HPE Selected to Build Supercomputer for Maison de l’Intelligence Artificielle

April 13, 2021

PARIS, April 13, 2021 — Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced that it has been chosen to build a compute and machine learning platform for the Maison de l’Intelligence Artificielle (MIA) located in Sophia Antipolis, south of France. This public space, the largest technology park in Europe entirely devoted to Artificial Intelligence and its applications, was created by Charles Ange Ginésy, President of the Alpes-Maritimes region. HPE was selected by the Alpes-Maritimes Departmental Council, the Maison de l’Intelligence Artificielle and Université Côte d’Azur (UCA) to provide an end-to-end infrastructure based on its industry-leading high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, powered by HPE Apollo Systems as well as HPE Nimble Storage capabilities.

In January 2018, Charles Ange Ginésy became aware of the societal and industrial transformation underway and implemented the SMART Deal digital transition plan. The aim of this initiative is to modernize the operations of public administration and improve the quality of life of its inhabitants while responding to the challenges of the territory, in line with the French government’s ambition to make France a leader in AI.

“The Maison de l’Intelligence Artificielle, a unique place in France, allows everyone to discover and experiment with artificial intelligence. All the players in the Côte d’Azur’s AI ecosystem can come together there to co-construct the region’s expertise,” explained Charles Ange Ginésy, President of the Alpes-Maritimes Department and Chairman of the Syndicat Mixte de la MIA. “The computing platform provided by HPE is part of this approach and will be shared with free access. This new-generation, high-performance solution will be made available to start-ups hosted at the MIA, experimental projects for the region, as well as to Université Côte d’Azur students to enable them to carry out various research and innovation projects. The MIA was inaugurated in March 2020: through it, we hope to instill a national, and perhaps European dynamic on artificial intelligence, in order to win our place on the international scene, which is currently dominated by America and Asia.”

To support the MIA mission, HPE designed an end-to-end infrastructure that combines advanced computing and intelligent storage capabilities. This new infrastructure will be implemented by HPE Pointnext Services and built on HPE Apollo 6500 Gen10 Systems specifically designed for high performance computing (HPC) and deep learning capabilities with NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 GPUs. The system will also utilize HPE Nimble Storage, an intelligent, self-managed storage platform to enable MIA users to securely run, process and store large amounts of data and complex models. This technology collaboration with MIA further strengthens HPE’s significant investment in France, supporting innovation with the latest high-performance computing and AI technologies.

The MIA offers 24/7 access to its computing and storage resources to UCA students and startups hosted on site thanks to a partnership with the Paca-Est incubator to process their complex tasks and deep learning models. The MIA is also open to students and the general public to discover AI through various activities, demonstrators and events.

Here are some examples of projects for which students, researchers or engineers will use the resources of the Maison de l’Intelligence Artificielle:

  • Developing the next generation of autonomous-driving cars (AD) – Université Côte d’Azur students will study and develop AD systems by creating algorithms to recognize road signs and analyze traffic conditions to support future autonomous driving solutions.
  • Accelerating resources to fight cancer – as part of the region council’s health-focused call for projects, researchers will focus their efforts to accelerate research on various cancers and treatments.
  • Detecting, recognizing and counting of wolves in the Mercantour Park, filmed by all forty cameras installed by the park rangers. Data from the animals will be merged with a whole series of information (e.g. prints, genetic analyses to carry out very broad modeling of the activity of the species with the future possibility of tracing individual wolves. The work could then be duplicated on other species in the Park in order to study their biodiversity).

About the Maison de l’Intelligence Artificielle, a unique space in France undertaken by the Alpes-Maritimes Department as part of its SMART Deal policy

The Maison de l’Intelligence Artificielle (MIA) is a public space entirely dedicated to artificial intelligence and its applications. Inaugurated in March 2020, it aims to acculturate and raise awareness of AI and its societal challenges among the public and young people, and to offer an emblematic place for the Côte d’Azur AI ecosystem, with the ambition of inspiring a national dynamic in favor of AI for the benefit of society.

The MIA project was initiated by the Alpes-Maritimes Departmental Council as part of its SMART Deal digital transition policy, in partnership with the Sophia Antipolis Agglomeration Community (CASA), Université Côte d’Azur (UCA) and the Nice Côte d’Azur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI Nice Côte d’Azur). The Syndicat Mixte de la Maison de l’Intelligence Artificielle (S2MIA), which brings together these four entities, is the body that ensures the implementation, management, development and promotion of the MIA.

About Université Côte d’Azur

Université Côte d’Azur is a so-called experimental university that since January 1, 2020 has replaced the Université Nice Sophia Antipolis and the Communauté d’Universités et Etablissements (ComUE) Université Côte d’Azur. The decree establishing the new university was published in the Journal Officiel on July 26, 2019. Winner of a 2016 Excellence Initiative, Université Côte d’Azur is one of France’s leading research universities.

Structured into internal components with increased responsibilities, with all of its missions based on the excellence of its research, strongly anchored in its territory, and associated with the major national research players, the Université Côte d’Azur intends to shine on the international scene.

About Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a global edge-to-cloud platform as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent technology solutions, with a consistent experience across all clouds and edges, to help customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more information, visit: www.hpe.com.


Source: HPE

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