The supercomputer is expected to be operational by the end of 2023 and will be a “boon” to Israel’s burgeoning AI scene, according to Nvidia Vice President Gilad Scheiner. mention it Nvidia works with 800 startups across the countrywhich employs tens of thousands of software engineers.
“Artificial intelligence is the most important technology in our lives,” Shiner told Reuters. However, he emphasized the critical role of large graphics processing units (GPUs) in the development of AI and generative AI applications. “Generative AI is everywhere these days. So you need to be able to do training on large data sets,” he added.
Israel-1 will give Israeli companies access to a giant computing resource that is expected to speed up AI training, making it easier to create frameworks and solutions that can handle more complex problems. For example, ChatGPT developed by OpenAI has been trained using thousands of Nvidia GPUs.
The system, called Israel-1, is expected to be as well Eight exaflops computing power It will provide it, making it one of the fastest artificial intelligence supercomputers in the world. An exaflop can perform 1 quintillion – that is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 – computations per second – writes Reuters.
The Israel-1 system was developed by a team from the former Mellanox, an Israeli chip design company that was acquired by Nvidia. In 2019, it was acquired for approximately $7 billion, before Intel. Although the new supercomputer will mainly serve Nvidia’s Israeli partners, the company does not rule out expanding its customer base. “We may be able to use this system to work with partners outside of Israel in the future,” Shiner revealed.
In related news, Nvidia announced last week that it is working with the University of Bristol in the UK to build a new supercomputer. With this step, Nvidia will be able to become a competitor to Chiporians, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
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