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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 class="">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 class="">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" class="">https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2005597&HistoricalAwards=false</a></div>
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<div class="">The Category II awards are for experimental systems. </div>
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<div class="">SUNY Stony Brook got one last year — <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1927880" class="">https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1927880</a></div>
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<div class="">SDSC also got one this year - <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2005369&HistoricalAwards=false" class="">https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2005369&HistoricalAwards=false</a></div>
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<div class="">On Jun 13, 2020, at 10:35 PM, Jonathan Engwall <<a href="mailto:engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com" class="">engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">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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<p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class=""> Beowulf <<a href="mailto:beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org</a>>
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<b class="">Subject:</b> Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer<u class=""></u><u class=""></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 class=""></u><u class=""></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" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, it may. It is designed for natural language processing and convoluted neural networks. Here is a second article.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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