The Graphcore® C600 IPU-Processor PCIe Card is a high-performance acceleration server card targeted for machine learning inference and training. Powered by the Graphcore Mk2 IPU Processor with FP8 support, the C600 is a dual-slot, full height PCI Express Gen4 card designed for mounting in industry standard server chassis to accelerate machine intelligence workloads.
Up to eight C600 IPU-Processor PCIe Cards can be networked together using IPU-Link™ high-bandwidth interconnect cables, delivering enhanced IPU compute capability.
## Product Specs
| Name | Description |
| :-----| :-----|
| IPU Processor | Graphcore Mk2 IPU Processor with FP8 support |
| IPU-Cores™ | 1,472 IPU-Cores, each one a high-performance processor capable of multi-thread, independent code execution |
| In-Processor Memory™ | Each IPU-Core is paired with fast, local, tightly-coupled In-Processor Memory. The C600 accelerator includes 900MB of In-Processor Memory |
| Compute | Up to 560 teraFLOPS of FP8 compute <br> Up to 280 teraFLOPS of FP16 compute <br> Up to 70 teraFLOPS of FP32 compute |
| System Interface | Dual PCIe Gen4 8-lane interfaces |
| Thermal Solution | Passive |
| Form Factor | PCIe full-height/length; double-slot |
| IPU-Link™ | Support 32 lanes, 128 GB/s bandwidth (64 GB/s in each direction) IPU-Links |
| TDP | 185W |
| Auxiliary Power Supply | 8-pin |
| Quality Level | Server grade |
For more information of the Graphcore® C600, please refer to [C600 cards](https://docs.graphcore.ai/en/latest/hardware.html#c600-cards).
# PopRT
PopRT is a high-performance inference framework specifically for Graphcore IPUs. It is responsible for deeply optimizing the trained models, generating executable programs that can run on the Graphcore IPUs, and performing low-latency, high-throughput inference.
You can get PopRT and related documents from [graphcore/PopRT](https://graphcore.github.io/PopRT/1.4.0/).
Docker images are provided at [graphcorecn/poprt](https://hub.docker.com/r/graphcorecn/poprt).
# Models supported
| Model name | Precision | QPS | Dataset | Metric name | Metric value | report |
C600 是 Graphcore 为云和数据中心打造的高端推训一体加速卡,主打推理,兼做训练,可以支持各种主流的 AI 应用,在搜索和推荐等业务上别具优势。C600 在提供低延时、高吞吐量的同时不损失精度,帮助 AI 开发人员解决”精度与速度难两全”的痛点,为 AI 应用提供解锁 IPU 强大算力的新路径,以满足客户和机器智能从业者对于易用、高效以及更优 TCO 推理产品的强烈需求。