Tuesday, November 19th 2019
Cerebras Introduces the CS-1 System, Home to World's First Trillion Transistor Processor
Cerebras has introduced the world to its CS-1 system, which will house the company's (and simultaneously, the industry's) most powerful monolithic accelerator.The CS-1 is an integrated solution the size of 15 industry-standard rack units, and packs everything from the Wafer Scale Engine to cooling systems. The CS-1 consumes 20 kW of power, with a full 4 kW dedicated solely to the cooling subsystem, like fans, pumps, and the heat exchanger, 15 kW dedicated to the chip, and 1 kW is totally lost to power supply inefficiencies. Obviously, power supply modules and other cooling subsystems are redundant, and hot-swappable if need be - you can imagine the computational value lost with each millisecond of downtime that were to occur in such a system.
The CS-1 system houses 12x 100GbE connections for pairing with other traditional compute systems, and the SC-1 is also scalable - multiple systems can be made to work in tandem, multiplying processing power by as many units as are integrated, and the entire system being addressable as a single homogeneous system. Power delivery is made directly into core clusters (remember there are 400,000 of those). Already deployed in the Argonne National laboratory, crunch time on the SC-1 is being used to power through cancer research (what an amazing addition to WCG this would be, right?) and black hole research.
Sources:
Tom's Hardware, Cerebras
24 Comments on Cerebras Introduces the CS-1 System, Home to World's First Trillion Transistor Processor
I don't know, I can't take them serious if they list the number of cores as being an advantage compared to a GPU. These things are worlds apart in terms of capabilities and architecture and can't be compared directly, not in a basic way like this at the very least.
it runs about as hot as a voodoo banshee :P and sucks down power like its going out of fashion
(Mods, I know we're not supposed to feed the trolls, but this was just too tantalizing to resist addressing.)