Demos and Presentations

The Tachyum team tested and verified vector operations, 8-bit integer matrix operations for image classification using a Resnet model with custom convolution and linear operators on Prodigy. Among Prodigy’s vector and matrix features are support for a range of data types (FP64, FP32, TF32, BF16, Int8, FP8, FP4 and TAI); 2x1024-bit vector units per core; AI sparsity and super-sparsity support; and no penalty for misaligned vector loads or stores when crossing cache lines.

Tachyum demonstrates enhanced hardware-assisted sampling running on its Prodigy® Universal Processor FPGA Emulation System, marking a breakthrough in the application of advanced compiler optimizations.

Tachyum successfully achieved the desired performance and stability of the Linux operating system and applications running as part of QEMU emulations and will expand all testing and optimization processes of its Prodigy® software distribution to 64KB page size on the FPGA prototype.

Tachyum successfully tested and verified BF16 operational on its Prodigy FPGA, ensuring increased throughput for users’ high-performance processing needs.

Tachyum enabled an Instruction Profiling Unit (IPU), a low overhead way to collect the profile of non-instrumented executed code, to its Prodigy Universal Processor. IPU is used by hyperscalers to profile applications in production execution and recompile code to gain better performance.

Tachyum has moved to 64KB page size as the default of its Prodigy software distribution, a completely integrated software stack and package, which is now available to early adopters and customers as a pre-installed image as part of the beta phase of testing.

Tachyum successfully integrated the BF16 data type into its Prodigy compiler and software distribution, which is now available to early adopters and customers as a pre-installed image as part of beta testing.

Tachyum has advanced the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) to beta and has added RAID 1 capabilities. These latest improvements are a further indication that Tachyum’s Prodigy hardware continues to mature through its development stages prior to its public release.

Tachyum has added a watchdog timer to its Prodigy FPGA emulation system to help detect and recovery from device or system malfunction. The mechanism facilitates automatic correction of temporary hardware faults and prevents errant or malevolent software from disrupting system operations.

Tachyum is testing Git access to its software repositories. This latest advancement is part of the company’s continued commitment to releasing all open-source software in order to provide customers and partners with an easy, straightforward platform for early Prodigy testing ahead of silicon availability while reducing support requirements.

Tachyum has completed testing of full-fledged hardware debugging features of the FPGA prototype of its Prodigy® Universal Processor. This latest capability has undergone testing with GNU Debugger (gdb), a widely used Linux tool for debugging software, to ensure successful operations and is a key component of Progigy’s continued march towards production.

Tachyum added Machine Check and Recovery (MCR) capabilities with the Linux Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) subsystem to the Prodigy® Universal Processor with successful deployment demonstrated as part of the FPGA emulation system.

Tachyum added a Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) to its Prodigy FPGA emulation system, empowering customers and partners with the ability to address bottlenecks and better optimize Prodigy performance for all applications and workloads.

Tachyum has successfully completed vector-based High-Performance LINPACK (HPL) testing using 1kb vectors on the Prodigy FPGA.

LINPACK, a widely used benchmarking program for supercomputers, measures a system’s floating-point computing power by solving a random, dense system of linear equations to determine performance and accuracy. Following scalar LINPACK benchmarks using Prodigy’s IEEE-compliant scalar Floating-Point Unit (FPU), Tachyum has now advanced to vector LINPACK.

The Prodigy software distribution is a completely integrated software stack and package that is ready for deployment “as is.” It is available as a single pre-installed image for Tachyum’s early adopters and customers. Applications have been tested to work out of the box so that customers can immediately start using the reference design. If users encounter any issues during deployment, the software can be quickly and easily restored to its original image.

FreeBSD operating system is now running on the Tachyum’s Prodigy® FPGA prototype as part of efforts to ensure that customer requirements are met prior to tape-out of the world’s first universal processor.

FreeBSD powers modern servers, desktops and embedded platforms in environments that value performance, stability and security. It is the platform of choice for many of the busiest websites and the most pervasive embedded networking and storage devices.

Tachyum has successfully demonstrated a seamless execution of a non-native (x86_64) application under Linux running on the Prodigy FPGA emulation system. This capability will ensure the availability of a wide range of software applications to customers from day one, when the Prodigy Universal Processor becomes generally available next year.

LLVM is the latest addition to an already rich and robust collection of applications, system software, frameworks and libraries running under QEMU emulation and tested by FPGA emulation in advance of Prodigy chip production.

Tachyum has completed porting of all the software necessary for chip validation on the Prodigy FPGA prototype before it is sent for tape out with the successful running of the Xen hypervisor on a QEMU software emulator.

Following porting and demonstrating standalone applications, Tachyum is progressing to full software distribution. It completed integration of BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) and UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) platforms and now it entered beta version. These firmware packages are now functional and integrated into the Prodigy FPGA prototype system.

Prodigy’s design was verified with the most recent version of the industry-standard Berkeley TestFloat, a widely used test for supercomputers that checks the fundamental soundness of a floating-point implementation against the standard Berkeley SoftFloat, testing all modes and special cases of the IEEE Standard.

Tachyum has achieved another milestone on the road to commercialization of Prodigy, the world’s first Universal Processor, as it begins testing key applications on Prodigy FPGA prototypes.

Having recently completed the porting and testing necessary for system-software like UEFI, BMC, bootloader, and operating systems through the toolchains, Tachyum has now completed porting of other applications to test a wide range of workloads on the FPGA prototype.

Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová visited Tachyum’s Bratislava offices to witness first-hand the progress of the Prodigy Universal Processor, which is in the final stage of development. President Čaputová met with Tachyum founder and CEO Radoslav Danilak and a team of engineers to discuss topics such as innovation, green economy, sustainability and attracting top regional talent.

Tachyum’s software team deployed its Prodigy emulation with K3s server, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution ideal for testing; two agents; and NGINX, an open-source reverse proxy server for HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols, as well as a load balancer, HTTP cache, and a web server.

Tachyum has successfully demonstrated Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) running on the Prodigy Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware emulation system, representing a critical piece of the company’s test strategy and ensuring that Tachyum’s Prodigy hardware is maturing on pace for production later this year.

A video demonstration of Ceph client running on Prodigy, the world’s first Universal Processor.

The vector unit includes copies of 16 Floating-Point Units (FPUs) and additional shuffle and reduction operations. While there are many instructions to test in a vector unit, the Floating-Point vector operations are the hardest part of a vector unit, and that part is now successfully behind Tachyum’s product development team.

LINPACK measures a system’s floating-point computing power by solving a dense system of linear equations to determine performance. It is a widely used benchmark for supercomputers, including the NSCC Slovakia Supercomputer.

Tachyum’s software team has successfully run native Docker under the Go programing language (Golang) on its Prodigy emulation.

This success is another key piece in the native Tachyum infrastructure software stack on the way to finalizing the company’s vision of Universal Computing Centers unifying cloud, supercomputing, AI and services based on unified and universal processors.

Among the performance milestones reached through Tachyum’s flattened networking capabilities is achieving network bandwidth with RoCE of 186 Gbps between servers.

Additionally, bandwidth increases to 224 Gbps per lane will be available in 2025, and 1024 lanes in 2U switching with OSFP-XD in the near future.

Tachyum’s Prodigy, the world’s first universal processor, successfully runs Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux), the security architecture for Linux systems that allows administrators to have more control over who can access a system.

This latest success of Tachyum’s software team helps satisfy customer requirements in many of its key markets.

Tachyum demonstrates the final piece of its core software stack with a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) running on a Prodigy, the first Universal Processor, emulation system. This milestone enables the company to provide OEM/ODM and system integrators with complete software and firmware stack and serves as a key component of the upcoming Tachyum Prodigy^® 4 socket reference design.

Tachyum has performed several billion test cycles to ensure the stability of Prodigy FPGA hardware emulators. Now, at QA stage, it will run trillions if not quadrillions of test cycles to demonstrate reliability before product tape-out. The QA process covers component testing, integration testing, regression testing, and performance testing.

Tachyum has progressed to running applications in Linux interactive mode on Prodigy FPGA hardware with SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing) Linux and the floating-point unit enabled on the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) prototype of its Prodigy Universal Processor.

In this video we briefly demonstrate the FPGA hardware, before moving on to a demo of a typical user session. We perform basic commands for working with the file system, processes, permissions, printing information about architecture, boot sequence, and terminal. Finally, we demonstrate the capability of running applications by running linpack.

The Tachyum software team has reached a huge milestone in Tachyum’s ever-expanding software ecosystem with the porting of FreeBSD to the Prodigy Universal Processor. Support for FreeBSD is key to addressing our broad range of customer requirements.

Our video presents FreeBSD in the context of other operating systems, illustrates FreeBSD’s features that make it a strong candidate for data center applications, and discusses the interesting and challenging development flow required for the porting. Our demonstration of FreeBSD running in a Prodigy environment showcases a working network interface using a simple web server, and FreeBSD development tests running using the kyua testing framework.

KVM Virtualization Demonstration
Tachyum Prodigy^® has the ability to run virtual machines on the Prodigy instruction set. Tachyum software team has implemented support for the KVM (Linux kernel) Hypervisor. This is a big step in the Tachyum Prodigy software ecosystem for future customers. Tachyum will have virtualization from day one.

UEFI, Linux Kernel, QEMU, and GCC.

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Watch the highlights of Tachyum presentations at ITAPA 2021 International Congress.

Watch Martin, one of Tachyum’s developers, presenting the Prodigy emulation system to one of the attendees at the Tachyum booth at ITAPA 2021 International Congress in Bratislava, Slovakia.

The video is in Slovak, please be sure to turn on captions.

The emulation portal grants our partners access to virtual machines running on the Tachyum Prodigy architecture as well as the FPGA prototype. That way they can test the compatibility of the tools they are using or ask our software team for assistance with porting these programs.

Watch the Linux boot process on the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) prototype of the Prodigy Universal Processor.

Recorded presentation of Tachyum’s Prodigy Universal Processor summarizing processor features, benefits at the data center and global levels, and case studies that include the upcoming NSCC Slovakia Supercomputer deployment.

Tachyum presenting the Tachyum Prodigy^® FPGA-Based Emulator at GLOBSEC 2021 in Bratislava

GLOBSEC2021 Bratislava Forum: Keynote remarks by Radoslav Danilák - Co-Founder and CEO, Tachyum

Tachyum CEO Dr. Radoslav Danilak, presenting at the HPC User Forum.

DIA (Defence Intelligence Agency) CIO Virtual Summit connected together government agencies, academia and the private sector.

UEFI Demo for Prodigy

Apache Tomcat and software debugging

Tachyum’s AI instruction set demo

Prodigy executes instructions at speed correctly

Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python running natively on a Prodigy emulator

Installing and running emulated x86, ARM and RISC-V binaries on a Prodigy emulator

Running a web server built out from the mix of x86 and native binaries on a Prodigy emulator