NCSA Deploys Cerebras CS-2 in New HOLL-I Supercomputer for Large-Scale Artificial Intelligence

Cerebras Systems, the pioneer in high performance artificial intelligence (AI) computing, announced that the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has deployed the Cerebras CS-2 system in their HOLL-I supercomputer.

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“We’re thrilled to have the Cerebras CS-2 system up and running in our Center”

“We’re thrilled to have the Cerebras CS-2 system up and running in our Center,” said Dr. Volodymyr Kindratenko, Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at NCSA. “This system is unique in the AI computing space in that we will have multiple clusters at NCSA that address the various levels of AI and machine learning needs — Delta and HAL, our NVIDIA DGX, and now HOLL-I, consisting of the CS-2, as the crown jewel of our capabilities. Each system is at the correct scale for the various types of usage and all having access to our shared center-wide TAIGA filesystem eliminating delays and slowdowns caused by data migration as users move up the ladder of more intense machine learning computation.”

The Cerebras CS-2 is the world’s fastest AI system. It is powered by the largest processor ever built – the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 2 (WSE-2). The Cerebras WSE-2 delivers more AI optimized compute cores, more fast memory, and more fabric bandwidth than any other deep learning processor in existence. Purpose built for AI work, machine learning practitioners can write their models in the opensource frameworks of TensorFlow or PyTorch and without modification run the model on the Cerebras CS-2. With the CS-2 and Cerebras Software Language (CSoft), practitioners can seamlessly scale up from small models like BERT to the largest models in existence like GPT-3.

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“We founded Cerebras Systems with the audacious goal to forever change the AI compute landscape,” said Andrew Feldman, CEO and Co-Founder, Cerebras Systems. “Not only are we seeking to accelerate AI workloads by orders of magnitude over what is possible on legacy hardware, but we also want to put this extraordinary capability in the hands of academics and researchers. Partnering with NCSA ensures that academics and researchers will have access to the world’s fastest solution for AI and HPC.”

Large models have demonstrated state of the art accuracy on many language processing and understanding tasks. Training these large models using GPU is challenging and time-consuming. Training from scratch on new datasets often takes weeks and 10s of megawatts of power on large clusters of legacy equipment. Moreover, as the size of the cluster grows, power, cost, and complexity grow exponentially. Programming clusters of graphics processing units requires rare skills, different machine learning frameworks, and specialized tools that require weeks of engineering time for each iteration.

The CS-2 was built to directly address these challenges: Setting up even the largest model takes only a few minutes, and the CS-2 is faster than clusters of 100s of graphics processing units. With less time spent in set up, configuration and training, the CS-2 enables users to explore more ideas in less time.

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