Neocortex - PSC

Neocortex is a highly innovative resource that targets the acceleration of AI-powered scientific discovery by greatly shortening the time required for deep learning training and by fostering greater integration of artificial deep learning with scientific workflows. The revolutionary hardware in Neocortex facilitates the development of more efficient algorithms for artificial intelligence and graph analytics.

Neocortex democratizes access to game-changing compute power for research that requires faster turnaround on training to analyze data and integrate AI with simulation. It also inspires the research community to scale their AI-based research and integrate AI advances into their research workflows.

With Neocortex, researchers can apply more accurate models and larger training data, scale model parallelism to unprecedented levels, and avoid the need for expensive and time-consuming hyperparameter optimization. This innovative AI platform enables the development of new algorithms in machine learning and graph analytics.

Neocortex features two Cerebras CS-2 systems and an HPE Superdome Flex HPC server robustly provisioned to drive the CS-2 systems simultaneously at maximum speed and support the complementary requirements of AI and HPDA workflows.

Additionally, Neocortex is federated with PSC’s Bridges-2, which provides users with:

• Access to the Bridges-2 filesystem for management of persistent data

• General purpose computing for complementary data wrangling and preprocessing

• High bandwidth connectivity to other ACCESS sites, campus, labs, and clouds

For more information on Neocortex, see the Neocortex documentation.