Cerebras 1.2 Trillion Chip Integrated with LLNL's Lassen System for AI Research - insideHPC

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and AI company Cerebras Systems today announced the integration of the 1.2-trillion Cerebras' Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) chip into the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) 23-petaflop Lassen supercomputer. The pairing of Lassen's simulation capability with Cerebras' machine learning compute system, along with the CS-1 accelerator system that houses the chip, makes LLNL "the first institution to integrate the AI platform with a large-scale supercomputer and creates a radically new type of computing solution, enabling researchers to investigate novel approaches to predictive modeling," according to the lab. Work on initial AI models began last month. Lassen is the "unclassified companion," according to LLNL, to the IBM/Nvidia system Sierra (ranked no. 3 on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputer) and is no. Funded by the NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing program, the platform aims to accelerate solutions for Department of Energy and NNSA national security mission applications.