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\nIntroduction 7  \nIntroducing NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU-our 8th Generation Data Center GPU for the Age of Elastic Computing 9  \nNVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU Overview 11  \nNext-generation Data Center and Cloud GPU 11  \nIndustry-leading Performance for AI, HPC, and Data Analytics 12  \nA100 GPU Key Features Summary 14  \nA100 GPU Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) 15  \n40 GB HBM2 and 40 MB L2 Cache 16  \nMulti-Instance GPU (MIG) 16  \nThird-Generation NVLink 16  \nSupport for NVIDIA Magnum IO™ and Mellanox Interconnect Solutions 17  \nPCIe Gen 4 with SR-IOV 17  \nImproved Error and Fault Detection , Isolation, and Containment 17  \nAsynchronous Copy 17  \nAsynchronous Barrier 17  \nTask Graph Acceleration 18  \nNVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU Architecture In-Depth 19  \nA100 SM Architecture 20  \nThird-Generation NVIDIA Tensor Core 23  \nA100 Tensor Cores Boost Throughput 24  \nA100 Tensor Cores Support All DL Data Types 26  \nA100 Tensor Cores Accelerate HPC 28  \nMixed Precision Tensor Cores for HPC 28  \nA100 Introduces Fine-Grained Structured Sparsity 31  \nSparse Matrix Definition 31  \nSparse Matrix Multiply-Accumulate (MMA) Operations 32  \nCombined L1 Data Cache and Shared Memory 33  \nSimultaneous Execution of FP32 and INT32 Operations 34  \nA100 HBM2 and L2 Cache Memory Architectures 34  \nA100 HBM2 DRAM Subsystem 34  \nECC Memory Resiliency 35  \nA100 L2 Cache 35  \nMaximizing Tensor Core Performance and Efficiency for Deep Learning Applications 38  \nStrong Scaling Deep Learning Performance 38  \nNew NVIDIA Ampere Architecture Features Improved Tensor Core Performance 39  \nCompute Capability 44  \nMIG (Multi-Instance GPU) Architecture 45  \nBackground 45  \nMIG Capability of NVIDIA Ampere GPU Architecture 46  \nImportant Use Cases for MIG 46  \nMIG Architecture and GPU Instances in Detail 48  \nCompute Instances 50  \nCompute Instances Enable Simultaneous Context Execution 52  \nMIG Migration 53  \nThird-Generation NVLink 53  \nPCIe Gen 4 with SR-IOV 54  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Modern cloud datacenter workloads require NVIDIA GPU acceleration ................... 8  \nFigure 2. New Technologies in NVIDIA A100....................................................................... 10  \nFigure 3. NVIDIA A100 GPU on new SXM4 Module ............................................................ 12  \nFigure 4. Unified AI Acceleration for BERT-LARGE Training and Inference.......................... 13  \nFigure 5. A100 GPU HPC application speedups compared to NVIDIA Tesla V100 ............... 14  \nFigure 6. GA100 Full GPU with 128 SMs (A100 Tensor Core GPU has 108 SMs) ................20  \nFigure 7. GA100 Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) ................................................................. 22  \nFigure 8. A100 vs V100 Tensor Core Operations................................................................. 25  \nFigure 9. TensorFloat-32 (TF32) ......................................................................................... 27  \nFigure 10. 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