AIST Partners with HPE and Nvidia to Develop Advanced Supercomputer

Along with Nvidia, AIST is building ABCI 3.0, a powerful AI machine in Japan.Its goal is to advance AI research and provide both the public and private sectors with a lot of processing power.

Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has chosen HPE and Nvidia to build a new AI-powered machine called ABCI 3.0.

It will be a cloud service that both public and private organisations can use to support big foundational models for generative AI. This will speed up the progress of research, development, innovation, and social application.

The new ABCI 3.0 from AIST will be built on HPE Cray XD systems with thousands of Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPUs connected by Nvidia Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. This is to meet the growing need for computing power in AI workloads, and it should be able to reach a theoretical peak of about 6.2 exaflops of half-precision (16-bit) performance.

As the number of AI projects in Japan grows, the planned ABCI 3.0 AI machine will help them meet their high computing needs.

Japan’s large-scale Open AI Computing Infrastructure, or ABCI 3.0, is the latest version of a system meant to speed up AI research and development.

This partnership shows that Japan is serious about improving its AI skills and making itself more technologically independent.

The project is part of a larger USD 1 billion plan by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) to improve the country’s computer resources through the Economic Security Fund. It is supported by METI and includes both ABCI activities and investments in cloud AI computing.