Zhongcheng Hualong HL200 inference chip released: energy efficiency ratio 5.12 TFLOPS/W, cluster can be expanded up to 10,000 cards

IT House reported on August 22 that according to Jiemian News today, Zhongcheng Hualong has launched a new HL200 inference chip and super node intelligent computing cluster solution. According to reports, the chip has a single card FP4 computing power of 4P, FP8 computing power of 2P, FP16/BF16 computing power of 0.5P, an energy efficiency ratio of 5.12 TFLOPS/W, and native support for FP4 and FP8 low-precision inference. The HL200 super node intelligent computing cluster solution supports the interconnection of 64 GPUs in a single cabinet. A single node can stack up to 1024 cards vertically and can be expanded horizontally to a maximum of 10240 cards. IT House inquired about public information and learned that Zhongcheng Hualong Computer Technology Co., Ltd. ("Zhongcheng Hualong") was established in October 2017 in the form of mixed ownership. Zhongcheng Hualong focuses on the construction of independent and trustworthy general computing, intelligent computing, supercomputing, and storage computing infrastructure, and has the full-stack independent and controllable capabilities of "chip + complete machine + solution".