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Abstract
The ThinkSystem Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 accelerator delivers unprecedented visual computing performance for the data center and provides revolutionary neural graphics, compute, and AI capabilities to accelerate the most demanding visual computing workloads.
This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 and its key features, specifications, and compatibility. This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 and consider its use in IT solutions.
Introduction
The Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 is designed for AI inference acceleration, and addresses the unique requirements in the cloud, including power efficiency, scale, process node advancements, and signal processing. The AI 100 enables data centers to run inference on the edge cloud faster and more efficiently. Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 is designed to be a leading solution for datacenters who increasingly rely on infrastructure at the edge-cloud.
The following figure shows the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100.
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The ThinkSystem Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 accelerator is offered on ThinkEdge servers to enable customers to deploy AI workloads at the edge of their network. The AI 100 supports over 150 neural networks across multiple categories, including image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, and natural language processing.
Part number information
The following table shows the part numbers for the GPU.
| Part number | Feature code | Description | Vendor part number |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4X67A84009 | BS49 | ThinkSystem Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 | QAIC-100P-0-MPA001-MT-01-0-BE |
The option part number includes the following:
- One Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 (PCIe HHHL-Standard)
- Full height (3U) and Low Profile (2U) adapter brackets
- Documentation
Features
The Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 accelerator supports more than 150 deep learning networks, with strong emphasis on computer vision use cases and natural language processing.
Target applications include:
- Image classification
- Object detection and monitoring
- Semantic segmentation
- Face detection
- Point cloud
- Pose estimation
- Natural language processing (NLP)
- Recommendation systems
The Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 accelerator and accompanying software development kits (SDKs) offer superior power and performance capabilities to meet the growing inference needs of Cloud Data Centers, Edge, and other machine learning (ML) applications. The Cloud AI 100 card is powered by the AIC100 system-on-chip (SoC), which is designed for ML inference workloads.
The Qualcomm Apps and Platform SDKs provide the ability to compile, optimize, and run deep learning models from popular frameworks including:
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- ONNX
- Caffe
- Caffe2
Technical specifications
The Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 has the following specifications:
- Low profile form factor
- PCIe 4.0 x8 host interface
- Supports data types: FP32, FP16, INT16, INT8
- Security features include Hardware Root of Trust, Secure boot, Firmware rollback protection
The following table lists the processing specifications and performance of the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100.
Server support
The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
Operating system support
The following table lists the supported operating systems.
Tip: These tables are automatically generated based on data from Lenovo ServerProven.
Regulatory approvals
The Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 has the following regulatory approvals:
- International: IEC 62368-1, EN62368-1 2nd, and 3rd Ed.
- United States of America: FCC
- Canada: ICES-003
- EU/UK: EN 55032, EN55024, EN55035, EN 61000-3-2, EN 61000-3-3, EN62368-1 2nd, and 3rd Ed.
- Taiwan: BSMI
- Korea: KN32 / KN35
- Japan: VCCI
- China: CNS 15663, RoHS
- Australia / New Zealand: AS/NZS CISPR 32
- Logos: cUL, FCC, ICES, RCM, VCCI
Operating environment
The Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 has the following operating characteristics:
- Ambient temperature
- Operational: 0°C to 50°C (-5°C to 55°C for short term*)
- Storage: -40°C to 85°C
- Relative humidity:
- Operational: 5-90%
- Storage: 5-93%
Warranty
One year limited warranty. When installed in a Lenovo server, the adapter assumes the server’s base warranty and any warranty upgrades.
Related publications
For more information, refer to these documents:
- ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile GPU Summary:
https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/lp0768-thinksystem-thinkagile-gpu-summary - ServerProven compatibility:
https://serverproven.lenovo.com/ - Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 product page:
https://www.qualcomm.com/products/technology/processors/cloud-artificial-intelligence/cloud-ai-100
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