NVIDIA and University of Florida Release New AI Curriculum Spanning All Educational Disciplines

The University of Florida (UF) wants to be a top-five public university, and it's turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to meet that goal. Back in May 2020, UF was the first higher education institution in the U.S. to receive NVIDIA's (NASDAQ: NVDA) newest DGX A100 data center computing unit. Just a few months later, the AI initiative is expanding in grand fashion via a $50 million gift and an additional $20 million invested by UF to help the university build the most powerful supercomputer system in the academic world.

UF's new $70 million system (which builds upon its existing HiPerGator supercomputer) should be up and running by early 2021 and will be able to handle 700 petaflops per second. A petaflop is how supercomputing power is measured, one petaflop equating to one quadrillion floating point operations per second. Simply put, this new NVIDIA-powered data center will be very powerful.  

The NVIDIA DGX A100. Image source: NVIDIA.

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