{"id":150810,"date":"2022-11-22T16:23:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T22:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/this-ai-supercomputer-has-13-5-million-cores-and-was-built-in-just-three-days"},"modified":"2022-11-22T16:23:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T22:23:56","slug":"this-ai-supercomputer-has-13-5-million-cores-and-was-built-in-just-three-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/this-ai-supercomputer-has-13-5-million-cores-and-was-built-in-just-three-days","title":{"rendered":"This AI Supercomputer Has 13.5 Million Cores\u2014and Was Built in Just Three Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-ai-supercomputer-has-13-5-million-cores-and-was-built-in-just-three-days2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the time, all this was theoretical. But last week, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cerebras.net\/press-release\/cerebras-unveils-andromeda-a-13.5-million-core-ai-supercomputer-that-delivers-near-perfect-linear-scaling-for-large-language-models\">company announced<\/a> they\u2019d linked 16 CS-2s together into a world-class AI supercomputer.<\/p>\n<p><b>Meet Andromeda<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The new machine, called Andromeda, has 13.5 million cores capable of speeds over an exaflop (one quintillion operations per second) at 16-bit half precision. Due to the unique chip at its core, Andromeda isn\u2019t easily compared to supercomputers running on more traditional CPUs and GPUs, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpcwire.com\/2022\/11\/14\/cerebras-builds-exascale-ai-supercomputer\/\">Feldman told <em>HPC Wire<\/em><\/a> Andromeda is roughly equivalent to Argonne National Laboratory\u2019s Polaris supercomputer, which ranks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top500.org\/lists\/top500\/list\/2022\/11\/\">17th fastest in the world<\/a>, according to the latest Top500 list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the time, all this was theoretical. But last week, the company announced they\u2019d linked 16 CS-2s together into a world-class AI supercomputer. Meet Andromeda The new machine, called Andromeda, has 13.5 million cores capable of speeds over an exaflop (one quintillion operations per second) at 16-bit half precision. Due to the unique chip at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}