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Over the years, the supercomputer shifted from being pushed solely by extra “conventional” CPUs (central processing items) to being partly pushed by GPUs, the graphical processors that permit for AI optimization.
“Our present system, the MareNostrum 5, is already just a little bit optimized for AI,” mentioned Josep Maria Martorell, affiliate director on the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
The Commission chosen the mission and it is now sure to get an extra improve. But that improve should be greater than only a technical one, Martorell mentioned, on condition that the EU needs the brand new AI supercomputers to be accessible to startups.
“The want [of] a startup could be very totally different than the necessity [of] a scientist,” Martorell mentioned. Startups don’t simply want computing capability; additionally they want knowledge storage, which should be added to the supercomputing facility.
Over time, European AI startups should generate income to justify the Commission’s preliminary funding.
It’s arduous to say whether or not they’ll get there, particularly because it’s already a problem for main, established AI corporations.
Martens mentioned it might be arduous to keep away from U.S. Big Tech corporations in that regard in any case.
“Many AI startups, together with European startups, collaborate with Big Tech corporations within the [United States] … Microsoft, Google and so forth, Meta … as a result of these corporations have the worldwide enterprise fashions that may generate the income that it’s worthwhile to repay these funding prices. In Europe, we don’t have these corporations.”
