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AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure (ABCI) is the world's first large-scale Open AI Computing Infrastructure, constructed and operated by National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). ABCI is a platform for accelerating AI R&D and is publicly available for Japanese industries, academia, governments and their collaborators from foreign countries.

For detail about ABCI, please visit ABCI homepage.

AIST Artificial Intelligence Cloud (AAIC) is a cloud-based shared platform to accelerate research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT). The AAIC supports combined use of high performance computing and big data analytics technologies for our research, 1) Computing inspired by brain architecture and Neuro-computing and 2) Data-Knowledge integration. This platform is expected to contribute to technological innovation in AI and its diverse related fields by AI Research Center in AIST and our research partners and companies.

The AAIC system has the latest 400 GPUs, 4 PB storage and high performance and reliable network, as shown in the architecture diagram and specifications below. The system is available for all employees of AIST and people who have signed collaborative research contracts with AIST.

Node type	GPU	Non-GPU
Number of nodes	50	68
CPU	Intel Xeon E5-2630Lv4 (10 cores) x2
Memory	256GB
GPU	NVIDIA P100 x8	N/A
Local SSD	480GB
Shared storage	/home, project space, etc. (4PB, GPFS)
Network	Infiniband EDR

For detail about AAIC, please visit AAIC documents.