Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NVIDIA Announce World’s Most Powerful AI-Capable Supercomputer
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre's “Alps” system infrastructure is expected to be the world’s most powerful AI-capable supercomputer when it comes online in 2023.
About CSCS
Founded in 1991, CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, develops and promotes technical and scientific services for the Swiss research community in the fields of high-performance computing. CSCS enables world-class scientific research by pioneering, operating and supporting leading-edge supercomputing technologies. The center collaborates with domestic and foreign researchers, and carries out its own research in scientific computing. Located at Lugano, in the southern, Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, CSCS is a unit of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich).
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud platform as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent technology solutions, with a consistent experience across all clouds and edges, to help customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more information, visit: www.hpe.com.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA‘s (NASDAQ: NVDA) invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market and has redefined modern computer graphics, high performance computing and artificial intelligence. The company’s pioneering work in accelerated computing and AI is reshaping trillion-dollar industries, such as transportation, healthcare and manufacturing, and fueling the growth of many others. More information at https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the benefits, performance, features and impact of the Alps supercomputer; the creation of the world’s most powerful AI-capable supercomputer; the timing for Alps to come online, what it will replace and the purpose it will serve; what Alps will enable and its applications and uses; how CSCS is enabling scientific breakthroughs; what Alps will use to build a data center infrastructure; supercomputers fueling discovery; CSCS and HPE’s collaboration and them designing a new system; CSCS being equipped to harness new insights from data and advancing our world; and NVIDIA, HPE and CSCS blazing a trail and building a supercomputing infrastructure that will let scientists to apply the power of AI are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our partners’ products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems; as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the most recent reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company’s website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.
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