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New Danish supercomputer changes strategic scope and boosts new medicines and green transition

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The Gefion supercomputer is inaugurated by Jensen Huang from NVIDIA, Nadia Carlsten from the Danish Center for AI Innovation and King Frederik.

A new Danish supercomputer is changing strategic perspectives and will boost the development of new medicines and the green transition. With enormous computational power, the new supercomputer is expected to create both economic and technological disruption that will radically change markets and industries.

Denmark has recently taken a quantum leap in the world of technology with the inauguration of the Gefion supercomputer - a collaboration between the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the Danish Export and Investment Fund (EIFO), and the American chip giant Nvidia.

The supercomputer is more than just a technological breakthrough; it is an AI powerhouse expected to make a quantum leap in medical research, green transition, and innovation.

Equipped with no fewer than 1,528 of Nvidia's advanced H100 chips, Gefion offers Danish research a level of computing power previously only available to the world's leading research environments.

It provides a unique opportunity to accelerate drug development, where development cycles of over ten years and billion-dollar budgets can be dramatically reduced with quantum computing and advanced AI.

By simulating complex molecular interactions, Gefion can help researchers identify potential drug candidates faster and more accurately.

But Gefion's capabilities extend far beyond the healthcare sector. The supercomputer can improve climate models, providing more accurate predictions of climate change and its impact on energy systems. Quantum computing's ability to solve complex optimization problems can play a crucial role in the transition to a greener economy, especially in optimizing resource allocation and planning energy investments.

Gefion's potential requires Danish businesses to be ready to utilize this new technology. If Danish companies are to take full advantage of the supercomputer, it requires a significant strengthening of their adaptability and innovative capabilities. With Gefion's AI power, they can speed up complex problem-solving while gaining access to strategic data.

However, the key question is whether companies and organizations will be able to execute on an informed basis. Big tech will set the agenda for how our businesses, organizations, and societies handle strategic decisions as digital strategies and data-driven decisions become the new norm.

The question is how decision-makers will deal with the increased competition and technological opportunities that follow in the wake of this new supercomputer. The future requires strategies adapted to a rapidly changing worldview, and this is where Gefion can play a pivotal role for researchers and businesses alike.

Companies and organizations will naturally become dependent on digital platforms that can deliver a strategic snapshot that, in addition to efficient and transparent execution, ensures accurate and immediate monitoring of the status and progress of concurrent strategic initiatives.

With Gefion, Denmark is ready to explore the future frontier where technology and science go hand in hand to solve some of the biggest challenges we face. Gefion is not just a supercomputer; it is a stepping stone towards a smarter and more sustainable future.

 

About the Gefion supercomputer:

  •  A groundbreaking public-private partnership.
  •  Gefion is the result of a public-private partnership between the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the Danish Export and Investment Fund (EIFO) and in collaboration with US chip manufacturer Nvidia.
  • The Novo Nordisk Foundation has set aside around DKK 600 million for the center's start-up costs, while EIFO has contributed DKK 100 million and owns a minority stake of 15 percent of the company.
  • Gefion is an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD AI supercomputer powered by 1,528 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU and connected using an NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand network.
  •  The supercomputer and the collaboration with NVIDIA will help enable Denmark to carry out large-scale projects in a wide range of areas where artificial intelligence plays a key role, as well as in artificial intelligence (AI) research.
  •  Read more about Gefion and the Danish Center for AI Innovation's (DCAI) website: www.dcai.dk

 

 

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Flemming Videriksen

One of the world's leading experts in Strategy Execution Management and CEO & co-founder of DecideAct, a groundbreaking SaaS solution that moves old-school manual strategy execution to a modern digital platform. Working with strategy design, implementation, and cultural change for nearly three decades in organizations worldwide, Flemming has been a trusted strategic advisor and executive coach for top global business and organization leaders. Flemming is committed to modernizing strategic leadership with the help of technology. With this professional emphasis, he has spent the past ten years mapping how to create the optimal infrastructure for successful strategy implementation, and he is the author and co-author of several excellent books and publications on the subject.

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