Post-Webinar - Neocortex: Summer 2022 Call for Proposals and System Overview

Presented on Wednesday, June 1, 2022, 3:00 - 4:00 pm (ET), by Paola A. Buitrago: Principal Investigator & Neocortex Project Director, and AI and Big Data Director at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center; Dr. Natalia Vassilieva, Director of Product, Machine Learning at Cerebras Systems Inc.

This webinar presents the upcoming Summer 2022 Call for Proposals (NeocortexSummer2022CFP) and gives a system overview of Neocortex, an AI specialized NSF-funded supercomputer deployed at PSC/CMU.

For more information about Neocortex, please visit https://www.cmu.edu/psc/aibd/neocortex/. 

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Table of Contents

00:00 - Welcome 02:34 - Neocortex Overview and Summer 2022 Call for Proposals Intro 03:35 - The Neocortex System: Context 07:55 - The Neocortex System: Motivation 10:42 - Hardware Description 12:47 - Neocortex Summer 2022 Call for Proposals 18:36 - To Learn More and Participate 22:16 - Cerebras CS-2: the AI Compute Engine for Neocortex 23:08 - CS-2 Overview 30:58 - CS-2 for Deep Learning 50:32 - CS-2 for HPC 57:40 - CS-2 Conclusions

Q&A

Are the resources limited to AI-based research only?

Is it possible to review APIs as part of the process of developing a proposal?

Are there any avenues for non-US researchers to apply, possibly via some US collaborators?

Are there areas of involvement/research you would encourage individuals to look into that ML needs more of?