Mexico City, Mexico — President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced that Mexico will have the largest supercomputer in Latin America. On Wednesday, she said that the government is working on having a Mexican Supercomputing Centre for the development of the country.
She made the announcement during the signing of the agreement with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) Wednesday morning.
“It is very important that Mexico has a public center, a public supercomputer at the service of the people for the development of the country and scientific research.”
Sheinbaum said it is part of the Mexico Plan and contributes to building scientific sovereignty and technological development in the context of the country’s integration into the world.
“Today with artificial intelligence and the development of data linked to science and technology, we could not think about greater sovereignty if we do not have a supercomputer or greater data storage.
“The State has a very important role, in particular, in ensuring that we do not depend on others for the development of Mexican capabilities. That will put Mexico in a different position. We are very excited about this project,” she said.
Rosaura Ruiz Gutiérrez, the Secretary of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation, reported that with this agreement, actions begin to finalize the Mexican Supercomputing Center.
She says it will start with the development of meteorological models for disaster prevention, customs information, risk models, image processing for agriculture and language models in artificial intelligence.
It also includes training of specialized human resources, technology transfer, shared access to infrastructure, innovation and development of research capabilities in high-performance computing.
Mexico’s Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, highlighted that the Mexico Plan links innovation and financing with public and private companies to solve problems and generate wealth.
He said it is one of the instruments of the industrial policy to expand the country’s capabilities and increase job creation.
The Director of the Barcelona Computer Center research center, Mateo Valero Cortés, explained that a computer center allows science to be done using supercomputers, which are the fastest in the world in this field, in order to solve societal problems.
The Director General of the Agency for Digital Transformation and Telecommunications (ATDT), José Antonio Peña Merino, explained that the Mexican Supercomputing Center will allow problems to be solved in reduced times.
He said the agreement will allow them to begin addressing priorities such as weather forecasting.
“Mexican researchers will have complete sovereignty in terms of data management and can begin using their capacity to solve pressing public problems.
“The possibilities of using these supercomputers with artificial intelligence are enormous for a country.”
