Macau – May 5, 2020 — Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) has built a next generation artificial intelligence (AI) High Performance Computing (HPC) Center to meet its high-intensity AI computing needs. Funded by the Macau Science and Technology Development Fund, the center has been officially launched and will be used to improve the quality of teaching and research, cultivate future talents, promote a smart campus, and inject new energy into the metropolitan’s smart city endeavor.
MUST's AI HPC Platform
MUST appointed Automated Systems (Macau), an IT service provider, to design a high-performing GPU server cluster for the center to support the needs of different AI computing scenarios. These include smart healthcare (early diagnosis of cancers and analysis of cardiac imaging data), smart city (facial recognition, crowd management and traffic big data analysis), network security (cloud data security and network intrusion detection), and the research on space and planets, etc. The cluster was built primarily on the latest DGX series, an AI computing platform from NVIDIA, a leading provider for AI technology and FlashBlade, a high-performance all-flash storage system from Pure Storage, the IT pioneer that delivers storage as a service.
The new HPC center provides an enhanced environment for teaching and research, and these improvements are realized in three ways:
"To support the development of a smart city, MUST has been dedicated to the research and advancement of a smart campus in recent years." says Professor Du Zhang Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology of MUST. “The newly opened AI HPC Center can enhance the AI research in MUST, including machine learning, big data technology, industrial intelligence and automation, and smart city, etc. The AI computing platform at the HPC center offers extraordinary reliability, performance and scalability. It is believed to be the largest AI computing center in Macau.
MUST strives to join hands with industry leaders to support the SAR government’s smart city initiative and provide a better environment for academic studies. The in-depth collaboration between MUST and IT industry leaders on the HPC center represents the level of importance of AI recognized by both academic and businesses. The HPC center provides researchers with the key equipment and resources they require for their research and development. MUST will continue to maintain a long-term working relationship with Automated Systems (Macau), NVIDIA, and Pure Storage in an effort to train innovative talents for "Smart Macau”.
Automated Systems (Macau) Limited
With 45 years of experience in system integration, Automated Systems (Macau) Limited is a well-known System Integrator in Macau. Its business scope ranges from providing computers and peripherals to system integration, from networking and system installation to software/hardware maintenance, from security assessment to 24/7 surveillance, from data management to big data analysis, and from project management to consulting services.
NVIDIA
The invention of GPU in 1999 not only boosted the growth of the gaming market and redefined computer graphics, it also revolutionized parallel computing. GPU in recent years has become the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving automobiles, and its development has propelled the next generation of computing technology and the evolution of artificial intelligence.
Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) gives technologists their time back. Pure delivers a modern data experience that empowers organisations to run their operations as a true, automated, storage as-a-service model seamlessly across multiple clouds. One of the fastest-growing enterprise IT companies in history, Pure helps customers put data to use while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. And with a certified customer satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure's ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the world.
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