Cerebras claims record in molecular dynamics simulations, says it’s 748x faster than Frontier supercomputer
Cerebras Systems, the maker of an AI “chip” the size of a pizza box, is making some impressive claims about its AI processing performance.
At the recent Supercomputing 24 show, Cerebras announced a breakthrough in molecular dynamics simulations. Data from third-party benchmark firm Artificial Analysis shows a single Cerebras CS-2 system with one Wafer Scale Engine-2 (WSE) achieved over 1.1 million steps per second, which is 748x faster than what is possible on the Frontier supercomputer (which just lost its world’s fastest supercomputer title to newcomer El Capitan).
Not only that, but it was a single WSE chip in a single CS-2 server unit, occupying one rack about 16U in height and consuming 27 kilowatts of power. Frontier has 37,000 GPUs and CPUs in rows of cabinets and consumes 21 megawatts of power.
Even more impressive, this benchmark was run on a CS-2, which is an older Cerebras model. The CS-3 and third-generation WSE chip is at least twice as fast as the CS-2.
