That infrastructure, a collaboration between Taiwan AI Cloud and the island’s National Centre for High-Performance Computing, is expected to launch its initial phase with a capacity of 80 petaflops in December, said Peter Wu, CEO of Asus Cloud and Taiwan AI Cloud, in an interview with the South China Morning Post.
Located in the southern city of Tainan, the supercomputer would eventually have a total capacity of 250 petaflops. One petaflop is equal to 1 trillion calculations per second.
Wu said Taiwan’s latest supercomputer project would boost the island’s total computing capacity by at least 50 per cent. It forms part of the island’s efforts to become a “top three computing power in Asia”.
In February, the Taiwanese government’s technology council said it plans to expand the island’s overall computing capacity to around 1,200 petaflops by 2029, from 160 petaflops at present.
