Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine Outperforms World's #1 Supercomputer, Achieving Long-Timescale Molecular Dynamics Simulations 179x Faster

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cerebras Systems, the pioneer in accelerating generative AI, in collaboration with researchers from Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos National Laboratories, have achieved an extraordinary breakthrough in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Using the second generation Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE-2), researchers were able to perform atomic scale simulations at the millisecond scale – 179x faster than what is possible on the world's leading superc