Sparxity, formerly SpiNNcloud, deploys JUBIS sparse-native rack at Jülich

Sparxity, the Dresden company formerly known as SpiNNcloud, has installed a sparse-native JUBIS rack at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre. The vendor claims 10x faster sparse solvers, 18x lower energy use and 20x shorter optimization time, without disclosing baselines.

• JUBIS uses server boards with 48 SpiNNaker2 chips, each with 152 Arm cores
• Vendor claims 10x solver speedup and 18x lower energy for event-based ML
• The multi-million-dollar install is funded via EFRE/JTF NRW 2021-2027
• Sparxity reports 3 tape-outs, over 70,000 chips and 30+ customers