The National Center for Supercomputing Applications, which operates as a unit of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has secured a $10 million award from the National Science Foundation to field an artificial intelligence-based supercomputer.
DeltaAI is projected to triple the AI-enabled computing capacity of NCSA and is expected to feature advanced web-based interfaces to support research efforts, the center said Wednesday.
“DeltaAI provides about double the performance of Delta and will be integrated into the same complex while also remaining separate projects,” said Bill Gropp, director of NCSA and principal investigator.
Gropp noted that DeltaAI will work to deliver capabilities for data science and simulation and supports NCSA’s mission to democratize high-performance computing.
