ALAFIA Unveils AIVAS Interactive Supercomputer, an All-in-One Interactive High-Performance Personal Supercomputer for Artificial Intelligence Software Applications in Healthcare

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ALAFIA Unveils AIVAS Interactive Supercomputer, an All-in-One Interactive High-Performance Personal Supercomputer for Artificial Intelligence Software Applications in Healthcare

2024-08-18 06:27 Last Updated At：06:31

GAINESVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 17, 2024--

Alafia Ai, Inc. (“ALAFIA”), announces the general availability of AIVAS, an all-in-one interactive high-performance personal supercomputer designed to revolutionize the development and deployment of critical artificial intelligence (AI) software applications in healthcare. AIVAS accelerates in-silico experiments and bioinformatics pipeline development by multiple orders magnitude as compared to existing systems. With AIVAS, ALAFIA aims to equip bioinformaticians and healthcare professionals with powerful tools to gain pivotal insights across various medical applications ranging from genetics research, to clinical decision support systems.

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A New Era in AI-Powered Healthcare with AIVAS Personal Supercomputers

The increasing complexity of applications in fields like digital pathology, neurology, genetics research, radiation oncology, and cardiac imaging demand robust computational power and efficiency. AIVAS addresses market demand by offering the highest compute density and energy efficiency for low-latency, mission-critical workflows and secured workloads. AIVAS enables next-generation high-throughput sequencing algorithms, computational mass spectrometry, and bioinformatics automation by providing the ability to use advance bioinformatics techniques in clinical environments. This provides a unique opportunity for more accurate insights and faster results when most critically needed. AIVAS enables real-time data visualization and processing of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans for use cases ranging from cortical reconstructions to image reconstruction of positron emission tomography (PET) scans.

Meet the World’s Most Powerful All-in-One

Enthusiasm for AIVAS is uniquely pronounced in the bioinformatics software engineering community. With maximum compute, unified memory, storage, high-bandwidth network throughput, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Data Center grade AI accelerators, new use cases and applications are being created at an accelerated pace.

Key Features of AIVAS

Real-World Impact

AIVAS has been met with enthusiasm and validation from early adopters, including researchers from the Stanford Medical School Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences and the Acacia Clinics.

Dr. Danielle D. DeSouza, Vice-President of Research at Acacia Clinics and Research Staff at Stanford University, Department of Neurology, shared her experience, saying, “Performing cortical reconstruction with AIVAS was significantly faster than traditional computers. We reduced individual subject reconstructions from over 24 hours to under 2 hours per subject and could parallelize to perform hundreds of subjects at a time. Clinical trial cohort pre-processing that used to take weeks to months was completed in under a week.”

Transforming Healthcare with AI

AIVAS enables surgeons and medical physicists to conduct real-time reconstructions using industry-standard DICOM images and videos, including CT and MRI scans. Leveraging the parallel processing power of both CPU and GPU with a unified memory architecture, AIVAS handles large datasets efficiently and significantly boosts medical reconstruction performance.

For more information about AIVAS or to place an order, please visit www.alafia.ai.

About Alafia Ai, Inc. (“ALAFIA”)

Alafia Ai, Inc. provides a high-performance precision medicine platform designed to accelerate scientific and medical discoveries across hospitals, cancer and imaging centers, research institutions, pharmaceutical organizations, and biotechnology companies. Rooted in the belief that personalized care is fundamental to healthcare excellence, ALAFIA’s vision is to create an intelligent and adaptable healthcare ecosystem ensuring that every patient receives the highest standard of care.

Battered by war and economic crisis, Lebanon holds first local elections in almost 10 years

2025-05-04 20:21 Last Updated At：20:31

HARET HREIK, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanese voted Sunday in the country's first local elections in almost a decade, months after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire ended a war between Israel and Hezbollah.

The first round of voting, which is taking place by region, was in the Mount Lebanon districts including Beirut's battered southern suburbs, where Hezbollah headquarters are located and much of their leadership including veteran leader Hassan Nasrallah were killed in Israeli airstrikes during the 14-month war.

The polls for mayors and municipal councils, though not as significant as Lebanon’s parliamentary election set for 2026, are a barometer of how much the devastating war that left over 4,000 people dead and entire neighborhoods destroyed has impacted support for politicians and parties, especially in the south where Hezbollah and allies are strong.

Hezbollah and fellow Shitte party the Amal Movement are expected to win most votes for municipal councils and mayors in Beirut's southern suburbs.

Flags of the parties and members wearing green and yellow paraphernalia were present outside the polling stations, assisting supporters wanting to cast their vote for the parties' candidates.

The voting also took place in public schools near the wreckage of buildings destroyed in Israeli airstrikes. Lebanon's cash-strapped government has been scrambling to secure international funds for the reconstruction, which the World Bank estimates at over $11 billion.

Municipal elections were supposed to have taken place years ago but the government had postponed them three times, including once over budgetary constraints.

Voters said they were especially concerned with rebuilding their homes and livelihoods.

Mohammad Awali, a candidate running for the Haret Hreik municipality, said his local council “has a great responsibility, especially given the extensive destruction that occurred in our area.”