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A friend visited the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, where he saw one of these. Said that they throw off a LOT of heat. Stainless steel braided piping is used
by shrubble 5y ago
A friend visited the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, where he saw one of these. Said that they throw off a LOT of heat. Stainless steel braided piping is used to move the liquid cooling around.
- tyingq 5y agoTheir home page says 23kw in 15 rack units. Compare that to somewhere in the range of 5 to 25kw for 42 rack units for a more traditional mix of equipment in a rack. Sounds like it consumes somewhere in the range of 2.5 to 10 times more than a normal server that would fit in the same space. 1.5kw per RU as compared to 0.12-0.6 per RU for "normal equipment".
- meepmorp 5y agoThe 1st generation units draw 23kW peak, so yeah, basically a computational space heater. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16626/cerebras-unveils-wafer-scale-engine-two-wse2-26-trillion-transistors-100-yield https://www.anandtech.com/show/16626/cerebras-unveils-wafer-...
- rokobobo 5y agoAt 1:51 of this video, you can see them fitting it to what looks like a giant heatsink, to be plugged into some very large pipes: https://youtu.be/qSqAxEXtZY0?t=111 https://youtu.be/qSqAxEXtZY0?t=111