Mexico plans to build Latin America's most powerful supercomputer

Mexico has announced plans to physique Latin America's astir almighty supercomputer, named "Coatlicue."

MEXICO CITY -- MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico laid retired plans Wednesday to physique Latin America’s astir almighty supercomputer, a task that the authorities says volition assistance the state capitalize connected the rapidly evolving uses of artificial quality and exponentially grow the country’s computing capacity.

Dubbed “Coatlicue” for the Mexica goddess considered the world mother, the supercomputer would beryllium 7 times much almighty than the region’s existent person successful Brazil, José Merino, caput of the Telecommunications and Digital Transformation Agency.

President Claudia Sheinbaum said during her greeting quality briefing that the determination for the task had not been decided yet, but operation volition statesman adjacent year.

“We’re precise excited,” said Sheinbaum, an world and clime scientist. “It is going to let Mexico to afloat get successful connected the usage of artificial quality and the processing of information that contiguous we don’t person the capableness to do."

Merino said that Mexico’s astir almighty supercomputer operates astatine 2.3 petaflops — a portion to measurement computing speed, meaning it tin execute 1 quadrillion operations per second. Coatlicue would person a capableness of 314 petaflops.

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