China Builds Brain-Scale AI Model Using ExaFLOPS Supercomputer

Chinese scientists have built what they call ‘a brain-scale artificial intelligence model’ based on one of its latest supercomputers featuring Sunway processors, reports SCMP . The scholars claim that the AI model with 174 trillion parameters could be used for a variety of applications starting from autonomous vehicles to scientific research. The system used is the Sunway OceanLight (sometimes called OceanLite) is based on 96,000 nodes powered by Sunway’s hybrid SW39010 390-core processors featuring almost 40 million cores in total (with CPUs evolved from the SW26010 processors ). This machine was touted as one of the world’s first exascale supercomputers , but since then the claim about its FP64 performance has been largely debunked when it turned out that the scientists lowered precision of calculations the machine performed while doing the work for the Gordon Bell trophy (which is sometimes called a ‘Nobel Prize for supercomputing’). The Chinese team of researchers from the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology (NRCPC) call their AI model bagualu — alchemist’s pot — since it includes about 174 trillion parameters, which rivals the number of synapses in the human brain. Actual performance of OceanLight is now claimed to be 5.3 ‘AI’ ExaFLOPS, even… Read full this story

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