HeavyDB on GH200 (ARM)

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gggg

• March 13, 2024 21:40

Would it be possible to install HeavyDB on a Nvidia GH200 considering it runs an ARM CPU?

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  Candido Dessanti

  • March 25, 2024 18:43

  Hi,

  We are still working on an ARM build of our software. Porting the software to Arm shouldn't be too hard.

  I've already done this recently using a graviton and a T4G Tesla card.
  
  I'll get back to you when I have some news about it, but probably the fastest way is to use a script to compile the OS version on an ARM server and then run on GH-200. 
  
  Candido

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  Candido Dessanti

  • April 30, 2024 10:44

  Hello,

  We are currently testing an experimental version of HeavyDB that utilizes the interconnection of GH-200's CPU 2 GPU, resulting in significantly improved performance. The new version allows us to run queries that can use more than double the GPU's memory capacity with only a reasonable impact on performance. However, the degree of impact depends on whether the queries are limited by bandwidth or other factors like concurrency. We have observed little to no impact on performance when a query is limited by factors other than bandwidth, even if all the data is stored outside of the GPU memory.
  
  This is just a quick update, I'll come back when I'll have some news about an official ARM release of the software

  I hope this helps!

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  gggg

  • April 30, 2024 13:03

  Hi Candido,

  That's great news considering Nvidia recently released the Blackwell architecture which contains an NVLink-c2c same as the Grace Hopper on the GH200. These servers will probably become more popular and I think software such as HeavyDB will benefit if they optimize for them. Looking forward to testing that official release! Thank you for the quick feedback!

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