NVIDIA has announced commitments valued at $1 billion to expand US research computing over the next five years, in fields it names as quantum computing, healthcare and energy security. The company made the announcement on 8 October at an event in Washington, D.C. that brought together government officials, industry leaders and scientists.
According to NVIDIA, the money will go to three areas: computing support for the country's higher-education research institutions, investment in quantum computing, and support for cloud providers that serve US government work. The company has not published how the total will be divided between them.
The event marked an expansion of the Genesis Mission, the federal programme to speed up scientific discovery with AI, in which NVIDIA is an industry partner. NVIDIA is also a collaborator on several projects in the programme's second round of awards, in quantum computing, fusion, accelerator design and microelectronics. The plan builds on two decades of work with US national laboratories, including the scientific supercomputer the company is helping the Department of Energy build at Argonne National Laboratory.
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