[Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

[Jonathan Engwall]

There is the strange part. How to utilize such a vast cpu?
Storage should be the back end, unless the use is an api. In this case a
gargantuan cpu sits in back, or so it seems.

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 9:41 PM Chris Samuel <chris at csamuel.org> wrote:

> On 13/6/20 7:58 pm, Fischer, Jeremy wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> There's more information here:
>
>
> https://www.psc.edu/3206-nsf-funds-neocortex-a-groundbreaking-ai-supercomputer-at-psc-2
>
> # Neocortex will use the HPE Superdome Flex, an extremely powerful,
> # user-friendly front-end high-performance computing (HPC) solution
> # for the Cerebras CS-1 servers. This will enable flexible pre- and
> # post-processing of data flowing in and out of the attached WSEs,
> # preventing bottlenecks and taking full advantage of the WSE
> # capability. HPE Superdome Flex will be robustly provisioned with
> # 24 terabytes of memory, 205 terabytes of high-performance flash
> # storage, 32 powerful Intel Xeon CPUs, and 24 network interface
> # cards for 1.2 terabits per second of data bandwidth to each
> # Cerebras CS-1.
>
> The way it reads both of these CS-1's will sit behind that single Flex.
>
> All the best,
> Chris
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