Road to Zettascale: Intel and RIKEN Announce Strategic Partnership
Intel and RIKEN earlier this week announced they'd reached a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on finding a shared path towards Zettascale computing. Through it, the companies have agreed to collaborate in a joint effort towards Zettascale, which will leverage both Intel and RIKEN's research expertise and the former's manufacturing know-how. RIKEN's access to Intel's Foundry Services (IFS), its manufacturing division responsible for catering to designs from external clients, is one of the key aspects of the MOU.
RIKEN and @Intel sign a MOU on collaboration to accelerate joint research in next-generation computing fields such as #AI, #HPC, and #QuantumComputing @ProfMatsuoka: MOU on research; No commitment on FugakuNEXT https://t.co/hZhjzZrGAmvia @HPCwire @riken_en pic.twitter.com/DlvDhsWF38May 19, 2023
The next hilltop on mankind's computing power climb, Zettascale (10 to the 21st power, 1,000 times that of Exascale) is being primed for high-impact technologies. AI and the ChatGPTs of this world, some of which we love more than others, are part of it. But so is High Performance Computing (HPC), the envelope responsible for the world's fastest, classical supercomputers such as Summit; and the fabled quantum computing, an in-execution dream of unlocking extraordinary, subatomic-level computing power.
