Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced it will build a new supercomputer powered by NVIDIA, AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology). AIST?s next-generation supercomputer, ABCI (AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure) 3.0, will be offered as a cloud service to public and private organizations to support large foundational models for generative AI to accelerate the advancement of research, development, innovation, and social implementation. AIST?s new ABCI 3.0 will be built using HPE Cray XD systems featuring NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs, interconnected by NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, to address growing AI workload demands for computational resources and is expected to achieve a theoretical maximum of approximately 6.2 exaflops of half-precision (16-bit) performance.

ABCI 3.0, which is slated to be the fastest AI supercomputer in Japan, will help meet the high demand for computing resources for the country?s growing number of AI workloads. Since 2018, AIST has made its cloud supercomputing services accessible to research institutions, universities, and commercial companies of all sizes, from startups to major electronics manufacturers. AIST?s ABCI systems have supported a range of scientific research, including the development of AI techniques to predict genome sequencing and materials informatics, and Japanese large language models (LLMs).