Researchers in Taiwan are set to benefit from a significant technology leap as the National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) prepares to deploy a powerful new supercomputer based on NVIDIA technology. This system promises over eight times the Artificial Intelligence performance of the center´s previous Taiwania 2, signaling a major boost for initiatives in Artificial Intelligence, climate science, and quantum computing. The new infrastructure, announced at COMPUTEX, will feature NVIDIA HGX H200 platforms with more than 1,700 GPUs, advanced GB200 NVL72 rack-scale systems, and the Blackwell Ultra platform, all connected by NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand networking. Additional resources, such as NVIDIA DGX Spark workstations and HGX system clusters in the cloud, are planned to extend access to researchers and innovators from academic, government, and business sectors across Taiwan.
The supercomputer will play a pivotal role in advancing sovereign Artificial Intelligence, particularly through platforms like Taiwan AI RAP, which helps build generative Artificial Intelligence solutions tailored to local cultural and linguistic needs. Key initiatives include the Trustworthy AI Dialogue Engine (TAIDE), focused on creating Taiwanese large language models for natural language processing, translation, and intelligent customer support. Collaborative efforts involve contributions from government departments, educators, and news organizations, enabling the rapid development of foundation models such as Llama3.1-TAIDE and NVIDIA Nemotron. Early applications already support classroom learning, healthcare services, and epidemic tracking, with models providing conversational agents, educational content, and real-time news summaries.
In climate sciences, the supercomputer will enable more detailed and faster simulations as researchers leverage NVIDIA Earth-2 platforms, advanced Artificial Intelligence models like CorrDiff and GraphCast, and FourCastNet for global weather and climate predictions. The upgrade will allow for the execution of larger data analyses and more complex simulations, directly benefiting meteorological research. Moving into quantum computing, NCHC scientists are deploying NVIDIA CUDA-Q and cuQuantum to drive innovations in quantum machine learning, chemistry, and cryptography. Tools such as the Quantum Molecular Generator and the open-source cuTN-QSVM have already facilitated record-breaking quantum simulations and are supporting hybrid classical-quantum algorithm development. Plans to integrate NVIDIA DGX Quantum systems position NCHC at the forefront of scalable quantum research, reinforcing Taiwan’s status as a technological leader.
