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Mexico Plans were unveiled Wednesday to build Latin America’s most powerful supercomputer, with the government saying the project will help the country capitalize on its rapidly growing use of artificial intelligence and rapidly expand the country’s computing capacity.
Named “Coatlicue” for the Mexica goddess considered Mother of the Earth, the supercomputer will be seven times more powerful than the current leader in the field. brazilJosé Merino, head of the Telecommunications and Digital Transformation Agency.
chairman claudia sheinbaum said during his morning news briefing that the location for the project has not yet been decided, but construction will begin next year.
“We are very excited,” said Sheinbaum, an academic and climate scientist. “This will allow Mexico to be fully involved in the use of artificial intelligence and the processing of data in a way that we do not have the capacity to do today.”
Mexico’s most powerful supercomputer operates at 2.3 petaflops — a unit for measuring computing speed, meaning it can perform a quadrillion operations per second, Merino said. Coatlicue will have a capacity of 314 petaflops.
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