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AIST Taps HPE And Nvidia For Next-Gen AI Cloud Machine

July 12, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan is going to be installing the third generation of its AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure 3.0 supercomputer. …

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Inside Look Inside Japan’s ABCI AI Supercomputer Upgrade

July 8, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett Comments Off on Inside Look Inside Japan’s ABCI AI Supercomputer Upgrade

Japan is home to one of only a few designated AI supercomputers open to public and private research partnerships via its ABCI (AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure) system, which is set to reach nearly an exaflop of single-precision performance for ML workloads following a recent upgrade. …

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Japan’s ABCI System Shows The Subtleties Separating AI And HPC

October 12, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Governments like to spread the money around their indigenous IT companies when they can, and so it is with the AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure, or ABCI, supercomputer that is being commissioned by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. …

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