Taiwan supercomputing power to reach 480 petaflops by 2029
台灣超級運算能力到2029年將達到每秒480 petaflops
| National Science and Technology Council aims to make Taiwan top 3 computing power in Asia by 2028
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s supercomputing power is set to reach 480 petaflops by 2029, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Minister Wu Cheng-wen (吳誠文) said on Tuesday (Oct 1.) In his report to the Legislative Yuan’s Education and Culture Committee, Wu said Taiwan has focused on the hardware manufacturing needed for AI and will now strive to develop AI applications and expand computing power, per CNA. Wu added the public sector’s computing power in Taiwan is about 19 petaflops. One petaflop is equivalent to one quadrillion floating-point operations per second. According to the NSTC's plan, by 2028, Taiwan will have accumulated 280 petaflops of computing resources, to reach 480 petaflops by 2029. The NSTC said it is constructing a new supercomputer, with the first batch of mainframes to be completed this year. The goal is for Taiwan's overall computing power to rank among the top three in Asia and the top 10 globally by 2028, it said. According to the latest rankings published by TOP 500, Taiwan's overall computing power is ranked 17th globally. |
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| Michael Nakhiengchanh, Taiwan News, Staff Writer | |
| 2024-10-02 |
