<div dir="ltr">I'm imaging the 8"-on-a-side thing as an Array Coprocessor;  the way NVIDIA cards can be used. Video cards fill an ISA card slot (in my day an uber gaming  rig could use two in tandem in adjacent  slots). Mine was a box about the length of my hand that filled the card, it had appreciable memory, maybe a quarter of my core. I can imagine that scaling up. Probably can do well with LINPACK :-)<div>Peter</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 6:28 AM Jonathan Engwall <<a href="mailto:engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com">engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"></div>Yes, it may. It is designed for natural language processing and convoluted neural networks. Here is a second article.<div dir="auto"><a href="https://insidehpc.com/2020/06/ai-supercomputer-at-psc-to-combine-cerebras-wafer-scale-chips-and-hpe-superdome-flex/" target="_blank">https://insidehpc.com/2020/06/ai-supercomputer-at-psc-to-combine-cerebras-wafer-scale-chips-and-hpe-superdome-flex/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 12, 2020, 1:19 AM John Hearns <<a href="mailto:hearnsj@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">hearnsj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Will it dream of electric sheep when they turn out the lights and let it sleep?<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.lanl.gov/discover/news-release-archive/2020/June/0608-artificial-brains.php" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.lanl.gov/discover/news-release-archive/2020/June/0608-artificial-brains.php</a>  <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 at 01:16, Jonathan Engwall <<a href="mailto:engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">This machine is planned, or possibly being built in Pittsburg. It sounds impossible with a CPU approximatly 8 inches on each side, if square, having thousands of cores and needing hundreds of 100 gigabit cards to its slave machines.<div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.hpcwire.com/2020/06/09/neocortex-will-be-first-of-its-kind-800000-core-ai-supercomputer/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.hpcwire.com/2020/06/09/neocortex-will-be-first-of-its-kind-800000-core-ai-supercomputer/</a><br></div></div>
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