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NVIDIA and Japan Team Up to Boost AI Research
Japan and NVIDIA are working together to improve AI research and development by building a powerful new supercomputing infrastructure. The goal is to make generative AI, robots, and quantum computing better.
Japan will make big steps forward in its AI research and development after thousands of NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs are added to the AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure 3.0 (ABCI 3.0). This partnership, led by Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), aims to move study and development in generative AI forward in Japan.
Japan’s large-scale Open AI Computing Infrastructure has been updated to ABCI 3.0. This new version is meant to improve AI powers and encourage technological independence. HPE is in charge of putting the whole project together, and AIST and its business company AIST Solutions are in charge of it.
Through the Economic Security Fund, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) backs the project. This is part of a $1 billion investment in cloud AI software and computer resources.
It’s very important that NVIDIA is working on the project. The company says it will support research in generative AI, robots, and quantum computing. It also says it will invest in AI startups and offer full support, training, and education for its products.
The NVIDIA H200 GPUs and HPE Cray XD systems with NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking will be built into the ABCI 3.0 supercomputer, which will be based in Kashiwa.With 6 AI exaflops of computing power and 410 double-precision petaflops of general computing power, this setup will offer the fastest and most efficient processing power ever seen.
Revolutionary GPU Technology
Over 140 gigabytes of HBM3e memory that can transfer data at 4.8 terabytes per second make the NVIDIA H200 GPU a revolutionary part. Massively faster and bigger memory speeds up creative AI and big language models, which helps save energy and lowers the total cost of ownership.
Japan wants to be a world leader in AI, so it is paying for the creation of this machines. This will cut down on the time and money needed to create next-generation AI technologies.
The fact that NVIDIA and Japan are working together shows that they both want to drive AI research and development and turn huge amounts of data into intelligence that can be used.
