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Nvidia Expands Genomics Activities With Supercomputer, New Partnerships

Oct 07, 2020
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Neil Versel
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CHICAGO – Nvidia is teaming with Oxford Nanopore Technologies, a branch of the UK's National Health Service, and two major pharmaceutical companies develop what the technology company said will be Britain's most powerful supercomputer.

Called Cambridge-1, the supercomputer will feature Nvidia DGX SuperPod supercomputing infrastructure, based on the company's recently introduced A100 graphics processing unit (GPU) and related DGX A100, a box that holds eight A100 processors and related server hardware to increase computational speed.

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