Taiwania (supercomputer)

Supercomputer of Taiwan

Taiwania
台灣杉

Taiwania 3

Introduced| 9 May 2018
Cost| at least NT$430 million
Type| supercomputer
Memory| depends on system
Connection| NVIDIA Mellanox Interconnection
Speed| Taiwania 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

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

## Technical specifications

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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 2

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Taiwania 2

### History

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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

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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

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Main article: Taiwania 3

Taiwania 3 is one of the supercomputers made by Taiwan.[6][4][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][excessive citations] and also the newest one (August, 2021). It is placed in the National Center for High-performance Computing[15] of NARLabs. There are 50,400 cores in total with 900 nodes,[16][14] using Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4 GHz CPU (28 Cores/CPU)[14][17] and using CentOS as Operating System.[18] It is an open access for public supercomputer.[19][20] 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.[16][21][22][14][23] 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 100 Gbit/s high speed Internet connection to ensure better performance of the supercomputer. The main memory capability is 192 GB. 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.[24] It is launched into operation in November 2020 before schedule due to the needed for COVID-19.[9][22][25] It is currently ranked number 227 on Top 500 list of June, 2021[18] and number 80 on Green 500 list.[26] It is manufactured by Quanta Computer, Taiwan Fixed Network, and ASUS Cloud.[18][21][27][28][29]

## References

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1. ^ a b c Chien, Hui-ju; Chin, Jonathan (9 May 2018). "Nation's most powerful supercomputer unveiled". Taipei Times. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
2. ^ Chu, Tse-wei; Liu, Kuan-lin (8 May 2018). "Taiwan's new supercomputer now operating". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
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5. ^ "Taiwania 2 - QCT QuantaGrid D52G-4U/LC, Xeon Gold 6154 18C 3GHz, Mellanox InfiniBand EDR, NVIDIA Tesla V100 SXM2". www.top500.org. top500. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
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7. ^ "Taiwania 3 Supercomputer Powered by QCT Paves the Future of AI | QCT". 15 August 2021.
8. ^ Tu, Melody (May 31, 2019). "TAIWANIA 2 Supercomputer, Powered by NVIDIA, Comes Online | NVIDIA Blog". The Official NVIDIA Blog.
9. ^ a b "MOST Launches New Supercomputer to Help in Battle Against Coronavirus". www.icrt.com.tw.
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11. ^ "Taiwan launches new supercomputer to aid in fight against COVID-19 - Focus Taiwan". focustaiwan.tw. 8 June 2021.
12. ^ "COVID-19: Supercomputer to support research on the pandemic - Taipei Times". www.taipeitimes.com. June 10, 2021.
13. ^ "Editorial: Chip companies can help vaccine progress". www.worldakkam.com. 11 June 2021. Archived from the original on 24 October 2021. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
14. ^ a b c d "超級電腦-國家高速網路與計算中心". www.nchc.org.tw.
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17. ^ "Supercomputer-National Center for High-performance Computing". www.nchc.org.tw.
18. ^ a b c "Taiwania 3 - QCT QuantaPlex T42D-2U/4N, Xeon Platinum 8280 28C 2.7GHz, InfiniBand HDR 100 | TOP500". www.top500.org.
19. ^ "「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". www.narlabs.org.tw. June 8, 2021.
20. ^ "Taiwan launched a new supercomputer". opengovasia. com.
21. ^ a b ""Anti-Pandemic Technology 2.0" Calls on Efforts from All Disciplines. Taiwania 3 Joins in Combatting the Outbreak". www.narlabs.org.tw. June 8, 2021.
22. ^ a b "「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". www.nchc.org.tw.
23. ^ "National Center for High Performance Computing | TOP500". www.top500.org.
24. ^ "Taiwana computers" (JPG).
25. ^ "科技抗疫2.0 提案徵求影片". 7 June 2021 - via www.youtube.com.
26. ^ "Green500 List - June 2021 | TOP500". www.top500.org.
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28. ^ "The development progress of 3D Geospacial infrastructure in Taiwan" (PDF).
29. ^ "Taiwania 3 supercomputer - Google Search". www.google.com.

## See also

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* Semiconductor industry in Taiwan
* Taipei-1 (supercomputer)

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