The establishment of an artificial intelligence (AI) computing center by an alliance of Taiwanese enterprises was announced yesterday, with the aim of advancing Taiwan’s AI capabilities.
The AI Computing Center (AICC) will be “the first in Asia” to use Nvidia Corp’s H200 AI chips that have 1.43 times the computing power of H100 chips, as well as advanced liquid-cooling systems provided by AI infrastructure solution provider Super Micro Computer Inc, ENLight Corp (翔耀實業) chairman Joe Lin (林以山) said at a press conference in Taipei.
AICC’s operations will officially start in the fourth quarter of this year with 64 servers, and will be located in Chief Telecom Co’s (是方電訊) smart Internet Data Center in Taipei, Lin said.
Photo: Wang Yi-hung, Taipei Times
“But eventually there will be a total of 256 servers,” with computing power totaling 93 PFLOPS (or petaFLOPS, floating-point operations per second, a measure of computer performance in computing), placing it around 15th place in the world’s ranking of supercomputers’ computing power, he added.
Lin did not say when all of the 256 servers would be up and running.
The purpose of the center is to “help Taiwan to advance its strength from
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