With the rise of massive datasets, researchers need centralized computing and AI data centers to keep up with the processing, modeling, and training tasks. By deploying AI across its curriculum, UF aims to address major challenges such as rising seas, aging populations, data security, personalized medicine, urban transportation and food insecurity.
This "initiative" will create a smart data center housing the world’s fastest AI supercomputer in higher education. Working closely with NVIDIA’s technical expertise, UF will boost the capabilities of its existing supercomputer, HiPerGator, with the recently announced NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD architecture.
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What does 'initiative' mean in the sentence above?
From Merriam-Webster dictionary:
a plan or program that is intended to solve a problem
"The governor has proposed a new initiative to improve conditions in urban schools."