Nvidia collaborates with the University of Florida to build 700-petaflop AI supercomputer

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Nvidia collaborates with the University of Florida to build 700-petaflop AI supercomputer
July 21, 2020
https://venturebeat.com/2020/07/21/...orida-to-build-700-petaflop-ai-supercomputer/

Nvidia and the University of Florida (UF) today announced plans to build the fastest AI supercomputer in academia. By enhancing the capabilities of UF’s existing HiPerGator supercomputer with the DGX SuperPod architecture, Nvidia claims the system — which it expects will be up and running by early 2021 — will deliver 700 petaflops (one quadrillion floating point operations per second) of performance.

Some researchers within the AI community believe that capable computers, in conjunction with reinforcement learning and other techniques, can achieve paradigm-shifting AI advances.
A paper recently published by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Underwood International College, and the University of Brasilia found that deep learning improvements have been “strongly reliant” on increases in compute.
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The initiatives and HiPerGator enhancements are anchored by a $50 million gift — $25 million from UF alumnus and Nvidia fellow Chris Malachowsky and $25 million in hardware, software, training, and services from Nvidia.
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Nvidia: University of Florida, NVIDIA to Build Fastest AI Supercomputer in Academia

Effort will infuse AI throughout UF’s curriculum and help address wide range of challenges across the state
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