Whopping Volta GPU Cluster – Transforming Artificial Intelligence Research

巨大的 Volta GPU 集群 — 改变人工智能研究

• 批准号: LE200100049
• 负责人: Prof Branka Vucetic
• 金额: $ 60.01万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LE200100049
• 关键词: Whopping; Volta; GPU; Cluster; Transforming

Artificial intelligence (AI), as it continues to grow and evolve, is taking an increasingly leading role in strategic plans of the world’s leading economies, IT companies, and universities, with the promise to be a key driver in innovation, science, education, and society. This project will establish a whopping Volta graphical processing unit Cluster (wVGC) with the aim of smashing current impediments to compute-intensive AI research. The wVGC features a contemporary HPC system equipped with 120 most advanced NVIDIA Volta GPUs distributed in 30 high capable nodes. The wVGC will transform AI research in Australia, putting us on the same footing as leading research groups around the globe, and at the forefront of the world’s AI revolution.

随着人工智能（AI）的不断发展和演变，它在世界领先经济体、IT公司和大学的战略计划中发挥着越来越重要的作用，有望成为创新、科学、教育和社会的关键驱动力。该项目将建立一个巨大的Volta图形处理单元集群（wVGC），目的是打破目前对计算密集型人工智能研究的障碍。wVGC采用现代HPC系统，配备120个最先进的NVIDIA Volta GPU，分布在30个高性能节点中。wVGC将改变澳大利亚的人工智能研究，使我们与地球仪的领先研究团队处于同一地位，并处于世界人工智能革命的最前沿。