NVIDIA today announced that Vietnam has deployed the new NVIDIA DGX A100 system for the first time at VinAI, the country’s first AI research laboratory. The NVIDIA DGX A100 delivers 5 petaflops of AI computing power and integrates 8 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs. This new AI system is perfectly suited for training language, images, videos, as well as other ambitious projects that require vast amounts of GPU power and high-speed connectivity technology.
The research laboratory aims to enhance the understanding of the fundamentals of Machine Learning and Deep Learning and to explore how to enable new AI methods through a computational perspective and be understood in natural language. VinAI will focus on developing new AI applications, especially those that facilitate human interaction with machines through voice, gestures, behavior, and biometrics or from smart devices and sensors.
From its strategic position in Southeast Asia, VinAI recognizes that it must engage in major issues in developing countries that may be overlooked in the research community. This has contributed to the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic by automatically analyzing online comments regarding COVID-19 events and enabling the recognition of mask-wearing individuals.
VinAI aims to expand its NVIDIA DGX-1 supercomputer cluster to improve scalability and performance, particularly for training large Vietnamese language models. The NVIDIA DGX A100 is the ideal solution to boost the performance of demanding AI workloads from training to data analysis inference.
“Our laboratory’s utilization is always at a maximum of 100%, so the new DGX A100 system will give our team the computational power to tackle our most complex problems,” said Dr. Bui Hai Hung, Director of VinAI.
“Our medical imaging team is also using NVIDIA Clara for some tasks, so we hope some of our work can be pushed upstream. About 70 researchers, residents, and engineers will rely on the new AI system and will be part of VinAI’s NVIDIA DGX cluster. This number is expected to double by the end of this year,” he added.
“The new NVIDIA DGX A100 will help VinAI optimize computational power and resources to accelerate diverse workloads and also establish scalability easily as demand increases. We will work closely with VinAI at an architectural level and from a developer perspective to ensure success in their AI projects,” said Dennis Ang, Director, Enterprise Business, SEA and ANZ at NVIDIA.
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