Argonne flexes spare supercompute to build private AI inference service
Argonne National Laboratory has launched a new AI inference service utilizing spare supercomputing capacity. This service aims to assist researchers across the U.S. in advancing scientific discovery by providing access to various large language models. The initiative is designed to enable secure data analysis and experimentation without the need for individual infrastructure.
- ▪The AI inference service is built from spare supercomputing resources at Argonne National Laboratory.
- ▪It runs on two clusters, including the Sophia system with Nvidia A100 GPUs and the Metis system with SambaNova AI accelerators.
- ▪Researchers can access a range of large language models through a chatbot-like portal for secure data analysis.
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