In 2019, Intel and the Department of Energy announced plans for Aurora, the world’s first exascale computer. It was expected to be operational by 2021. Now, Aurora is finally online—but only at half-scale. Despite its many setbacks, it debuted on the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers in …
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Nvidia is the current top dog when it comes to AI hardware, and to prove it, the company recently set numerous records for AI training and high-performance computing, breaking records it set by itself just six months ago. In the latest round of MLPerf industry benchmarks its Eos supercomputer ran …
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Cerebras unveiled its new AI supercomputer Andromeda at SC22. With 13.5 million cores across 16 Cerebras CS-2 systems, Andromeda boasts an exaflop of AI compute and 120 petaflops of dense compute. Its computing workhorse is Cerebras’ wafer-scale, manycore processor, WSE-2. Each WSE-2 wafer has three physical planes, which handle arithmetic, …
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