Korea to deploy new supercomputer from Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Korea will introduce a new supercomputer from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) under a contract that includes five years of maintenance and repair services, the science ministry said Wednesday. The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) signed a 382.5 billion-won ($270 million) deal with HPE to install the supercomputer by the first half of 2026, the Ministry of Science and ICT said in a press release. It will be the country's sixth state supercomputer. "In rapidly changing research and industrial environments, the new supercomputer will offer ultra high-performance computing services to sectors requiring large-scale, high-precision scientific and engineering calculations," the ministry said. Such computing power is also essential for artificial intelligence (AI)-related research projects, it added. The sixth state-designated supercomputer will be equipped with 8,496 graphic processing units (GPUs) produced by U.S. chipmaker Nvidia, delivering a performance capacity of 600 petaflops (PF), according to the ministry. One petaflop (PF) refers to the ability to performWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times