[Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

[Jonathan Engwall]

Very cool!

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 7:58 PM Fischer, Jeremy <jeremy at iu.edu> wrote:

> 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:
>
> https://www.psc.edu/phase2
>
> 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.
>
> NSF funded NeoCortex for 5 million as part of the Category II
> infrastructure grants from OAC —
> https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2005597&HistoricalAwards=false
>
> The Category II awards are for experimental systems.
>
> SUNY Stony Brook got one last year —
> https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1927880
>
> SDSC also got one this year -
> https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2005369&HistoricalAwards=false
>
> J
>
> On Jun 13, 2020, at 10:35 PM, Jonathan Engwall <
> engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020, 8:56 PM Jonathan Aquilina <jaquilina at eagleeyet.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I honestly cannot imagine the cost involved here for such a system.
>>
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>>
>> Jonathan Aquilina
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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>
>> *Cc:* Beowulf Mailing List <Beowulf at beowulf.org>
>> *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> 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/
>>
>>
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>> 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
>>
>>
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>> 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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