Liquid-Cooled AI PC Runs Fast and Quiet
What you’ll learn:
- What is an AI PC?
- Why is a water-cooled AI PC needed?
- TT-QuietBox AI performance.
The TT-QuietBox developed by Tenstorrent delivers a fast and quiet AI (artificial intelligence) PC based on a 3-GHz AMD EPYC along with four Tenstorrent Blackhole p150c Tensix Processor boards (see figure). Because the entire system is water-cooled, this high-performance system tends to be very quiet, which is no doubt beneficial for a desktop system. These PCs can be utilized for AI development and deployment.
The system is based on an ASRock Rack SIENAD8-2L2T motherboard. The motherboard has two M.2 PCIe Gen 5 x4 slots and four PCIe Gen 8 x8/x16 slots for the Blackhole p150c boards. The system also includes a pair of 10G Ethernet (Intel X710-AT2) and two 1G Ethernet (Intel i210) ports. It’s populated with 512 GB (8x64 GB) of DDR5-4800 ECC RDIMM and 4 TB of NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4. There are two USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-A connections on the front panel and two on the rear panel.
Each Blackhole p150c board packs 120 Tensix cores and 16 RISC-V cores, giving the TT-QuiteBox a total of 480 Tensix cores and 64-bit RISC-V cores. Each board includes QSFP-DD 800G ports, too.
The system runs Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). It supports popular AI frameworks like TensorFlow, JAX, and PyTorch using Tenstorrent’s TT-Forge MLIR-based compiler. More advanced developers can take advantage of the TT-LLK for low-level kernel development.
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