This will be the first national AI collaboration with NVIDIA in Europe, and according to a press release it is “a milestone towards working together to solving society’s most important challenges” through the use of AI and high-performance computers.
We first reported on the initial ‘memorandum of understanding’ which was signed on 5 July 2018.
The initiative is enabled by the government’s “Digital Luxembourg” initiative, and draws together several active partners. According to the press release:
“NVIDIA, the University of Luxembourg’s High-Performance Computing Team, its Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), its Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) have initially committed to dedicate a team of six people to work on joint projects. The AI lab will work in close connection with the global AI research approach of NVIDIA and be supported by a joint advisory board. Each institution will gain better access to cutting-edge NVIDIA hardware and software, for use in tackling their most difficult research problems.”
The aim is to make the new AI laboratory an integral part of Luxembourg’s innovation and research ecosystem.
“In the post-Moore’s law era, NVIDIA’s technology has become an indispensable tool for scientists and researchers seeking to accelerate and deploy the power of AI and high performance computing,” said Jaap Zuiderveld, NVIDIA Vice President of Sales and Marketing EMEAI. “This agreement brings together NVIDIA hardware, software, and expertise to support Luxembourg’s research community as they tackle some of the world’s most challenging problems.”
The collaboration, says University of Luxembourg rector Stéphane Pallage, will give their researchers access to cutting-edge equipment and enable them to “tap into NVIDIA’s experience in addressing real-world problems using artificial intelligence.”
There are also plans for the AI laboratory to open up to Luxembourg’s industry partners and startup community, as there is a growing demand for AI technologies in the Grand Duchy.
See the full press release (below) for further details.
