{"id":188107,"date":"2024-04-25T12:25:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/sandia-pushes-the-neuromorphic-ai-envelope-with-hala-point-supercomputer"},"modified":"2024-04-25T12:25:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:25:09","slug":"sandia-pushes-the-neuromorphic-ai-envelope-with-hala-point-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/sandia-pushes-the-neuromorphic-ai-envelope-with-hala-point-supercomputer","title":{"rendered":"Sandia Pushes The Neuromorphic AI Envelope With Hala Point \u201cSupercomputer\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.sandia-pushes-the-neuromorphic-ai-envelope-with-hala-point-supercomputer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not many devices in the datacenter have been etched with the Intel 4 process, which is the chip maker\u2019s spin on 7 nanometer extreme ultraviolet immersion lithography. But Intel\u2019s Loihi 2 neuromorphic processor is one of them, and Sandia National Laboratories is firing up a supercomputer with 1,152 of them interlinked to create what Intel is calling the largest neuromorphic system every assembled.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextplatform.com\/2024\/03\/18\/with-blackwell-gpus-ai-gets-cheaper-and-easier-competing-with-nvidia-gets-harder\/\">Nvidia\u2019s top-end \u201cBlackwell\u201d GPU accelerators now pushing up to 1,200 watts<\/a> in their peak configurations, and require liquid cooling, and other accelerators no doubt following as their sockets get inevitably bigger as Moore\u2019s Law scaling for chip making slows, this is a good time to take a step back and see what can be done with a reasonably scaled neuromorphic system, which not only has circuits which act more like real neurons used in real brains and also burn orders of magnitude less power than the XPUs commonly used in the datacenter for all kinds of compute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not many devices in the datacenter have been etched with the Intel 4 process, which is the chip maker\u2019s spin on 7 nanometer extreme ultraviolet immersion lithography. But Intel\u2019s Loihi 2 neuromorphic processor is one of them, and Sandia National Laboratories is firing up a supercomputer with 1,152 of them interlinked to create what Intel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188107","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\/188107","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}