The Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence has a tailor -made calculation machine dedicated to AI

While artificial intelligence is a global issue, the Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence (SCAI) is one of the French references in terms of research.The center brings together a strategic range of modern AI disciplines in one place in the heart of Paris and recently announced to have a tailor -made calculation machine.This acquisition, scheduled for next January, took advantage of the support of the Sorbonne University Foundation and that of Data4.

The SCAI is a structure of the Sorbonne Université alliance which brings together the communities of the three Faculties of Letters and Humanities, Sciences and Engineering as well as Medicine of Sorbonne University, as well as the members of the Alliance Sorbonne Universités (UTC, MNHN, INSEAD).

The ambition of this center dedicated to artificial intelligence is to contribute significantly to the excellence of interdisciplinary research and teaching in AI by promoting exchanges between researchers, students and industrialists.For this, it welcomes students, researchers and companies in its offices in Paris, located in the Esclagon building on the Pierre and Marie Curie campus of Sorbonne University but also in Abu Dhabi, on the Sorbonne campus Abu Dhabi.This last research space is dedicated to industrial research chairs and initial and continuous training.

Artificial intelligence at the service of all disciplines

Modern AI requires computing power to test deep learning algorithms and deploy them on large masses of data.Teachers and researchers do not always have adequate equipment to meet the scientific challenges of tomorrow.

This new equipment controlled by the SCAI, at the cutting edge of technology, will benefit the entire scientific community of the three Faculties of Sorbonne University, both in terms of research and training.In particular, it may be used by the Villefranche Sea Institute in order to analyze marine biodiversity, by the Faculty of Medicine for prediction from patient files, and by the Faculty of Letters for Automation of Places in18th century French literature.

The SCAI plans to rely on this additional calculation power to develop its programming education platform on a larger scale, a project that will be created in early 2022.

The center can acquire this calculation machine dedicated to AI thanks to the support of the Data4 company through the Sorbonne University Foundation and via internal co-financing.Data4, French specialist in Data Centers in Europe, thus engages alongside the university, allowing him to strengthen his innovation capacity.Dr. Xavier Fresquet, deputy director of Scai, declares:

L’équipement construit sur mesure (GPU, processeur, RAM, SSD) sera installé sur le campus Pierre & Marie Curie.