HPE to build supercomputer to 'enhance Japan's AI sovereignty'

HPE is to build a supercomputer for Japan's AIST research institution, using thousands of Nvidia's latest H200 GPUs to support large foundational models for generative AI in research. The ABCI 3.0 (AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure) system is to be offered as a cloud service to both public and private organizations by AIST ( …

[alain williams]

Has Japan's AIST research institution ...

checked the contract to see if there are any pay per usage clauses and restrictions that stop "non genuine" replacement parts ?

This could be an expensive bit of kit to be bricked.

[An_Old_Dog]

Mixed Metaphors, Cui Bono?

Ah, here comes ... and there goes ... the herd of stampeding cattle, chasing after the latest bandwagon. That bandwagon has been repainted so many times, in the colors of:

* the Prolog programming language (designed to be used for AI development)

* Expert systems

* Blockchain-derived systems

* Quantum computing

* (false-) AI/(real-) ML systems

As far as I can see, the only benefit from these things was to enrich software and/or hardware companies, salespeople-on-commission, researchers and consultants in those areas, fraudsters, and some clever stock traders.

[UnknownUnknown]

Re: Mixed Metaphors, Cui Bono?

Megabit barns for AI.

Please just make Siri and Alexa less dumb as shit, and also buy them a fucking hearing aid.