Engineering:Taiwania (supercomputer)

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Short description: Supercomputer of Taiwan
Taiwania
台灣杉
Taiwania 3 Supercomputer.jpg
Taiwania 3
Introduced9 May 2018
Costat least NT$430 million
Typesupercomputer
Memorydepends on system
ConnectionNVIDIA Mellanox Interconnection
SpeedTaiwania 1:1.33 quadrillion FLOPS Taiwania 2:9 quadrillion FLOPS Taiwania 3:2.7 quadrillion FLOPS

Taiwania (traditional Chinese: 台灣杉; simplified Chinese: 台湾杉; pinyin: Táiwān Shān) is a supercomputer series in Taiwan owned by the National Applied Research Laboratories.[1]

History

The supercomputer was activated on 9 May 2018 after a two-year program to establish it with a cost of NT$430 million.[1]

In April of 2023, it was unveiled that Taiwania 1 itself will be retired and replaced by Taiwania 4.

Technical specifications

The Taiwania 1 Supercomputer has a memory of 3.4 petabytes with a maximum speed of 1.33 quadrillion FLOPS.[1] The hardware takes up a total area of 33 m2.[2] Taiwania 2 has a maximum speed of 9 PFLOPS. Taiwania series at a glance.

Taiwania 2

Taiwania 2

History

The Taiwania 2 supercomputer is a follow on to the Taiwania supercomputer designed by the National Center for High-Performance Computing.[3] Taiwania 2 debuted at 20 on the November 2018 TOP500 and 10 on the Green500.[4]

Technical specifications

Taiwania 2 has a computing capacity of 9 quadrillion floating-point operations per second (9 PetaFLOPS, or 9 PFLOPS). Its hardware consists of 252 nodes, each of which contains two Intel Xeon Gold CPUs and eight NVIDIA V100 GPUs.[4] It runs the CentOS operating system.[5]

Taiwania 3

Main page: Engineering:Taiwania 3

Taiwania 3 is one of the supercomputers made by Taiwan,.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][excessive citations] and also the newest one (August, 2021). It is placed in the National Center for High-performance Computing[16] of NARLabs. There are 50,400 cores in total with 900 nodes,[17][15] using Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4 GHz CPU (28 Cores/CPU)[15][18] and using CentOS as Operating System.[19] It is an open access for public supercomputer.[20][21] It is currently open access to scientists and more to do specific research after get permission from Taiwan's National Center for High-performance Computing.[17][22][23][15][24] This is the third supercomputer of the Taiwania series. It uses CentOS x86_64 7.8 as its system operator and Slurm Workload Manager as workflow manager to ensure better performance. Taiwania 3 uses InfiniBand HDR100 100Gbit/s high speed Internet connection to ensure better performance of the supercomputer. The main memory capability is 192GB. There's currently two Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4 GHz CPU (28 Cores/CPU) inside each node. The full calculation capability is 2.7PFLOPS.[25] It is launched into operation in November 2020 before schedule due to the needed for COVID-19.[10][23][26] It is currently ranked number 227 on Top 500 list of June, 2021[19] and number 80 on Green 500 list.[27] It is manufactured by Quanta Computer, Taiwan Fixed Network, and ASUS Cloud.[19][22][28][29][30]

References

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  8. "Taiwania 3 Supercomputer Powered by QCT Paves the Future of AI | QCT". https://blog.qct.io/taiwania-3-supercomputer-powered-by-qct-paves-the-future-of-ai/. 
  9. Tu, Melody (May 31, 2019). "TAIWANIA 2 Supercomputer, Powered by NVIDIA, Comes Online | NVIDIA Blog". https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/05/31/taiwania-2/. 
  10. 10.0 10.1 "MOST Launches New Supercomputer to Help in Battle Against Coronavirus". https://www.icrt.com.tw/info_details.php?&mlevel1=6&mlevel2=12&news_id=202993&reUrlAddr=. 
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  13. "COVID-19: Supercomputer to support research on the pandemic - Taipei Times". June 10, 2021. https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2021/06/10/2003758929. 
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  20. "「科技抗疫2.0」邀請各界一起加入抗疫行列 台灣杉三號啟用以支援抗疫專案". June 8, 2021. https://www.narlabs.org.tw/xmdoc/cont?xsmsid=0I148622737263495777&sid=0L159531135119445188. 
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  22. 22.0 22.1 ""Anti-Pandemic Technology 2.0" Calls on Efforts from All Disciplines. Taiwania 3 Joins in Combatting the Outbreak". June 8, 2021. https://www.narlabs.org.tw/en/xmdoc/cont?sid=0L174382384160898646&xsmsid=0I160457997407279810. 
  23. 23.0 23.1 "「科技抗疫2.0」邀請各界一起加入抗疫行列 台灣杉三號啟用以支援抗疫專案-國家高速網路與計算中心". https://www.nchc.org.tw/Message/MessageView/3764?mid=46&page=1. 
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