NVIDIA has announced that it is building a supercomputer, Cambridge-1, to support healthcare researchers adopt artificial intelligence.
King’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust have been announced as founding partners of NVIDIA’s Cambridge-1.
The company is leading the London Medical Imaging & AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare programme, and aims to build the supercomputer to support researchers develop algorithms and AI solutions. King’s AI Centre is using technologies from NVIDIA as part of their federated learning, data interoperability and AI deployment platforms.
Professor Sebastien Ourselin, AI Centre Deputy Director and Head of School at King’s School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, said: “Recent advances in AI have seen increasingly powerful models being used for complex tasks such as image recognition and natural language understanding. These models have achieved previously unimaginable performance by using an unprecedented scale of computational power, amassing millions of GPU hours per model.”
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said: “The Cambridge-1 supercomputer will serve as a hub of innovation for the UK, enabling the nation’s outstanding researchers to do work that can affect the lives of millions.”
Dr Jorge Cardoso, AI Centre CTO said: “The vision of value-based healthcare, which focuses on patient outcomes, requires a holistic view of different clinical pathways, wide access to data and evidence, and advanced AI algorithms that enable the personalisation of care.”
“If we are to deliver on this vision, the robustness, resilience, safety and fairness of AI systems are of utmost importance.”
Cambridge-1 is aimed to support academia and research, tech start-ups and pharmaceutical companies in projects.
