Spanish government strengthens AI capabilities of MareNostrum 5 supercomputer, managed by BSC
This upgrade, part of the Spanish government's Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2024, will increase MareNostrum 5's processing capacity by almost 50%, over 450 petaflops, or the ability to perform up to 450,000 trillion operations per second. Another of the main objectives of the strategy is the creation of a plan for language models in Spanish and co-official languages, ALIA, that are open and transparent, avoiding bias and improving the quality of applications. BSC will be the technical coordinator of the Language Model Plan, which will be fundamental for strength
Source: sciencebusiness.net