University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science today announced a major research and development (R&D) lab with AMD, a global leader in high-performance computing. The AMD – U of T Research Lab will focus on developing cutting-edge technologies and strengthening Canada as a global hub for innovation excellence.
With this announcement, the University of Toronto joins AMD's global network of applied R&D partnerships with leading AI and computing research institutions including MIT, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, ETH Zurich and National University of Singapore.
Over the next three years, AMD plans to launch 100 R&D projects at the newly created AMD – U of T Research Lab, focusing on innovations critical to next-generation AI and high-performance computing such as developing energy-efficient AI systems, designing decentralized methods for training massive AI models across distributed clusters and advancing enterprise-scale data intelligence.
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