The federal government will sequentially distribute graphics processing items (GPUs) it has secured to non-public firms and academia.
The Ministry of Science and ICT introduced that it’s going to launch a contest for trade, academia, and analysis institute tasks via a web based platform from Dec. 22 till Jan. 28 subsequent yr to help AI analysis and growth and progressive service creation, focusing on 2,296 H200 items and a pair of,040 B200 items.
Presently, the federal government is securing roughly 13,000 GPUs via the primary supplementary price range of 1.460 trillion received this yr and is sequentially establishing them in information facilities of personal cloud service suppliers together with Naver Cloud, Kakao, and NHN Cloud. The federal government plans to make the most of 10,000 of those GPUs in cloud service format.
Amongst these, 2,296 H200 items and a pair of,040 B200 items can be allotted with precedence to pressing AI innovation calls for from trade, academia, and analysis institutes, deciding on tasks aimed toward creating progressive AI providers and fashions in nationwide key trade innovation and future promising industries. Every venture can be supported with H200 servers starting from 2 items (16 GPUs) to a most of 32 items (256 GPUs), and B200 servers starting from 2 items (16 GPUs) to a most of 16 items (128 GPUs) for as much as 12 months. Nonetheless, some portions could also be allotted with precedence to nationwide tasks.
Every venture can be chosen via knowledgeable analysis primarily based on standards together with technical and social ripple results, contribution to the AI ecosystem, consumer capabilities and readiness, and feasibility, with preferential therapy (bonus factors) given to regionally-located firms. Moreover, large-scale tasks (H200 64 items or extra (8 servers), B200 32 items or extra (4 servers)) will bear extra eligibility interviews. Moreover, throughout utilization, academia and analysis institutes will obtain free entry, whereas trade (small and medium enterprises and startups) will bear roughly 5-10% of market worth as self-burden. Youth enterprises will obtain an extra 50% low cost. The Ministry of Science and ICT additionally plans to carry an on-site briefing session subsequent month on the ninth to elucidate the progress of the federal government GPU procurement venture and competitors particulars.
