Cerebras Introduces the CS-1 System, Home to World's First Trillion Transistor Processor

[Raevenlord]

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.



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[juiseman]

I think this will finally be able to play Crisis without stuttering....yes!!! finally; 60+ FPS!!

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

@Ravenlord so is it SC-1 or CS-1, looks like you changed it to SC-1 halfway thru.

 

[Neverdie]

Cyberdine systems, neural-network based AI.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

I'll be back.

 

[juiseman]

Skynet is here.

 

[sam_86314]

I think this will finally be able to play Crisis without stuttering....yes!!! finally; 60+ FPS!!

But can it do it on ultra settings with software rendering? AMD's 64 core chip can do it on low.

 

[Raevenlord]

@Ravenlord so is it SC-1 or CS-1, looks like you changed it to SC-1 halfway thru.

pardon my french. It's CS-1. For CerebraS-1, I'd wager. Fixed. Thanks for the heads-up.

 

[Vulcansheart]

This is to create AI that we will ultimately go to war against, lose, and become enslaved for the sole value of body's electrical production after the sky has been scorched. If my calculations are correct, it will only require about 200 humans to run one server for an hour...

 

[lexluthermiester]

I think this will finally be able to play Crisis without stuttering....yes!!! finally; 60+ FPS!!

You must be doing something wrong. I've been getting 60FPS in Crysis since it released in 2007. IF this system could even run Crysis, it would easily run it a faster than 60FPS...

 

[Prima.Vera]

Nr of transistors10 times more than the human brain cells.... Nice.

 

[Tomorrow]

You must be doing something wrong. I've been getting 60FPS in Crysis since it released in 2007. IF this system could even run Crysis, it would easily run it a faster than 60FPS...

At maxed out settings? What resolution?

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

I play Crysis on my Tandy-1000 at 59FPS

 

[R-T-B]

You must be doing something wrong. I've been getting 60FPS in Crysis since it released in 2007. IF this system could even run Crysis, it would easily run it a faster than 60FPS...

It's a joke meme. Of course it can run Crysis... that's not too hard today, but the meme from back then remains.

But can it do it on ultra settings with software rendering? AMD's 64 core chip can do it on low.

Ah yes, software rendering. How much better the pixels look when they poop out of your cpu instead of gpu...

 

[Vya Domus]

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.

 

[Vulcansheart]

You must be doing something wrong. I've been getting 60FPS in Crysis since it released in 2007. IF this system could even run Crysis, it would easily run it a faster than 60FPS...

 

[Disparia]

If anyone wanted some additional photos and information, here is a link to the press kit.

 

[lexluthermiester]

At maxed out settings? What resolution?

At the time 1440x900 was my display, I think most settings were max'd. I turned AA off and AF to 4x. But we're off topic and I digress..

It's a joke meme. Of course it can run Crysis... that's not too hard today, but the meme from back then remains.

I know, it was a joke in return.

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Sometimes I wonder if my humor is a bit to dry/subtle...

If anyone wanted some additional photos and information, here is a link to the press kit.

Love the Hockey Puck comparison photo! That made me smile!

 

[R-T-B]

Sometimes I wonder if my humor is a bit to dry/subtle...

Possibly. Internet isn't a good medium for any of those things honestly...

 

[Bytales]

This is unbelieveble. I have no words to describe the
STUPIDITY of this all.
YOU have the biggest chip ever created,
- working on "cancer Research", where cancer of every sort and type imaginable is compeltely cured by fasting (no eating and drinking only water for Extended periods of time 1 2 3 months) (Information that was always suppressed and kept from the public by big pharma, but which was allready known and looked at even from the 30s)
- working on "black hole Research" - which are rumored to not even exist in the first place (something that even Steven Hawking in the end believed to be the case)

What can i say:
Humanity at ist best.

No wonder Alien civilizations havent "officially" landed on earth to say hello.
They still rub their heads having a hard time to believe the stupidity "on Show" here on this planet.

I congratulate Cerebras for making the most powerfull most useless chip in the history of humanity, though. !
Bravo, bravo !

 

[cyneater]

so its on big chip...

it runs about as hot as a voodoo banshee and sucks down power like its going out of fashion

 

[juiseman]

I take back the Crisis joke in full....

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Sometimes I wonder if my humor is a bit to dry/subtle...

what humor?

 

[lexluthermiester]

This is unbelievable. I have no words to describe the STUPIDITY of this all.

Oh the irony...

YOU have the biggest chip ever created,

And let's remember, it's their property, they can do whatever they want with it, even run Cyrsis at 60FPS!

- working on "cancer Research", where cancer of every sort and type imaginable is completely cured by fasting (no eating and drinking only water for Extended periods of time 1 2 3 months) (Information that was always suppressed and kept from the public by big pharma, but which was already known and looked at even from the 30s)

Spell-check is your friend but even that can not help you to understand why Cancer research will benefit from such a powerful CPU. Starvation cures cancer eh? Interesting theory, not supported by all of the people who are starved to death by cancer itself. If starvation was a valid treatment and cure, cancer would cure itself in many cases. Let's leave the cancer research to the scientists studying that very complex subject.

- working on "black hole Research" - which are rumored to not even exist in the first place

Oh? Where/when did that rumor begin? Because there exists photos and observational data you need to look at...

(something that even Steven Hawking in the end believed to be the case)

Rubbish.

What can i say: Humanity at it's best.

Yes, your display was indeed quite amusing..

(Mods, I know we're not supposed to feed the trolls, but this was just too tantalizing to resist addressing.)

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Oh? Where/when did that rumor begin? Because there exists photos and observational data you need to look at...

shhh leave his head in the sand...