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NVIDIA-Powered Supercomputer Set to Revolutionize Research in Taiwan
NCHC announces plans to deploy a new supercomputer powered by NVIDIA, expected to deliver 8x more AI performance than its earlier system.The new system features multiple NVIDIA HGX and NVL72 systems, providing unparalleled access to computing power and memory.The supercomputer will support breakthroughs in sovereign AI, quantum computing, and advanced scientific computation.NCHC plans to deploy a set of NVIDIA DGX Spark personal AI supercomputers and a cluster of NVIDIA HGX systems in the cloud for researchers from around the world.The new system has significant implications for developing sovereign AI applications in Taiwan, including the creation of large language models like TAIDE.TAIDE model has been used to power conversational AI robots, educational materials, and AI chatbots in healthcare and climate research.The supercomputer will support researchers using NVIDIA Earth-2 platform for advanced atmospheric science and fourcast.net for global weather forecasting.NCHC researchers have developed tools like Quantum Molecular Generator and cuTN-QSVM to accelerate quantum computing and tackle complex problems.
The National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) in Taiwan has recently announced its plans to deploy a new supercomputer that will be powered by NVIDIA, marking a significant milestone in the country's pursuit of technological advancement. The new system, which is expected to go live later this year, promises to deliver over 8x more AI performance than the center's earlier Taiwania 2 system.
The new supercomputer at NCHC will feature NVIDIA HGX H200 systems with over 1,700 GPUs, two NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 rack-scale systems and an NVIDIA HGX B300 system built on the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra platform. These interconnected by NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand networking, providing researchers with unparalleled access to computing power and memory.
NCHC's director general, Chau-Lyan Chang, has stated that the new supercomputer will "drive breakthroughs in sovereign AI, quantum computing and advanced scientific computation." This is a testament to the significant advancements being made by Taiwanese researchers in these fields. The supercomputer will support a wide range of applications, including climate science, quantum research, and large language models.
One of the most exciting developments at NCHC is the deployment of a set of NVIDIA DGX Spark personal AI supercomputers and a cluster of NVIDIA HGX systems in the cloud. This will enable researchers from academic institutions, government agencies, and small businesses to access cutting-edge computing resources and accelerate their innovative projects.
The new supercomputer also has significant implications for the development of sovereign AI applications in Taiwan. NCHC's Trustworthy AI Dialogue Engine (TAIDE) initiative aims to create large language models that reflect local cultural and linguistic nuances, with a focus on supporting the rapid development of AI products by startups, researchers, and enterprises.
The TAIDE model has already been used to power a conversational AI robot that speaks Taiwanese and English, and has been used by over 2,000 students, teachers, and parents. Another professor at National Tainan University is using the model to generate high-quality educational materials, shortening lesson preparation time for teachers.
In healthcare, research teams in Taiwan have used the TAIDE model to develop an AI chatbot with retrieval-augmented generation that helps case managers deliver timely, accurate medical information to patients with major injuries and illnesses. The Epidemic Prevention Center at Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control is also training the model to generate news summaries to support the tracking and prevention of how diseases spread.
In climate research, NCHC supports researchers using the NVIDIA Earth-2 platform to advance atmospheric science. These researchers are tapping Earth-2's CorrDiff AI model to sharpen the precision of coarse-resolution weather models, and DeepMind's GraphCast model in NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo for global weather forecasting.
They're also adopting the NVIDIA NIM microservice for FourCastNet, an NVIDIA model that predicts global atmospheric dynamics of weather and climate variables. With the new supercomputer, researchers will be able to run more complex simulations and accelerate the pace of AI training and inference.
The advancement of quantum computing is another significant area where the new supercomputer at NCHC will make a substantial impact. Researchers are using NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform and NVIDIA cuQuantum library targeting applications in quantum machine learning, chemistry, finance, cryptography, and more.
NCHC researchers have developed Quantum Molecular Generator, a tool that generates valid chemical molecules, using quantum circuits and the CUDA-Q platform. It's also created cuTN-QSVM, an open-source tool built on the cuQuantum library that accelerates large-scale quantum circuit simulations.
The tool enables researchers to tackle more complex problems, offering linear scalability and supporting hybrid quantum computing systems to help accelerate the development of large-scale quantum algorithms.
In recent days, NCHC researchers have used cuTN-QSVM to perform a record-breaking 784-qubit simulation for a quantum machine learning algorithm. The institute also plans to build a hybrid quantum-accelerated computing system by integrating NVIDIA DGX Quantum systems.
The new supercomputer at NCHC is expected to be a game-changer for Taiwanese researchers, providing them with unparalleled access to computing power and memory. With the support of NVIDIA, they will be able to tackle some of the most complex challenges in AI development, climate science, and quantum computing, driving breakthroughs that will have far-reaching impacts on our world.
Related Information:
https://www.digitaleventhorizon.com/articles/NVIDIA-Powered-Supercomputer-Set-to-Revolutionize-Research-in-Taiwan-deh.shtml
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/taiwan-research-supercomputer/
Published: Mon May 19 01:15:38 2025 by llama3.2 3B Q4_K_M
