[Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

[Jonathan Aquilina]

Morning,

I ready that its going to be used for AI related work if im mistaken?  What situations when it comes to AI does current hardware and GPU’s not manage to keep up in terms of running such networks?

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From: Beowulf <beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org> On Behalf Of Jonathan Engwall
Sent: 14 June 2020 07:12
To: Chris Samuel <chris at csamuel.org>
Cc: Beowulf Mailing List <Beowulf at beowulf.org>
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

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<mailto: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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