{"id":114460,"date":"2020-10-15T18:33:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T01:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nvidia-will-power-worlds-fastest-ai-supercomputer-to-be-located-in-europe"},"modified":"2020-10-15T18:33:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T01:33:20","slug":"nvidia-will-power-worlds-fastest-ai-supercomputer-to-be-located-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nvidia-will-power-worlds-fastest-ai-supercomputer-to-be-located-in-europe","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia will power world\u2019s fastest AI supercomputer, to be located in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nvidia-will-power-worlds-fastest-ai-supercomputer-to-be-located-in-europe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nvidia is is going to be powering the world\u2019s fastest AI supercomputer, a new system dubbed \u201cLeonardo\u201d that\u2019s being built by the Italian multi-university consortium <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/cineca\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" >CINECA,<\/a> a global supercomputing leader. The Leonardo system will offer as much as 10 exaflops of FP16 AI performance capabilities, and be made up of more than 14,000 Nvidia Ampere-based GPUS once completed.<\/p>\n<p>Leonardo will be one of four new supercomputers supported by a cross-European effort to advance high-performance computing capabilities in the region, which will eventually offer advanced AI capabilities for processing applications across both science and industry. Nvidia will also be supplying its Mellanox HDR InfiniBand networks to the project in order to enable performance across the clusters with low-latency broadband connections.<\/p>\n<p>The other computers in the cluster include MeluXina in Luxembourg and Vega in Slovenia, as well as a new supercooling unit coming online in the Czech Republic. The pan-European consortium also plans four more Supercomputers for Bulgaria, Finland, Portugal and Spain; though, those will follow later and specifics around their performance and locations aren\u2019t yet available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia is is going to be powering the world\u2019s fastest AI supercomputer, a new system dubbed \u201cLeonardo\u201d that\u2019s being built by the Italian multi-university consortium CINECA, a global supercomputing leader. The Leonardo system will offer as much as 10 exaflops of FP16 AI performance capabilities, and be made up of more than 14,000 Nvidia Ampere-based [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}