The National Super computing Center is expanding its infrastructure with NVIDIA technology.

Posted date: 18 Mar 2019

IT4Innovations National Super computing Center VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava today officially launched the NVIDIA DGX-2 computing system. The system is designed to deal with the most demanding tasks of artificial intelligence that achieve peak performance of 2 PetaFLOPs. The ceremony was attended by the President of the Moravian-Silesian Region, prof. Ivo Vondrák, Mayor of the City of Ostrava, Ing. Tomáš Macura and Rector of VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, prof. Václav Snášel. 

The IT4Innovations supercomputer family is expanding with the NVIDIA DGX-2, which was supplied by Czech company M Computers. The National Supercomputing Center integrates it into its infrastructure, which is provided by a broad base of users from academic, research and commercial institutions from the Czech Republic and abroad. "Our main mission is to enable Czech scientists to access high-tech technologies. This new system will allow them to keep up with the world in the field of artificial intelligence, which, together with digitization, is considered to be key to the development of society. That's why we decided to buy this unique device, "says Vít Vondrák, director of IT4Innovations. 

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