Language and Voice Lab

The complexity of neural network models increases every year and it takes a lot to keep up with computational hardware fast enough to train them efficiently.  Earlier this year, we applied to the RANNIS Infrastructure Fund for funding to expand our current HPC cluster.  We are happy that our proposal “Deep Learning Infrastructure for Speech and Language Technology” was selected to be funded. Only three grants were granted to Reykjavik University, and ours was one of them. This money will allow us to buy a fully equipped SuperMicro 4028GR-TR2 server with NVIDIA 1080Ti GPUs. We hope to sign the grant contract within several weeks and then order the machine. Next comes the process of assembling and integrating it into our current cluster. I can say that several group members can’t wait to have more power available to them.