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• NVIDIA reports that it is building the “Cambridge-1” supercomputer- which will be an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD system capable of delivering 400+ petaflops of AI performance and 8 petaflops of Linpack performance and 1s expected to come online by the end of 2020
• GSK and AstraZeneca will be the first company to harness Cambridge-1 for research. Additionally- Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust- King’s College London- and Oxford Nanopore Technologies also plan to take advantage of the system
• Cambridge-1 will be the first NVIDIA supercomputer designed and built for external research access and will provide researchers and academics the ability to tackle challenging AI training- inference- and data science workloads at scale. NVIDIA will invest ~ $51.7M in Cambridge-1

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