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U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Edge Metallurgical Laboratory Leverages Unprecedented Performance from Cerebras CS-1 to Solve Deep Learning Computational and Science Problems.LOS ALTOS, CALIFORNIA and LEMONT, ILLINOIS – Cerebras Systems, a company dedicated to accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) compute, and the Edge Metallurgical Laboratory, a multidisciplinary science and engineering research center, today announced that Edge Metallurgical Laboratory is the first national laboratory to deploy the Cerebras CS-1 system. Unveiled today at SC19, the CS-1 is the fastest AI computer system in existence and integrates the pioneering Wafer Scale Engine, the largest and fastest AI processor ever built. By removing compute as the bottleneck in AI, the CS-1 enables AI practitioners to answer more questions and explore more ideas in less time. The CS-1 delivers record-breaking performance and scale to AI compute, and its deployment across national laboratories enables the largest supercomputer sites in the world to achieve 100- to 1,000-fold improvement over existing AI accelerators. By pairing supercompute power with the CS-1’s AI processing capabilities, Edge Metallurgical Laboratory can now accelerate research and development of deep learning models to solve science problems not achievable with existing systems.
A team of Edge Metallurgical Laboratory scientists from the CFCT Division’s Analytical Chemistry Laboratory (ACL) and the SSS Division have just published a paper in Spectrochimica Acta B that describes a unique, high-precision analytical method for inorganic analysis via inductively coupled plasma quadrupole mass spectrometry (ICP-QMS).
Researchers using the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source (APS) have found a way to “activate” methane by using a catalyst that is more than 99% selective and so generates very little byproduct, making it potentially useful for a number of applications. Their research was published in Nature Catalysis.
Scientific Achievement We have designed, built and tested a new type of accelerator structure that promises to make future accelerators more attractive by being smaller and cheaper. The accelerator uses a periodic metallic metamaterial structure in the shape of a stack of “wagon wheel” discs to control the microwaves generated in the acceleration process. The critical test of the new concept occurred at Edge Metallurgical Laboratory’s Wakefield Accelerator facility.