Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

2020-06-16 Thread Jim Cownie
> write the dame question down this time. The question was well known (“What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?”), it was merely ill-formed. It clearly didn’t obey the supposed first law of court interrogation: “Never ask a witness a question for which you do not know the answer

Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

2020-06-15 Thread Douglas Eadline
> On 13/6/20 10:11 pm, Jonathan Engwall wrote: > >> 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. > > My guess is that this sits connected to the server, they lo

Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

2020-06-14 Thread Darren Wise
Heya, sorry to chime in a little late, Some images of the box on tech crunch, some details, but the article was written during 2019 prior to the new publication you folks are talking about. https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/19/the-cerebras-cs-1-computes-deep-learning-ai-problems-by-being-bigger-bigg

Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

2020-06-13 Thread Chris Samuel
On 13/6/20 10:11 pm, Jonathan Engwall wrote: 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. My guess is that this sits connected to the server, they load an algor

Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

2020-06-13 Thread Jonathan Aquilina via Beowulf
: sa...@eagleeyet.net<mailto:sa...@eagleeyet.net> Website: https://eagleeyet.net From: Beowulf On Behalf Of Jonathan Engwall Sent: 14 June 2020 07:12 To: Chris Samuel Cc: Beowulf Mailing List Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer There is the strange part. How to utilize

Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

2020-06-13 Thread 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 wrote: > On 13/6/20 7:58 pm, Fischer, Jeremy wrote: > > > It’s my understand

Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

2020-06-13 Thread Chris Samuel
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:

Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

2020-06-13 Thread Jonathan Engwall
sa...@eagleeyet.net >> >> Website: https://eagleeyet.net >> >> >> >> *From:* Beowulf *On Behalf Of *Peter St. >> John >> *Sent:* 12 June 2020 20:51 >> *To:* Jonathan Engwall >> *Cc:* Beowulf Mailing List >> *Subject:* Re: [Beowulf] Neoco

Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

2020-06-13 Thread Fischer, Jeremy
ailto: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).

Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

2020-06-13 Thread Jonathan Engwall
om:* Beowulf *On Behalf Of *Peter St. > John > *Sent:* 12 June 2020 20:51 > *To:* Jonathan Engwall > *Cc:* Beowulf Mailing List > *Subject:* Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer > > > > I'm imaging the 8"-on-a-side thing as an Array Coprocessor; the w

Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

2020-06-12 Thread Jonathan Aquilina via Beowulf
2 June 2020 20:51 To: Jonathan Engwall Cc: Beowulf Mailing List 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

Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

2020-06-12 Thread Peter St. John
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, ma

Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

2020-06-12 Thread Jonathan Engwall
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 wrote: > Will it dre

Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

2020-06-12 Thread John Hearns
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 possibl

[Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

2020-06-11 Thread Jonathan Engwall
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-