Neocortex is a highly innovative resource that targets the acceleration of AI-powered scientific discovery by greatly shortening the time required for deep learning training and by fostering greater integration of artificial deep learning with scientific workflows. The promising Cerebras WSE (wafer Scale Engine) accelerators in Neocortex facilitates the development of more efficient algorithms for artificial intelligence and graph analytics.
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Neocortex is a highly innovative advanced computing system ideal for foundation and large language models. Neocortex, which captures promising specialized innovative hardware technologies, is designed to vastly accelerate large deep learning (DL) models and high- performance computing (HPC) research in pursuit of science, discovery, and societal good.
Neocortex CS provides access to a Cerebras Wafer-Scale Cluster powered by a CS-3 system. The CS-3 system features a Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer Scale Engine 3), the largest chip ever built, with 900,000 Sparse Linear Algebra Compute cores, 44 GB SRAM on-chip memory, 24 PB/s aggregate memory bandwidth and 245 Pb/s interconnect bandwidth. Hosted in the Cerebras Developer Cloud, the Neocortex cluster includes a MemoryX external memory node which provides virtually unlimited model weight capacity as well as a SwarmX Fabric interconnect that enables highly efficient scaling to additional CS3 units which can be added on demand. NLP, Vision and Multimodal deep learning models optimized to run on Cerebras hardware are available, supported by data processors, utilities, layers and losses. An LLM assistant can provide information and execute commands. The Cerebras SDK enables the development of new DL and HPC applications.
Neocortex is a highly innovative resource that targets the acceleration of AI-powered scientific discovery by vastly shortening the time required for deep learning training, fostering greater integration of artificial deep learning with scientific workflows, and providing revolutionary new hardware for the development of more efficient algorithms for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.
The Neocortex HPE Superdome Flex (SDFlex) features 32 Intel Xeon Platinum 8280L CPUs with 28 cores (56 threads) each, 2.70-4.0 GHz, 38.5 MB cache, 24 TiB RAM, aggregate memory bandwidth of 4.5 TB/s, and 204.6 TB aggregate local storage capacity with 150 GB/s read bandwidth. The SDF can provide 1.2 Tb/s to each CS-2 system and 1.6 Tb/s from the Bridges-2 filesystems.
SDFlex Service units are calculated as chassis hours. Each chassis has 112 cpu cores, so an SDFlex SU = 112 core hours.
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