Christofari
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Christofari is a supercomputer created by Sberbank of Russia and Nvidia. It was presented by Herman Gref, CEO of Sberbank, and David Rafalovsky, CTO, on 8 November 2019, at the AI Journey conference.[1]
As of January 2020, this is the only Russian supercomputer designed specifically for working with artificial intelligence algorithms. It is capable of training software models based on complex neural networks in unprecedentedly short time. The supercomputer can be used for research, commercial and government organizations working in various economic sectors, such as oil and gas, electric power, heavy industry, healthcare, telecommunications, retail, and financial sector.[2]
The supercomputer is named after Nikolai Christofari, the first customer of Sberbank, holder of the Bank's first savings account passbook.[3]
Overview
Developed by Sberbank's subsidiary SberCloud in a partnership with Nvidia, the machine is based on high-performance NVIDIA DGX-2 nodes[4] equipped with Tesla V100[5] compute accelerators.[6]
Christofari has demonstrated a benchmark power of about 6.7 petaflops, making it the 29th most powerful computer in the world,[6] the seventh in Europe, and the first in Russia.[7]
Applications
The supercomputer is available for rent for the cost of 5,750 rubles per minute. When not leased to customers, it will be provided to universities and academic structures.
Christofari is available to SberCloud cloud service users since December 12, 2019.
Sberbank already uses Christofari for speech recognition when analyzing customer calls to the bank's call center, as well as for the work of automated robot operator. SberCloud cloud platform customers are already using and testing the supercomputer.
See also
References
- ^ "Sberbank presents Russia's fastest supercomputer". Sberbank. 8 November 2019 – via Finextra.
- ^ "Несколько десятков компаний начали работу на запущенном Сбербанком суперкомпьютере". ТАСС. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
- ^ "Сбербанк представил самый мощный в России суперкомпьютер «Кристофари»". hightech.fm (in Russian). 2019-11-08. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
- ^ "NVIDIA DGX-2". Nvidia.
- ^ "NVIDIA Tesla V100". Nvidia.
- ^ a b "Christofari - NVIDIA DGX-2, Xeon Platinum 8168 24C 2.7GHz, Mellanox InfiniBand EDR, NVIDIA Tesla V100". TOP500. November 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
- ^ a b "Three Russian supercomputers entered top 500 of most powerful world computers". Russkiy Mir. 19 November 2019.
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