system designed for production deployment in your enterprise datacenter, private or public cloud. Experience massive efficiency and productivity gains when large language training runs are completed in hours or minutes instead of months and weeks. Bow Pod256 delivers AI at scale.

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