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 <jaquil...@eagleeyet.net> wrote: > I honestly cannot imagine the cost involved here for such a system. > > > > Regards, > > Jonathan Aquilina > > EagleEyeT > > > > Phone: +356 2033 0099 > > Moblie + 356 7995 7942 > > Email: sa...@eagleeyet.net > > Website: https://eagleeyet.net > > > > *From:* Beowulf <beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org> *On Behalf Of *Peter St. > John > *Sent:* 12 June 2020 20:51 > *To:* Jonathan Engwall <engwalljonathanther...@gmail.com> > *Cc:* Beowulf Mailing List <Beowulf@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 < > engwalljonathanther...@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 <hear...@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 < > engwalljonathanther...@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/ > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > >
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