A new national supercomputer has launched in Singapore.
Singapore last week launched Aspire 2B, its next-generation national research supercomputer, hosted at the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC).
The new system delivers up to 115 petaflops of performance, close to four times the combined capacity of current national research systems, Aspire 2A and Aspire 2A+.
Aspire 2B is equipped with more than 1,500 Nvidia H200 GPUs, with the government saying it was the country’s largest Nvidia cluster dedicated to research and public sector use. It also features AMD Epyc CPUs and 63.5PB of storage.
The new system is also expected to be connected to Quantinuum’s Helios quantum computer, with a targeted installation in Singapore near the end of this year.
Dr Terence Hung, chief executive of the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore, said: “Aspire 2B reflects Singapore’s ambition to strengthen its position in trusted AI and advanced computing. It provides researchers with the compute capabilities needed to tackle larger and more complex challenges in areas critical to Singapore’s future, including healthcare, sustainability, and urban resilience.
As NSCC marks its 10th anniversary, Aspire 2B also strengthens NSCC’s role as a strategic national HPC partner. It will support research innovation, strengthen talent and capability development, and enable the next phase of Singapore’s AI and compute-driven research ambitions.”
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