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Moroccan University partners Dell, Intel to Inaugurate Africa’s most powerful supercomputer

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February 22, 2021
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London, Feb. 22, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) has officially launched its new datacentre that hosts Africa’s most powerful supercomputer.

Moroccan university #UM6P announced the inauguration of a new #Data Centre, under the name of “African Supercomputing Centre” placing #Morocco at the 26th position #worldwide in terms of #HPC performance. (Twitter@UM6P)

The new entity at UM6P will provide high performance computing (HPC) to boost research on the African continent.

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Launched last Friday in partnership with the University of Cambridge and technology firms Dell and Intel, the ASCC aims to provide resources for vital research in Africa in topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Genomics, Food Security, Agriculture and Mining.

#UM6P announced yesterday the inauguration of a new #Data Center, under the name of "African Supercomputing Center" placing #Morocco at the 26th position #worldwide in terms of #HPC performance.

More info at : https://t.co/JHY8szedWN pic.twitter.com/TwsDZIZkwv

— Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (@UM6P_officiel) February 20, 2021

As Africa’s premier supercomputer, the ASCC has amazing capacities. The supercomputer contains over 69000 CPU cores, over 8000 terabytes of storage, and more than 1300 servers for its networking capabilities.

It has “a clear and well-developed vision to create a world class Supercomputing Centre with the largest HPC system in Africa, acting as a technological beacon, demonstrating global research leadership,” UM6P announced in a press release.

The new supercomputer hopes to “solve African research problems in both academia and industry and create the next generation of computational scientists and digital entrepreneurs.”

Over the past decades high performance computing has become an essential tool for scientists. “Today, to out-compute is to out-compete,” explained the European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing.

The new datacenter at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University is now set to accelerate research at the university and provide a new valuable research tool for scientists in Morocco and across Africa. According to UM6P, the new platform will start “building research momentum and inspiring a generation of African students with HPC technology leadership.”

Besides its contribution to Africa, the supercomputer will also “help guarantee the digital sovereignty of the Kingdom and to develop new 100% Moroccan digital services,” noted UM6P.

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