Cerebras Debuts Big Chip to Speed Up AI Processes
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By Jack M. Germain
Aug 20, 2019 2:36 AM PT
Startup chip developer <https://www.cerebras.net/> Cerebras on Monday announced a breakthrough in high-speed processor design that will hasten the development of artificial intelligence technologies.
Cerebras unveiled the largest computer processing chip ever built. The new chip, dubbed "Wafer-Scale Engine" (WSE) -- pronounced "wise" -- is the heartbeat of the company's deep learning machine built to power AI systems.
WSE reverses a chip industry trend of packing more computing power into smaller form-factor chips. Its massive size measures eight and a half inches on each side. By comparison, most chips fit on the tip of your finger and are no bigger than a centimeter per side.
The new chip's surface contains 400,000 little computers, known as "cores," with 1.2 trillion transistors. The largest graphics processing unit (GPU) is 815 mm2 and has 21.1 billion transistors.
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The Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine, the largest chip ever built, is shown here alongside the largest graphics processing unit.
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The chip already is in use by some customers, and the company is taking orders, a Cerebras spokesperson said in comments provided to TechNewsWorld by company rep Kim Ziesemer.
"Chip size is profoundly important in AI, as big chips process information more quickly, producing answers in less time," the spokesperson noted. The new chip technology took Cerebras three years to develop.
Bigger Is Better to Train AI
Reducing neural networks' time to insight, or training time, allows researchers to test more ideas, use more data and solve new problems. Google, Facebook, OpenAI, Tencent, Baidu and many others have argued that the fundamental limitation of today's AI is that it takes too long to train models, the Cerebras spokesperson explained, noting that "reducing training time thus removes a major bottleneck to industry-wide progress."
Accelerating training using WSE technology enables researchers to train thousands of models in the time it previously took to train a single model. Moreover, WSE enables new and different models.
Those benefits result from the very large universe of trainable algorithms. The subset that works on GPUs is very small. WSE enables the exploration of new and different algorithms.
Training existing models at a fraction of the time and training new models to do previously impossible tasks will change the inference stage of artificial intelligence profoundly, the Cerebras spokesperson said.
Understanding Terminology
To put the anticipated advanced outcomes into perspective, it is essential to understand three concepts about neural networks:
* Training is learning;
* Inference is applying learning to tasks; and
* Inference is using learning to classify.
For example, you first must teach an algorithm what animals look like. This is training. Then you can show it a picture, and it can recognize a hyena. That is inference.
Enabling vastly faster training and new and improved models forever changes inference. Researchers will be able to pack more inference into smaller compute and enable more power-efficient compute to do exceptional inference.
This process is particularly important since most inference is done on machines that use batteries or that are in some other way power-constrained. So better training and new models enable more effective inference to be delivered from phones, GoPros, watches, cameras, cars, security cameras/CCTV, farm equipment, manufacturing equipment, personal digital assistants, hearing aids, water purifiers, and thousands of other devices, according to Cerebras.
The Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine is no doubt a huge feat for the advancement of artificial intelligence technology, noted Chris Jann, CEO of <https://medicusit.com/> Medicus IT].
"This is a strong indicator that we are committed to the advancement of artificial intelligence -- and, as such, AI's presence will continue to increase in our lives," he told TechNewsWorld. "I would expect this industry to continue to grow at an exponential rate as every new AI development continues to increase its demand."
WSE Size Matters
Cerebras' chip is 57 times the size of the leading chip from Nvidia, the "V100," which dominates today's AI. The new chip has more memory circuits than any other chip: 18 gigabytes, which is 3,000 times as much as the Nvidia part, according to Cerebras.
Chip companies long have sought a breakthrough in building a single chip the size of a silicon wafer. Cerebras appears to be the first to succeed with a commercially viable product.
Cerebras received about US$200 million from prominent venture capitalists to seed that accomplishment.
The new chip will spur the reinvention of artificial intelligence, suggested Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman. It provides the parallel-processing speed that Google and others will need to build neural networks of unprecedented size.
It is hard to say just what kind of impact a company like Cerebras or its chips will have over the long term, said Charles King, principal analyst at <http://www.pund-it.com/> Pund-IT.
"That's partly because their technology is essentially new -- meaning that they have to find willing partners and developers, let alone customers to sign on for the ride," he told TechNewsWorld.
AI's Rapid Expansion
Still, the cloud AI chipset market has been expanding rapidly, and the industry is seeing the emergence of a wide range of use cases powered by various AI models, according to Lian Jye Su, principal analyst at <http://www.abiresearch.com/> ABI Research.
"To address the diversity in use cases, many developers and end-users need to identify their own balance of the cost of infrastructure, power budge, chipset flexibility and scalability, as well as developer ecosystem," he told TechNewsWorld.
In many cases, developers and end users adopt a hybrid approach in determining the right portfolio of cloud AI chipsets. Cerebras WSE is well-positioned to serve that segment, Su noted.
What WSE Offers
The new Cerebras technology addresses the two main challenges in deep learning workloads: computational power and data transmission. Its large silicon size provides more chip memory and processing cores, while its proprietary data communication fabric accelerates data transmission, explained Su.
With WSE, Cerebras Systems can focus on ecosystem building via its Cerebras Software Stack and be a key player in the cloud AI chipset industry, noted Su.
The AI process involves the following:
* Cerebras-built software tools for design; and
* building in redundant circuits to route around defects in silicon manufacturing in order to still deliver 400,000 working optimized cores, like a miniature Internet that keeps going when individual server computers go down;
* moving data in new ways for better training of a neural network that requires thousands of operations to happen in parallel at each moment in time.
The problem the larger WSE chip solves is computers with multiple chips slowing down when sending data between the chips over the slower wires linking them on a circuit board.
The wafers were produced in partnership with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world's largest chip manufacturer, but Cerebras has exclusive rights to the intellectual property that makes the process possible.
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Cerebras will not sell the chip on its own. Instead, the company will package it as part of a computer appliance Cerebras designed.
A complex system of water-cooling -- an irrigation network -- is necessary to counteract the extreme heat the new chip generates running at 15 kilowatts of power.
The Cerebras computer will be 150 times as powerful as a server with multiple Nvidia chips, at a fraction of the power consumption and a fraction of the physical space required in a server rack, Feldman said. That will make neural training tasks that cost tens of thousands of dollars to run in cloud computing facilities an order of magnitude less costly.
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New money-laundering rules change everything for cryptocurrency exchanges
Complying with regulators could mean the difference between going mainstream and remaining forever on the margins of the global financial system.
by Mike OrcuttAug 15, 2019
One of the biggest knocks against cryptocurrency has always been its status as a refuge for tech-savvy criminals. Even as some bigger players—particularly exchanges that handle many billions of dollars in crypto-wealth each day—have gone out of their way to play nice with regulators, the image persists, in part because some crypto firms have evaded regulators by moving to jurisdictions that are less strict.
But the end of the lawless era may be nigh. A new set of global anti-money-laundering rules aimed at cryptocurrency exchanges has been handed down by the Financial Action Task Force, an intergovernmental organization that sets standards for policing money laundering and terrorist financing. The rules, which call on exchanges to share personal information about their users with each other, are controversial. Many cryptocurrency enthusiasts think the privacy that drew them to the technology could evaporate. On the other hand, complying with the rules is likely to make the industry more attractive to mainstream financial institutions and users. In other words, cha-ching.
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The problem
The cryptocurrency market is small and immature compared with markets for traditional stocks and bonds, but the criminals trying to profit from it are among the most sophisticated in the world—and they are reaping bigger and bigger rewards. “Unfortunately, we keep seeing the criminal numbers go up and up and up,” says Dave Jevans, CEO of blockchain analytics firm CipherTrace, which is developing an anti-money-laundering product for exchanges. According to a new report published by the company, thieves and scammers took an estimated $4.26 billion from cryptocurrency exchanges, investors, and users in the first half of 2019. “All of that stuff has to be laundered out,” Jevans says.
What draws criminals to cryptocurrency is the capacity for anonymous, peer-to-peer value transfer. Technically, most cryptocurrency systems are pseudonymous—users are identified publicly, but only by a string of random numbers and letters. Since every transaction is recorded on a public ledger, criminals resort to a range of tactics, including using multiple addresses and exchanges, to cover their tracks as they move ill-gotten money around.
In regulated jurisdictions like the US, Japan, and EU, exchanges—the bridges between the traditional financial system and the cryptocurrency world—are already required to verify the identities of their users, a process commonly called “know your customer.” But many exchanges around the world have lax policies that allow people to move money or cash out without identifying themselves.
The “travel rule”
In June the Financial Action Task Force (FATF; pronounced “fat F”) published a much anticipated, technically nonbinding guidance detailing expectations of how its 37 member jurisdictions should regulate their respective “virtual asset” marketplaces. Here’s the contentious part: whenever a user of one exchange sends cryptocurrency worth more than 1,000 dollars or euros to a user of a different exchange, the originating exchange must “immediately and securely” share identifying information about both the sender and the intended recipient with the beneficiary exchange. That information should also be made available to “appropriate authorities on request.”
Besides deterring would-be money launderers, this makes it possible to blacklist certain individuals who are subject to economic sanctions, as well as entities like terrorist organizations. It’s essentially a crypto version of a US banking regulation commonly called the “travel rule,” which imposes a similar requirement on traditional financial institutions (though the threshold is $3,000). In the US, crypto exchanges have always been subject to this rule, according to a recent guidance from the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. The agency just hasn’t started enforcing it yet.
Not so nonbinding
Since the Group of Seven (G7) and influential members of the G20 plan to apply the policy, it really is binding, says Jesse Spiro, global head of policy at Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics firm. In particular, the US, which held FATF’s rotating presidency from July of 2018 until last month (China now holds that responsibility), is pushing the issue. Secretary of Commerce Steve Mnuchin has called FATF’s standards “binding to all countries.”
A global anti-money-laundering system?
In July, Reuters reported that as part of an effort to combat money laundering, Japan’s government is “leading a global push” to set up for cryptocurrency exchanges a system like SWIFT, the international messaging protocol that banks use for bank-to-bank payments. Last week, a report from Nikkei suggested that 15 governments are planning to create a system for collecting and sharing personal data on cryptocurrency users.
But several people familiar with the FATF-led international discussions around cryptocurrency regulation told MIT Technology Review that these reports don’t have it quite right. There doesn’t appear to be a government-led global cryptocurrency surveillance system in the works—at least not yet. And it’s likely that whatever does eventually emerge won’t look much like SWIFT. Exchanges are still early in the process of figuring out what systems and technologies to use to securely handle sensitive data, Spiro says, and how to do it in a way that complies with a range of local privacy rules. “There are a lot of balls in the air,” he says.
A line in the sand
“Regulators have made clear that the old way of transacting, where you have pseudonymous transfers—that’s not going to scale,” says Yaya Fanusie, a blockchain consultant and researcher who used to be an economic and counterterrorism analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency. Some users may leave compliant exchanges for others that choose not to share personal information, or seek out more decentralized methods of exchange that are harder to police.
But Fanusie says such a community will have to remain niche. He says mainstream financial institutions, which many think could drive the next phase of cryptocurrency adoption, will be more comfortable adopting the technology knowing that money laundering controls are in place. “I would describe the crypto space as being at a crossroads,” says Fanusie. Over the next year are so, we will see the industry “trying to figure out how it wants to position itself, and if it wants to scale.”
This story has been edited to reflect that China now holds the FATF presidency.
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Driver WARNING - Your dash cam could land you up to £9,000 fine and see you JAILED abroad
MOTORISTS in Britain are being warned about using a dash cam while driving abroad as it could land you thousands of pounds worth of fines and even a prison sentence while abroad.
By Luke John Smith PUBLISHED: 08:14, Mon, Aug 6, 2018 UPDATED: 14:48, Mon, Aug 6, 2018
Drivers using dash cams in Europe can land fines of up to £9,000 (Image: GETTY)
Dash cams are becoming increasingly more popular in Britain, with drivers using to protect themselves in case of a crash.
In fact, some insurers are even recognising the benefit of dash cam footage in the instance of a crash and a claim and can offer drivers a discount for using them.
However, it is a different case across other countries in Europe.
A number of EU countries can punish drivers for using a dash cam while abroad and even risk a prison sentence for using them.
The use of a dash cam is completely illegal in Austria and drivers can be fined £9,000 for being caught using them and up to £22,000 for repeat offences.
In Luxembourg, drivers are banned from using them and can even face prison time for using them and in Portugal, motorists are banned from using or owning one.
While some EU countries completely ban them, there are some that allow driver stop film while driving but have serval restrictions in place in regards to sharing or using the footage.
For example in Germany, drivers can use them cameras but must not post it to social media and in France and Belgium footage is strictly only allowed for “private use”.
Tim Shallcross, head of technical policy and advice at IAM Roadsmart, said: “The dash cam can be a double-edged sword.
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"It may show that you were not to blame in a crash, but the camera itself and any memory card used with it can be seized by the police if they suspect an offence has been committed.
"The internet now has lots of examples of drivers and riders who have been convicted on the evidence of their own helmet camera or dash cam."
Austria
While it is not illegal to own a dash cam it is completely illegal to use and drivers could face fines of up to around £9,000 and up to £22,000 for repeat offenders.
Luxembourg
Owning a dash cam is allowed in Luxembourg, but using one is still totally illegal. If you take one, make sure it remains away and not in use.
Portugal
It is completely illegal to own and use a dash cam, so make sure you leave it at home.
Belgium
You can both own and use one, but only for ‘private use’. This means that if there is an accident, the driver is reasonable for informing all the parties before submitting the footage as evidence.
France
Similarly to Belgium, the cameras are restricted to private use and cannot upload the footage online. In the case of an accident, the footage must go straight to the police.
Germany
like in the UK and France, the camera must not restrict the driver’s view and if shared online any faces and number plates must be obscured to comply with the country’s privacy laws.
Norway
The rules echo those of them in the Uk in the sense that it must be out of the way of the driver’s view.
Switzerland
While it is not illegal to use a dash cam there are a lot of heavy restrictions which makes its uses fairly redundant.
It must not be used for entertainment and documenting a journey as there has to be a legal purpose to recording.
Other drivers must be aware they are being recorded. In addition to this strict privacy laws inhibit the illicit recording of people, places, and other cars that are not related to the incident.
Where in Europe it is legal to use a dash cam:
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Denmark
Italy
Malta
Netherlands
Serbia
Spain
Sweden
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