Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that it built a new AI supercomputer, called “Austral”, based on HPE Cray supercomputers and the HPE Machine Learning Development Environment, for CRIANN (Centre Régional Informatique et d’Applications Numériques de Normandie), a high-performance computing (HPC) and AI data center located in Normandy, France. Austral was inaugurated on October 12th at a dedicated event in CRIANN.
The new AI supercomputer is part of ongoing efforts to advance France’s national AI strategy and was co-funded by the Normandy Region, the French State, and the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Austral will help train robust AI models and run simulations and data analysis to accelerate scientific discovery and innovation in climate modeling, biotechnology, healthcare, and materials science, among other areas.
