[Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

[Jonathan Aquilina]

I honestly cannot imagine the cost involved here for such a system.

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From: Beowulf <beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org> On Behalf Of Peter St. John
Sent: 12 June 2020 20:51
To: Jonathan Engwall <engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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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