{"id":169320,"date":"2023-08-09T08:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T13:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/cerebras-builds-massive-ai-supercomputer"},"modified":"2023-08-09T08:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T13:24:02","slug":"cerebras-builds-massive-ai-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/cerebras-builds-massive-ai-supercomputer","title":{"rendered":"Cerebras Builds Massive AI Supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cerebras-builds-massive-ai-supercomputer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cerebras.net\/leadership\/andrew-feldman\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Andrew Feldman<\/a>, CEO of Silicon Valley AI computer maker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cerebras.net\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Cerebras<\/a>, begins his introduction to his company\u2019s latest achievement: An AI supercomputer capable of 2 billion billion operations per second (2 exaflops). The system, called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.condorgalaxy.ai\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Condor Galaxy 1<\/a>, is on track to double in size within 12 weeks. In early 2024, it will be joined by two more systems of double that size. The Silicon Valley company plans to keep adding Condor Galaxy installations next year until it is running a network of nine supercomputers capable of 36 exaflops in total.<\/p>\n<p>If <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tag\/llms?__rblms_page_revalidate=1\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\">large-language models<\/a> and other <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tag\/generative-ai\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\">generative AI<\/a> are eating the world, Cerebras\u2019s plan is to help them digest it. And the Sunnyvale, Calif., company is not alone. Other makers of AI-focused computers are building massive systems around either their own specialized processors or Nvidia\u2019s latest GPU, <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/search\/?q=h100\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">the H100<\/a>. While it\u2019s difficult to <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/large-language-models-training-benchmark\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\">judge the size and capabilities<\/a> of most of these systems, Feldman claims Condor Galaxy 1 is already among the largest.<\/p>\n<p>Condor Galaxy 1\u2014assembled and started up in just 10 days\u2014is made up of 32 Cerebras CS-2 computers and is set to expand to 64. The next two systems, to be built in Austin, Texas, and Ashville, N.C., will also house 64 CS-2s each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s how Andrew Feldman, CEO of Silicon Valley AI computer maker Cerebras, begins his introduction to his company\u2019s latest achievement: An AI supercomputer capable of 2 billion billion operations per second (2 exaflops). The system, called Condor Galaxy 1, is on track to double in size within 12 weeks. In early 2024, it will be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6,8,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai","category-space","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169320","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}