Taiwania (supercomputer)


Taiwania is a supercomputer in Taiwan owned by the National Applied Research Laboratories. A second similar but much more powerful supercomputer, Taiwania 2, was unveiled soon after.

History

The supercomputer was activated on 9 May 2018 after a two-year program to establish it with a cost of NT$430 million.

Technical specifications

The supercomputer has a memory of 3.4 petabytes with a maximum speed of 1.33 quadrillion FLOPS. The hardware takes up a total area of 33 m2.

Taiwania 2

History

The Taiwania 2 supercomputer is a follow on to the Taiwania supercomputer designed by the National Center for High-Performance Computing. Taiwania 2 debuted at 20 on the November 2018 TOP500 and 10 on the Green500.

Technical specifications

Taiwania 2 has a computing capacity of 9 quadrillion floating-point operations per second. Its hardware consists of 252 nodes, each of which contains two CPUs and eight GPUs. It runs the CentOS operating system.