[bhassel]

> In another break with industry practice, the chip won’t be sold on its own, but will be packaged into a computer “appliance” that Cerebras has designed. One reason is the need for a complex system of water-cooling, a kind of irrigation network to counteract the extreme heat generated by a chip running at 15 kilowatts of power.

15 kW, yikes.

[dmitrygr]

So, Azul Systems 2.0? clever(ish) hardware with good(ish) results, for too much $$$ for anyone to actually buy?

[rbanffy]

The main difference is that what Azul built had more limits - once you run your workload well enough, there is little incentive to have more compute power.

When it comes to ML, the more compute power you throw at it, the better.