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Ottawa should invest part of $2-billion AI infrastructure fund in “made-in-Canada” supercomputer, expert says

Mark Lowey
September 25, 2024

Canada needs to close the productivity gap with other countries investing in world-class supercomputers by building a “made-in-Canada” supercomputer, says a Queen’s University researcher and international expert on high-performance computing.

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Organizations:	Amazon, Council of Canadian Innovators, Department of National Defence, Digital Research Alliance of Canada, G7 nations, Google, Government of Canada, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, McGill University, Microsoft, Queen's University, Sandia National Laboratories, Simon Fraser University, Universities Canada,, University of Toronto, University of Victoria, and University of Waterloo
People:	Dr. Ryan Grant, PhD and Nick Schivao
Topics:	A Roadmap for Sovereign, Secure Supercomputing and AI Exascale Infrastructure (Queen's University submission), AI computing infrastructure for domestic scaling firms, benefits of "on-premises" supercomputer, Budget 2024, Canada's Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, Canadian AI developers, cloud computing services, commercialization and adoption of AI innovation, cost of building Canada's own exascale computer, disadvantages of cloud computing services, ensuring control of Canadian data, exascale supercomputers, federal AI Compute Access Fund and Canadian AI Sovereign Computer Strategy, gap in AI exascale computer hardware and software expertise in Canada, Go-Co model for supercomputers, investing in world-class supercomputer in Canada, need for Canada to have a sovereign compute strategy, need for secure and sovereign AI capabilities, new national supercomputing centre in Canada, Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy, protecting Canadian intellectual property, public-private partnership to build Canada's supercomputer, return on investment from supercomputers, supercomputers for military and national disaster planning, technical issues in exascale computers, and using supercomputers to create digital twins

Ottawa should invest part of $2-billion AI infrastructure fund in “made-in-Canada” supercomputer, expert says

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