Cerebras to Collaborate with Dell, and AMD, on AI Model Training

SUNNYVALE, CA – June 12, 2024 – Specialty AI processor company Cerebras Systems today announced a collaboration with Dell Technologies to deliver AI compute infrastructure for generative AI.

The collaboration includes a new memory storage solution powered by Dell and AMD EPYC CPUs for Cerebras AI supercomputers, enabling enterprises to train models “orders of magnitude larger than the current state of the art,” according to the companies.

Leveraging AMD EPYC 9354P CPUs and Dell PowerEdge R6615 servers, Cerebras accelerates memory-intensive compute, “extending its 82TB streaming memory supercomputers clusters almost infinitely to train models of any size,” Cerebras said.

The Cerebras-Dell offering includes AI systems and supercomputers, large language model training and machine learning support services.

“Our new collaboration with Dell is a turning point for Cerebras,” says Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO, Cerebras Systems. “This opens up our global sales distribution channels in a meaningful way, while providing customers with the additional AI hardware, software and expertise needed to enable full-scale enterprise deployments.”

Cerebras said it offers the world’s fastest AI acceleration technology that enables 880 times the memory capacity of GPUs, 97 percent less code to build large language models, push-button model scaling and superior data preprocessing solutions.  “Cerebras technology enables effortless compute and memory scaling, data parallelism for less debugging, and its simple structure enables a lower total cost of ownership.  Cerebras also offers a deep bench of machine learning experts that have contributed open-source state-of-the-art language models and datasets, and published numerous research papers that advance generative AI,” the company said.