Wafer scale Cerebras CS-1 flexes its muscles in scientific tasks
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The single 462cm2 chip is 200x faster than the NETL Joule 2.0 (84k core) supercomputer.
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Re: Wafer scale Cerebras CS-1 flexes its muscles in scientific tasks
200x faster or more because the processors are next to each other (like the neuro links of a human brain) thus magnitudes less latency unlike ordinary supercomputers which have several cabinets placed a metre or more from each other.
Re: Wafer scale Cerebras CS-1 flexes its muscles in scientific tasks
Yeah, but this Sh!t must be expensive! A wafer-wide chip can't possibly hope to achieve good yields. It's probably also being made on older, more mature process nodes. It is certainly impressive and a true feat of engeneering but I'm not sure it's actually practical. Plus cooling this large surface area is certainly a great task! Imagine how hard it must be to couple a cooling solution to a fragile silicon crystal this large without cracking it.
Re: Wafer scale Cerebras CS-1 flexes its muscles in scientific tasks
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meuvoy
Yeah, but this Sh!t must be expensive! A wafer-wide chip can't possibly hope to achieve good yields. It's probably also being made on older, more mature process nodes. It is certainly impressive and a true feat of engeneering but I'm not sure it's actually practical. Plus cooling this large surface area is certainly a great task! Imagine how hard it must be to couple a cooling solution to a fragile silicon crystal this large without cracking it.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15838...mputing-center
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This was enabled through breakthrough techniques in cross-reticle patterning, but with the level of redundancy built into the design, ensured a yield of 100%, every time.
I also thought the yields would be an issue, unless they included redundancies. Which they have.
