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 <engwalljonathanther...@gmail.com<mailto:engwalljonathanther...@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 <jaquil...@eagleeyet.net<mailto: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<mailto:sa...@eagleeyet.net> Website: https://eagleeyet.net<https://eagleeyet.net/> From: Beowulf <beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org<mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org>> On Behalf Of Peter St. John Sent: 12 June 2020 20:51 To: Jonathan Engwall <engwalljonathanther...@gmail.com<mailto:engwalljonathanther...@gmail.com>> Cc: Beowulf Mailing List <Beowulf@beowulf.org<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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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