Nvidia announced today that it is building the strongest supercomputer in the UK to help British medical researchers use AI to solve urgent medical problems, including those caused by new coronary pneumonia.
Naijatechnews understands that the supercomputer is named Cambridge-1 (Cambridge-1) and is expected to be launched at the end of the year. It is ranked 29th in the latest TOP500 list of the world’s strongest supercomputers and the third largest energy-saving supercomputer in the world. computer.
Cambridge-1 will be an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD system, supported by 80 NVIDIA DGX A100s, connected by NVIDIA Mellanox InfiniBand network, capable of providing AI performance of more than 4 trillion floating point operations per second and 80 million floating point operations The linear performance. To ensure the construction on schedule, NVIDIA will invest approximately 40 million pounds.
Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia, said in a keynote speech at the GPU Technology Conference: “To deal with the most pressing challenges in the global medical field requires the use of the powerful computing resources of artificial intelligence.” According to the plan, the Cambridge-1 supercomputer will become the UK’s innovation center and will further promote the pioneering work done by British researchers in key healthcare and drug discovery.
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