July 20, 2023 — AI technology company Cerebras Systems with partner with G42, a UAE-based technology holding group, have announced Condor Galaxy, a cloud-based network of nine interconnected supercomputers. The first AI supercomputer on this network, Condor Galaxy 1 (CG-1), is optimized for large language models and generative AI and delivers 4 exaFLOPs of 16 […]
Cerebras and UAE-based G42 Announce Condor Galaxy AI Supercomputer, Offered as Cloud Service
July 21, 2023 by
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 Systems Launches Software Development Kit for Wafer-Scale Applications
November 16, 2021 by
SUNNYVALE, CALIF. – November 16, 2021 – Cerebras Systems, whose mission is to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) compute, today announced at SC21 a new Cerebras Software Development Kit (SDK) designed to enable creation of new wafer-scale applications across computational fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, signal processing, and more. The SDK is in Beta now and will be […]
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 […]
Cerebras Systems: 2.5 Trillion-plus Transistors in 7nm-based 2nd Gen Wafer Scale Engine
April 20, 2021 by
Maker of the world’s largest microprocessors, Cerebras Systems, today unveiled what it said is the largest AI chip, the Wafer Scale Engine 2 (WSE-2) — successor to the first WSE introduced in 2019. The 7nm-based WSE-2 exceeds Cerebras’ previous world record with a chip that has 2.6 trillion transistors and 850,000 AI-optimized cores. By comparison, […]
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 […]
EPCC Selects Cerebras Systems AI Supercomputer
February 5, 2021 by
Los Altos, Calif. & Edinburgh, UK — Cerebras Systems, the high performance artificial intelligence (AI) compute company, and EPCC, the supercomputing centre at the University of Edinburgh, today announced the selection of what Cerebras said is the world’s fastest AI computer, the Cerebras CS-1, for EPCC’s new international data facility for the Edinburgh and southeastern […]
Cerebras 1.2 Trillion Chip Integrated with LLNL’s Lassen System for AI Research
August 19, 2020 by
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and AI company Cerebras Systems today announced the integration of the 1.2-trillion Cerebras’ Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) chip into the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) 23-petaflop Lassen supercomputer. The pairing of Lassen’s simulation capability with Cerebras’ machine learning compute system, along with the CS-1 accelerator system that houses the chip, […]
Cerebras Systems Unveils the Industry’s First Trillion Transistor Chip for AI
August 19, 2019 by
Today AI startup Cerebras Systems unveiled the largest chip ever built. “The Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) is the largest chip ever built. 56x larger than any other chip, the WSE delivers more compute, more memory, and more communication bandwidth. This enables AI research at previously-impossible speeds and scale.”
