The domestic technology company Datakom and its specialized artificial intelligence department AI Datacenter Engineers have created the first private high-performance supercomputer cluster designed for running and training artificial intelligence models, reports Jūlija Pīlēna, Datakom Marketing Manager.
The Datakom supercomputer cluster consists of a combination of two machines that reaches two petaflops of power. This means the system can perform two quadrillion calculations every second. With such power, it is possible to run, for example, an artificial intelligence video processing and analysis system, a local artificial intelligence chatbot with 400-billion-parameter models, or use it as a local software development and analysis assistant.
“This is a real, fully fledged supercomputer that is now available to any company in the Baltics. Compared with the currently most powerful Apple computer, the Studio, which has 100 processor cores, this supercomputer has 12.3 thousand computing cores connected in an ultra-fast data transmission network, ensuring almost real-time operation between processors,” says Datakom Head of Business Development Edijs Tanons. He points out that not so long ago – in 2020 – such performance was available only to the world’s wealthiest companies, which could afford to use one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Today, technological progress makes it possible to “democratize” this enormous power and make it available right here in Latvia.
“This is no longer an exclusive resource only for global giants. Now any ambitious Baltic company or public institution can deploy such an artificial intelligence power station in its own data center, ensuring full data sovereignty. This is a truly significant turning point in the development of Baltic information technology infrastructure,” emphasizes E. Tanons.
Today, more and more companies are using artificial intelligence and integrating it into their products and services. Artificial intelligence systems can be compared to a train. That is, a working system consists of many machine learning software components – just as a train consists of carriages. And to move this train from a standstill, you need a powerful locomotive or even several – computer clusters – to pull the carriages in the desired direction. “These artificial intelligence system “carriages” are heavy and numerous, which is why it was not possible to pull what we can now with the computers previously available,” explains E. Tanons.
The primary task of such a supercomputer is to serve as a foundation for running private, independent artificial intelligence models – from adapting large language models to the Latvian language to sensitive data analytics in the financial and defence sectors, without using public cloud services.
Originally published at https://inc-baltics.com/izveidots-baltija-pirmais-privatais-maksliga-intelekta-superdatora-klasteris/
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