Cerebras Systems Menjadi Andromeda, Supercomputer AI Yang Memperbelakan Biaya Hanya Rp541 Miliar

JAKARTA - Silicon Valley startup Cerebras Systems, known in industry for a plate-sized chip made for artificial intelligence work, on Monday, November 14 launched an AI supercomputer called Andromeda, which is now available for commercial and academic research.

Andromeda was built by connecting 16 CS-2 Cerebras systems, the company's newest AI computer built around a large chip called Wafer-Scale Engine 2.

Cerebras said Andromeda could make AI computing worth 1 exaflop, or at least one trillion (10 to 18) operations per second, based on the precision of a 16-bit floating point format.

The fastest US supercomputer capable of performing nuclear weapons simulations called Frontier at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory violates the performance of 1 exaflop based on this year's 64 bit double precision format.

They are larger machines. We didn't beat them. They cost $ 600 million (Rp 9.2 trillion) to build. This is less than US $ 35 million (Rp. 541 billion)," said Andrew Feldman, founder and CEO of Cerebras when asked about Frontier's supercomputer.

To Reuters, he said that while extensive nuclear simulations and weather simulations have historically run on a 64-bit dual precision computer, this is an expensive computing format, so researchers are looking into whether the AI algorithm can ultimately match such a result.

Feldman said Andromeda is owned by Cerebras and built in a high-performance data center in Santa Clara, California called Colovore. "Companies and researchers, including from the US national laboratory, can access it remotely," said Feldman.