In few other areas of the global economy are the rounds of creative destruction more rapid and more intense than the HPC-AI sector. We see this today with the generative AI sensation: OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November has created a firestorm of competitive responses. At least two companies – Cerebras, maker of the dinner-plate […]
Cerebras, Databricks Stoke Generative AI Arena with Open Source LLMs
March 28, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Cerebras Announces 2 AI Partnerships – for Large Language Model Training and ‘Generative AI’ Content Creation
November 29, 2022 by
Cerebras Systems, maker of the “dinner plate sized” AI processor, announced two alliances today, one with Cirrascale Cloud Services, provider of deep learning solutions for AVs, NLP and computer vision, and with Jasper, maker of an AI content platform for AI-based copywriting and content creation. Under the Cirrascale-Cerebras partnership, the two companies announced the availability […]
ALCF to Hold Cerebras AI Testbed Workshop, Aug. 9-10
July 29, 2022 by
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) will hold a virtual AI testbed training event Aug. 9-10 that will introduce users to the Cerebras hardware and software stack. It will provide hands-on training to get started on the system in the ALCF AI Testbed. Registration is here. Day 1 will focus on Cerebras hardware and software architecture. […]
Cerebras Claims Record for Largest AI Models Trained on a Single Device
June 22, 2022 by
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 22, 2022 — AI computing company Cerebras Systems today announced that a single Cerebras CS-2 system is able to train models with up to 20 billion parameters on – something not possible on any other single device, according to the company. By enabling a single CS-2 to train these models, Cerebras said […]
Proposals Open to Research Community for ALCF AI Testbed’s Cerebras and SambaNova Systems
May 2, 2022 by
Proposals are now being accepted by the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility for access to its AI Testbed, a collection of advanced artificial intelligence accelerators available for science. Researchers interested in using the AI Testbed’s Cerebras CS-2 and SambaNova DataScale systems can submit project proposals via the ALCF’s Director’s Discretionary program. Access to additional testbed resources, including Graphcore, Groq, and Habana accelerators, will be […]
PSC’s Neocortex HPC Upgrades to Cerebras CS-2 AI Systems
April 13, 2022 by
The Neocortex high-performance AI computer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has been upgraded with two new Cerebras CS-2 systems powered by the second-generation wafer-scale engine (WSE-2) processor. PSC said the WSE-2 doubles the system’s cores and on-chip memory as well as offering a new execution mode designed for extreme-scale deep-learning tasks, including larger model […]
Cerebras and nference Launch NLP Collaboration
March 15, 2022 by
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – High performance AI compute company Cerebras Systems and nference, an AI-driven health technology company, today announced a collaboration to accelerate natural language processing (NLP) for biomedical research and development by orders of magnitude with a Cerebras CS-2 system installed at the nference headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. The vast amounts of health data that […]
ALCF Deploys Testbed to Advance AI for Science
November 11, 2021 by
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is building a testbed comprised of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. Designed to explore the possibilities of high-performance computing (HPC) architectures, the ALCF AI Testbed will enable the facility and its user community to help define the role of AI accelerators in next-generation scientific machine learning. “The testbed combines a […]
Cerebras Alliance Offers CS-2 AI Supercomputer as Cloud Service
September 16, 2021 by
High performance AI chip maker Cerebras, maker of the Wafer-Scale Engine, the world’s largest computer chip, today announced Cerebras Cloud @ Cirrascale, delivering its AI accelerator as a cloud service. The alliance combines Cerebras’s CS-2 HPC/AI system, featuring 850,000 AI-optimized compute cores, with Cirrascale’s deep learning cloud services infrastructure. “With Cerebras Cloud @ Cirrascale, (the […]
Radio Free HPC: Cerebras AI Computing at EPCC and HPE’s Chippewa Falls Remodel
March 12, 2021 by
We have a full crew for this wide-ranging episode of RFHPC. We start with a discussion of the new Cerebras and HPE-based supercomputer slated for the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center in, well, Edinburgh. We talk some feeds-and-speeds for the new boxes, particularly about the 400,000-core wafer Cerebras box, along with some of the workloads that will be […]
