[Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer

[Jonathan Engwall]

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 <jaquilina at eagleeyet.net>
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> I honestly cannot imagine the cost involved here for such a system.
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> *From:* Beowulf <beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org> *On Behalf Of *Peter St.
> John
> *Sent:* 12 June 2020 20:51
> *To:* Jonathan Engwall <engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Beowulf Mailing List <Beowulf at beowulf.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Beowulf] Neocortex unreal supercomputer
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> 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 :-)
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> Peter
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> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 6:28 AM Jonathan Engwall <
> engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yes, it may. It is designed for natural language processing and convoluted
> neural networks. Here is a second article.
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> https://insidehpc.com/2020/06/ai-supercomputer-at-psc-to-combine-cerebras-wafer-scale-chips-and-hpe-superdome-flex/
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> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020, 1:19 AM John Hearns <hearnsj at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Will it dream of electric sheep when they turn out the lights and let it
> sleep?
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> https://www.lanl.gov/discover/news-release-archive/2020/June/0608-artificial-brains.php
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> On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 at 01:16, Jonathan Engwall <
> engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> https://www.hpcwire.com/2020/06/09/neocortex-will-be-first-of-its-kind-800000-core-ai-supercomputer/
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