[Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

[Peter St. John]

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 :-)
Peter

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 6:28 AM Jonathan Engwall <
engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, it may. It is designed for natural language processing and convoluted
> neural networks. Here is a second article.
>
> https://insidehpc.com/2020/06/ai-supercomputer-at-psc-to-combine-cerebras-wafer-scale-chips-and-hpe-superdome-flex/
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020, 1:19 AM John Hearns <hearnsj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Will it dream of electric sheep when they turn out the lights and let it
>> sleep?
>>
>>
>> https://www.lanl.gov/discover/news-release-archive/2020/June/0608-artificial-brains.php
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 at 01:16, Jonathan Engwall <
>> engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> https://www.hpcwire.com/2020/06/09/neocortex-will-be-first-of-its-kind-800000-core-ai-supercomputer/
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