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Real AI To Create Europe's Premier Open-Source, Human-Centric LLM

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Monday, December 4, 2023

BELGRADE, Serbia, Dec. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- ASSEN - During the Data Science Conference 2023 in Belgrade on Thursday, 24 November, it was announced that Real AI won the ISCRA project. Real AI is chosen to build Europe's first-ever Human-Centered LLM on the world's 4th largest AI Computer Cluster 'LEONARDO'.

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  • Real AI is chosen to build Europe's first-ever Human-Centered LLM on the world's 4th largest AI Computer Cluster 'LEONARDO'.
  • - Tarry Singh, CEO, Real AI B.V.
    Real AI will build the first ever Human-Centered LLM (large language model) by allocating substantial computing power in millions of GPU hours from Leonardo, to significantly accelerate the development of a LLM from scratch.
  • This ambitious project positions Real AI at the forefront of AI development, committed to environmental stewardship and technological innovation.
  • Transformation Lab in 2018 and most recently (together with Real AI) is a founding member of Europe's first Human-Centered AI Masters.

D-Wave and QuantumBasel Extend Agreement to Accelerate Commercial Adoption and Production Use of Quantum Technology in Europe

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Thursday, October 26, 2023

D-Wave and QuantumBasel signed their initial strategic collaboration agreement in December 2022, in which D-Wave was named as a quantum technology provider for QuantumBasel, giving the center’s tenants and customers access to its Advantage annealing quantum computer via the Leap™ real-time quantum cloud service.

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  • D-Wave and QuantumBasel signed their initial strategic collaboration agreement in December 2022, in which D-Wave was named as a quantum technology provider for QuantumBasel, giving the center’s tenants and customers access to its Advantage annealing quantum computer via the Leap™ real-time quantum cloud service.
  • Our collaboration is a promise to drive quantum advancements and progress towards broader commercial adoption," said Damir Bogdan, CEO of QuantumBasel.
  • “Today’s announcement reflects strong progress toward achieving that mission, as joint customers are quickly realizing the near-term advantage of D-Wave’s quantum technology.
  • Through our collaboration and now our European office presence, we anticipate accelerated momentum for quantum and quantum-hybrid applications moving into production and fueling operations.”

DDN Customer CINECA Posts Dominating Bandwidth Score and Recognized on IO500 List for Production Systems

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Tuesday, June 6, 2023

CHATSWORTH, Calif., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced that it achieved the highest bandwidth score for a production system on the IO500 benchmark in conjunction with customer CINECA on its Leonardo supercomputing system. The Leonardo system, delivering AI and HPC computing power to tackle urgent societal challenges, won first place for highest bandwidth for systems running production workloads in the most recently announced IO500 at ISC High Performance (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany, with a score of 807.12 GB/s. 

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  • This achievement underscores DDN's track record of delivering scalable and reliable storage solutions for the world's most significant production AI and HPC systems.
  • "When systems this size run around-the-clock workloads with meaningful research and commercial outcomes, the supporting storage systems must also be efficient and reliable."
  • The IO500 list is an essential benchmark for the efficiency of storage systems in AI and HPC supercomputing environments.
  • The Production List narrows the number of eligible systems to those that meet a stricter definition of production system.

Tachyum Prodigy Offers 128 AI Exaflops for Slovakia’s €70M World Fastest AI Supercomputer

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Wednesday, May 18, 2022

As the detailed Prodigy design has matured, we have verified Prodigys much higher performance; significantly exceeding that which we originally projected.

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  • As the detailed Prodigy design has matured, we have verified Prodigys much higher performance; significantly exceeding that which we originally projected.
  • With its higher performance and performance per dollar and per watt, Tachyum's Prodigy processor will enable Slovakia to procure the worlds fastest AI supercomputer.
  • Delivering up to 128 exaflops of AI computing performance, this updated system will double its AI performance for the same 70 million EUR budget, enabling double the AI training and inference, at no additional cost.
  • Additional details about the Slovakian supercomputer proposal include:
    The datacenter footprint of the Air-Cooled Prodigy Supercomputer is 107 racks of computer nodes and 10 racks of storage.

Engitix Announces $54m Series A Financing and a Strategic Collaboration with Dompé Farmaceutici Using Exscalate’s AI Supercomputing Power to Advance its Drug Discovery Pipeline in Fibrosis and Cancer

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Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Alongside its internal pipeline, Engitix will seek to expand its pharma and biotech collaborations.

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  • Alongside its internal pipeline, Engitix will seek to expand its pharma and biotech collaborations.
  • This round will enable us to advance our pre-clinical programmes against targets identified using our ECM platform through candidate selection and IND-enabling studies.
  • Engitix is developing a portfolio of internal & partnered drug discovery programmes in fibrosis and solid tumours using its pioneering human extracellular matrix (ECM) platform.
  • It conducts research activities as part of a network of over 300 centres and universities across the world.

D-Wave to Host Qubits Conference, Featuring Global 2000 Customers

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Wednesday, September 22, 2021

BURNABY, Canada, Sept. 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- D-Wave Systems Inc., the leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, today announced it will host its annual global Qubits Conference on October 5-7.

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  • BURNABY, Canada, Sept. 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- D-Wave Systems Inc., the leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, today announced it will host its annual global Qubits Conference on October 5-7.
  • Programming will also include a Japanese-language portion the morning of October 6th JST, featuring use cases from customers including Sigma-i, Groovenauts, and NEC.
  • We are proud to host Qubits, and we look forward to growing our passionate community of change-makers.
  • D-Wave has a blue-chip investor base including PSP Investments, Goldman Sachs, BDC Capital, NEC Corp., Aegis Group Partners, and In-Q-Tel.

CINECA and D-Wave Expand Access to Quantum Computing Technology and Resources in Italy

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Tuesday, May 11, 2021

This access includes D-Wave\xe2\x80\x99s hybrid quantum/classical solvers, which leverage both quantum solutions and best-in-class classical algorithms to run large-scale business-critical problems.

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  • This access includes D-Wave\xe2\x80\x99s hybrid quantum/classical solvers, which leverage both quantum solutions and best-in-class classical algorithms to run large-scale business-critical problems.
  • CINECA is aligned with us in that mission and committed to helping their ecosystem build practical and applied quantum computing applications.\xe2\x80\x9d\n\xe2\x80\x9cAt CINECA we are very happy to be part of this agreement with D-Wave.
  • Quantum computing is a field that has been strongly emerging in recent years,\xe2\x80\x9d said Sanzio Bassini, Head of the HPC Department at CINECA.
  • This is the key to educating a team with no prior experience and helping them evaluate the endless possibilities offered by quantum systems.\xe2\x80\x9d\nTo learn more about how CINECA and D-Wave are working together to expand access to quantum computing technology and resources in Italy click here .