According to Reuters- Nvidia is constructing Israel's most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer to meet the increasing demand for AI applications. The cloud-based system, known as Israel-1, will be partially operational by the end of 2023 and is expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
Gilad Shainer, a senior vice president at Nvidia, highlighted the company's collaboration with 800 startups in Israel and tens of thousands of software engineers. The Israel-1 supercomputer aims to deliver up to eight exaflops of AI computing power, making it one of the fastest AI supercomputers globally. An exaflop represents the ability to perform 1 quintillion calculations per second.
According to Shainer, AI is considered the "most important technology in our lifetime," and the development of AI and generative AI applications requires large graphics processing units (GPUs). The supercomputer will enable companies in Israel to access the computational power needed for training on large datasets, facilitating the creation of solutions for more complex problems.
The supercomputer was developed by the former Mellanox team, which Nvidia acquired in 2019 for approximately $7 billion. Nvidia's initial focus for the supercomputer is to support its Israeli partners, but they may expand its use to collaborations with partners outside of Israel in the future.
In a separate announcement, Nvidia revealed its collaboration with the University of Bristol in the UK to build a new supercomputer using a newly developed Nvidia chip, aiming to compete with Intel and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
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