MBZUAI advances the UAE’s national strategy for AI with new supercomputer built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise

MBZUAI advances the UAE’s national strategy for AI with new supercomputer built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced it is building a new supercomputer for Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), a university dedicated solely to AI, to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery and advance the UAE’s goal to be a global AI leader. HPE’s robust supercomputing and AI technologies will significantly enhance the university’s ability to run complex AI models with extremely large data sets, and increase predictability in research analyses in fields including energy, transportation and the environment.

Supercomputing is vital to delivering AI-at-scale, and driving global innovation, industry competitiveness, and economic growth. From accelerating vaccine discovery to fight a pandemic, and advancing clean energy systems to increase sustainability, to enabling new possibilities in AI, supercomputing is a core technology to solving the world’s most challenging scientific and engineering challenges.

Established in 2019, MBZUAI has already ranked 24th in the world for artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, and natural language processing. The new supercomputer will help MBZUAI support the UAE’s National Strategy for AI, bringing together the power of academia, government, and industry to strengthen the country’s global competitiveness. The advanced supercomputing and AI technologies will also expand resources for larger projects to allow