Tachyum Demonstrates System Management on Prodigy Universal Processor

Tachyum^® today announced that it has successfully demonstrated System Management on its Prodigy^® Universal Processor, validating its ability to run system-wide functions such as power management, system hardware control, or proprietary OEM-designed code.

System Management covers privileged System Management Mode (SMM) level, dedicated System Management Interrupts (SMI) and SMM firmware. In x86-based processors, SMM exists as a special-purpose operating mode with a higher effective privilege level than the hypervisor. SMM is used only by SMM firmware, not by application software or general-purpose systems software.

Validating SMM shows that Tachyum’s Prodigy is capable of running in this distinct and isolated processor environment, independently of the operating system and transparently to executive and software applications. SMM uses separate on-chip protected static RAM (SRAM), and is installed by the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).

Among SMM drivers, SMI is critical for managing key hardware tasks and other system support functions like energy and thermal management, initializing memory, and adjusting clock speed.

“SMM and SMI are essential components of a mature processor architecture, and this demonstration signals that Prodigy is able to perform crucial management functions,” said Dr. Radoslav Danilak, founder and CEO of Tachyum. “As we advance towards commercialization of Prodigy, Tachyum’s engineers continue to validate that Prodigy offers the proper features for demanding enterprise and data center installations.”

The first version of Prodigy will implement an SMM-like environment with new features and improvements, and a software interface for SMM. Tachyum has also developed a separate privilege mode for SMM to provide availability, safety, and isolation for SMM and SMI.

Tachyum’s demonstration, available in a video at https://youtu.be/r0EYj6zy5Tc , shows Prodigy performing the SMM function of reading the CPU temperature and configuring thermal zones from Tachyum Linux OS. Tachyum’s SMM reads the value of CPU temperature from the embedded HW sensor, validates it, and takes action to protect the CPU. The Linux kernel can configure the temperature thresholds and read actual temperature via the SMM software interface, similar to OS system calls.

As a Universal Processor offering industry-leading performance for all workloads, Prodigy-powered data center servers can seamlessly and dynamically switch between computational domains (such as AI/ML, HPC, and cloud) with a single homogeneous architecture. By eliminating the need for expensive dedicated AI hardware and dramatically increasing server utilization, Prodigy reduces CAPEX and OPEX significantly while delivering unprecedented data center performance, power, and economics. Prodigy integrates 256 high-performance custom-designed 64-bit compute cores to deliver up to 18x the highest performing GPU for AI applications, 3x the performance of the highest-performing x86 processors for cloud workloads, and up to 8x that of the highest performing GPU for HPC.

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About Tachyum

Tachyum is transforming the economics of AI, HPC, public and private cloud workloads with Prodigy, the world’s first Universal Processor. Prodigy unifies the functionality of a CPU, a GPU, and a TPU in a single processor to deliver industry-leading performance, cost and power efficiency for both specialty and general-purpose computing. As global data center emissions continue to contribute to a changing climate, with projections of their consuming 10 percent of the world’s electricity by 2030, the ultra-low power Prodigy is positioned to help balance the world’s appetite for computing at a lower environmental cost. Tachyum received a major purchase order from a US company to build a large-scale system that can deliver more than 50 exaflops performance, which will exponentially exceed the computational capabilities of the fastest inference or generative AI supercomputers available anywhere in the world today. Tachyum has offices in the United States, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. For more information, visit https://www.tachyum.com/.

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