With the aim of developing and applying artificial intelligence technology in the public administration research within the academic community and its institutions, and the entire industry of the Republic of Serbia, as well as supporting startup companies in developing their products, the Government of the Republic of Serbia has provided the National Artificial Intelligence Platform (AI Platform). The development of the National Platform is defined by the goals and measures of the Strategies for the Development of Artificial Intelligence in the Republic of Serbia for the periods 2020–2025 and 2025–2030. In 2023, the OECD awarded the National AI Platform as one of the nine most innovative public sector projects, among 1,048 projects from 94 countries worldwide.
The AI Platform, aka supercomputer, is located in the State Data Center in Kragujevac, which meets the highest reliability standard (Tier 4). The Office for Information Technologies and eGovernment manages both the State Data Center and the supercomputer.
EXISTING SUPERCOMPUTER
In December 2021, the existing supercomputer was acquired, valued at 2 million euros, with Nvidia as the vendor and Eviden (Atos) as the supplier.
Specifications:
- 4 × NVIDIA DGX A100 systems
- 1024 CPU threads (AMD)
- 32 A100 GPUs, 40 GB RAM per GPU
- DDN storage with 150 TB capacity
- Data science software
- HDR (InfiniBand), 200 Gb/s
- 5 PetaFLOPS of AI performance
- Power consumption: 34.5 kW
PHASE 1
By the end of 2025, the first upgrade will be integrated and up and running, valued at 5 million euros. The entire infrastructure, as well as the necessary management and orchestration software, will be provided by Nvidia and Eviden (Atos).
Specifications:
- 6 × NVIDIA DGX H200 systems
- 1344 CPU threads (Intel)
- 48 H200 GPUs, 141 GB RAM per GPU
- DDN storage with 120 TB capacity
- NDR (InfiniBand) networking, 400 Gb/s
- 32 PetaFLOPS of AI performance
- Power consumption: 72 kW
PHASE 2
By the end of 2026, the second upgrade will be installed and ready for use, valued at 36 million euros. In this phase, the supplier will be Eviden (Atos), with Nvidia and Eviden as vendors.
Specifications:
- HPC + Software stack + Mistral AI
- 4 × BullSequana XH3000 racks
- 640 × NVIDIA GraceHopper Superchips
- 96 GB RAM per GPU
- Jarvice AI
- Inference capabilities
- DDN storage with 2.5 PB capacity
- NDR (InfiniBand), 400 Gb/s
- 5 PetaFLOPS of AI performance
- Power consumption: 550 kW
The National Artificial Intelligence Platform provides users with an easier and faster way to solve AI tasks, the ability to tackle large and more complex problems, and to create better and more sophisticated models with unparalleled performance that enables more iterations. As such, it represents a significant resource that supports the empowerment of the entire AI ecosystem in the Republic of Serbia.