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Has the size of a dinner plate: the Wafer Scale Engine 2
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A matt golden shimmering processor, as big as a dinner plate: The Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences is the first scientific data center in Europe to use Wafer Scale Engine 2. It has 2.6 trillion transistors and 850,000 computing cores, the specially developed for artificial intelligence (AI) processes.
This was announced by the LRZ.
This means that the world's largest chip with the highest computing power for AI will be available to top Bavarian research in the future.
The computer architecture makes it possible to process large amounts of data using machine learning methods.
Possible applications are medical image processing or fluid mechanics in aerospace engineering.
"We are currently observing that the AI computing needs of our users are doubling every three to four months," said Professor Dieter Kranzlmüller, head of the LRZ.
The integration of processors, memory and networks on a single chip enables high performance and speed.
"This promises significantly more efficiency in data processing and thus faster groundbreaking scientific findings."
The Bavarian Science Minister Markus Blume (CSU) said: »The new superchip at the LRZ is the largest in the world to date and will open up new avenues for top-level Bavarian research.
With him we are sustainably strengthening Bavaria as an AI location.«
The Leibniz computer center of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences is an IT service provider for the Munich universities and Bavarian universities as well as a cooperation partner for scientific institutions in Europe.
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