KUALA LUMPUR, March 28 (Bernama) -- Preferred Networks Inc. (PFN) announced today that it will launch an expanded version of its MN-1 private sector supercomputer equipped with NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) and NTT PC Communications Incorporated (NTT PC) next-generation GPU platform.
NTT Com, in a statement said the expanded version supercomputer would be launched by July.
The new MN-1b supercomputer will adopt the NVIDIA Tesla V100 32GB, that was announced at GTC 2018, California, USA yesterday.
"PFN plans to enhance the MN-1 by adding 512 NVIDIA Tesla V100 32GB GPUs and have them up and running by July, with the added GPUs having a theoretical peak performance of about 56 PetaFLOPS, a massive 56,000 trillion floating-point operations per second, based on a mixed precision floating-point operation used in deep learning.
"This means the expansion alone will contribute to a roughly threefold increase from the current peak," NTT Com said.
PFN will use the new MN-1b to raise the speed of its Chainer open source deep-learning framework and further accelerate its research and development (R&D) in fields that require a huge amount of computing resources.
Going forward, NTT Com expects to increasingly support the delivery of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and related platforms for advanced research and commercialised deep learning, including the AI business initiatives of PFN.
"With NTT Com Group's experience of establishing and managing highly reliable data center services, combined with NVIDIA's latest high-speed GPUs for deep learning, we sincerely look forward to R&D results in the fields of transportation systems, manufacturing and biotech/healthcare," said vice-president of Corporate Sales and NVIDIA Japan country manager, Masataka Osaki.
NTT Com provides consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services to optimise the information and communications technology environments of enterprises.
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