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UF’s HiPerGator supercomputer ranked among best in the world
‘The University of Florida is not just keeping pace with the future of AI, it is helping define it.’
The University of Florida is home the fastest university-owned supercomputers in the U.S.
That’s according to several technology observers that surveyed the UF HiPerGator supercomputer. The TOP500, the TOP500 High Performance Conjugate Gradient and the IO500, all tech assessment systems, made the analysis.
Officials with UF launched the next generation of the school’s HiPerGator computer system in October. The system features an extension of the school’s artificial intelligence initiative that began five years ago. The latest rankings reflect UF’s efforts in developing the system in a collaboration with NVIDIA to expand AI education and research.
“As a wise person once said: If you are a leader, you will know,” said Erik Deumens, Director of UF Information Technology Research Computing. “Not because someone declares you to be, but because people will come to you for guidance.”
The IO500 benchmark placed HiPerGator at the top of its list of the fastest university-owned supercomputers in the world, and ranked it 10th among fastest supercomputers overall.
The TOP500 placed HiPerGator as the 10th-fastest university-owned supercomputer in the world and 106th-fastest overall.
The TOP500 High-Performance Conjugate Gradient ranked the HiPerGator the fifth-fastest supercomputer in higher education and the 32nd-fastest supercomputer in the world among all sectors.
“The University of Florida is not just keeping pace with the future of AI, it is helping define it,” said NVIDIA co-founder and UF alumnus Chris Malachowsky. “Our collaboration empowers faculty, researchers and students with HiPerGator to drive breakthroughs and innovation.”
Out of UF’s $1.33 billion annual budget for research, about 60% is dedicated toward projects that are reliant on the HiPerGator.
The upgraded HiPerGator system’s program also comes as UF added 100 new AI faculty and 230 AI and data science courses to the curriculum. In the past year alone, the system has supported some 7,000 users from across the Southeast U.S.
