{"id":6118,"date":"2021-04-20T14:04:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T12:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investincotedazur.com\/?p=6118"},"modified":"2023-02-10T14:06:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T13:06:05","slug":"sophia-antipolis-hewlett-packard-enterprise-selected-to-build-a-supercomputer-for-the-maison-de-lintelligence-artificielle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investincotedazur.com\/en\/sophia-antipolis-hewlett-packard-enterprise-selected-to-build-a-supercomputer-for-the-maison-de-lintelligence-artificielle\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Antipolis : Hewlett Packard Enterprise selected to build a supercomputer for the Maison de l’Intelligence Artificielle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The establishment of a Hewlett Packard Enterprise computing platform at the Maison de l’Intelligence Artificielle (MIA), will give students, researchers and start-ups access to a high-performance infrastructure to carry out artificial intelligence and machine learning projects.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise<\/a> (NYSE: HPE) announced that it has been chosen to build a compute and machine learning platform for the Maison de l’Intelligence Artificielle (MIA) located in Sophia Antipolis (C\u00f4te d’Azur). This public space, the largest technology park in Europe entirely devoted to Artificial Intelligence and its applications<\/a>, was created by Charles Ange Gin\u00e9sy, President of the Alpes-Maritimes region. HPE was selected by the Alpes-Maritimes Departmental Council, the Maison de l’Intelligence Artificielle and Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d’Azur (UCA) to provide an end-to-end infrastructure based on its industry-leading high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, powered by HPE Apollo Systems\u00a0as well as\u00a0HPE Nimble Storage\u00a0capabilities.
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In January 2018, Charles Ange Gin\u00e9sy became aware of the societal and industrial transformation underway and implemented the SMART Deal digital transition plan. The aim of this initiative is to modernize the operations of public administration and improve the quality of life of its inhabitants while responding to the challenges of the territory, in line with the French government’s ambition to make France a leader in AI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\n“The\u00a0<\/i>Maison de l’Intelligence Artificielle, a unique place in France, allows everyone to discover and experiment with artificial intelligence. All the players in the C\u00f4te d’Azur’s AI ecosystem can come together there to co-construct the region’s expertise,\u201d\u00a0<\/i>explained\u00a0Charles Ange Gin\u00e9sy, President of the Alpes-Maritimes Department and Chairman of the Syndicat Mixte de la MIA.\u00a0<\/b><\/span>\u201cThe computing platform provided by HPE is part of this approach and will be shared with free access. This new-generation, high-performance solution will be made available to start-ups hosted at the MIA, experimental projects for the region, as well as to Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d’Azur students to enable them to carry out various research and innovation projects. The MIA was inaugurated in March 2020: through it, we hope to instill a national, and perhaps European dynamic on artificial intelligence, in order to win our place on the international scene, which is currently dominated by America and Asia<\/i>.”\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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To support the MIA mission, HPE designed an end-to-end infrastructure that combines advanced computing and intelligent storage capabilities. This new infrastructure will be implemented by\u00a0HPE Pointnext Services\u00a0and built on\u00a0HPE Apollo 6500 Gen10 Systems\u00a0specifically designed for high performance computing (HPC) and deep learning capabilities with NVIDIA\u00ae Quadro RTX\u2122 6000 GPUs. The system will also utilize HPE Nimble Storage, an intelligent, self-managed storage platform to enable MIA users to securely run, process and store large amounts of data and complex models. This technology collaboration with MIA further strengthens HPE’s significant investment in France\u00a01<\/sup>, supporting innovation with the latest high-performance computing and AI technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n

The MIA offers 24\/7 access to its computing and storage resources to UCA students and startups hosted on site thanks to a partnership with the\u00a0Paca-Est incubator to process their complex tasks and deep learning models. The MIA is also open to students and the general public to discover AI through various activities, demonstrators and events.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Here are some examples of projects for which students, researchers or engineers will use the resources of the Maison de l’Intelligence Artificielle:<\/span><\/p>\n