In this case, the system would be the Sunway OceaLine, composed of 96 thousand nodes powered by the Sunway SW39010 hybrid processors. to 390 cores, with a total number of cores approaching 40 million (37 million to be exact).
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Turning to the hardware used, there would be controversies about the actual performance of the supercomputer used, which oscillate between 5.3 and 4.4 ExaFLOPS, but in any case the computing capacity and the work needed to creating a training model of artificial intelligence with such a number of processes remains something impressive, so much so that researchers have gone so far as to affirm that the new model of AI could rival our brain.
Tra applications suggested by the group, there would be self-driving vehicles, automatic vision, facial recognition, complex calculations in the field of chemistry and much more. Among the real use cases of artificial intelligence systems of this type, we recall that Tianhe, another Chinese supercomputer from the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, enabled rapid monitoring and the discovery of new pharmaceutical products during the initial peak of the pandemic. Covid-19, consequently, a model of this magnitude could be used again in the medical field with results yet to be imagined.