<div dir="auto">Very cool! </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 7:58 PM Fischer, Jeremy <<a href="mailto:jeremy@iu.edu">jeremy@iu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">



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It’s going to be integrated with/part of the Bridges2 supercomputer that’s going into service in the fall. The specifics for that are not completely published, but here’s a little about it:
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<div>It’s my understanding that NeoCortex is going to have a petabyte or two of NVME disk sitting in front of it with some HPE hardware and then it’ll utilize the queues and lustre file system on Bridges2 as its front end. </div>
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<div>NSF funded NeoCortex for 5 million as part of the Category II infrastructure grants from OAC — <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2005597&HistoricalAwards=false" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2005597&HistoricalAwards=false</a></div>
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<div>The Category II awards are for experimental systems. </div>
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<div>SUNY Stony Brook got one last year — <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1927880" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1927880</a></div>
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<div>SDSC also got one this year - <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2005369&HistoricalAwards=false" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2005369&HistoricalAwards=false</a></div>
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<div dir="auto">If you plane a thing really flat it gets really small, I'm guessing. The price sounds bizarrely low, only millions. They use of it is strange too, with no mention of disks or storage. It might be interactive.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 12, 2020, 8:56 PM Jonathan Aquilina <<a href="mailto:jaquilina@eagleeyet.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">jaquilina@eagleeyet.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I honestly cannot imagine the cost involved here for such a system.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Beowulf <<a href="mailto:beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter St. John<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 12 June 2020 20:51<br>
<b>To:</b> Jonathan Engwall <<a href="mailto:engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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 :-)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 6:28 AM Jonathan Engwall <<a href="mailto:engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><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>  <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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:<u></u><u></u></p>
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