MEXICO CITY — MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico on Wednesday unveiled plans to build what it claims will be Latin America's most powerful supercomputer, a project that the government says will help the country benefit from the booming use of computer technology. artificial intelligence and exponentially expand the country's computing power.
The supercomputer, named Coatlicue after the Mexican goddess considered Mother Earth, will be seven times more powerful than Brazil's current regional leader, Jose Merino, head of the Agency for Telecommunications and Digital Transformation.
President Claudia Sheinbaum said during a morning briefing that a location for the project has not yet been determined, but construction will begin next year.
“We’re very excited,” Sheinbaum said. academician and climate scientist. “This will allow Mexico to fully utilize artificial intelligence and data processing that we do not have the capacity to do today.”
Merino said Mexico's most powerful supercomputer runs at 2.3 petaflops, a unit of calculation speed, meaning it can perform one quadrillion operations per second. Coatlicue will have a capacity of 314 petaflops.
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