South Korea inaugurates Hangang AI supercomputer
South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and KISTI inaugurated the sixth-generation national supercomputer Hangang, with public service scheduled to begin on December 16. The 382.5 billion won system has 8,496 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper superchips, 9,936 CPUs, 205 PB of storage and a 400 Gbps network; DongA Science reported a measured 342.6 PFLOPS and an estimated global rank of 12th in June. Its budget reportedly rose by about 50% as GPU and memory price inflation made procurement more difficult.
Hangang adds substantial CPU-and-GPU computing capacity for South Korean AI research, including the K-Moonshot program, while its procurement costs illustrate the effect of AI-driven hardware inflation.
韓國科學技術資訊通訊部與韓國科學技術資訊研究院（KISTI）今日舉行第六代國家超級電腦「漢江」啟用典禮，總經費 3,825 億韓圜，12 月 16 日起開放服務。
韓國科學技術資訊通訊部（Ministry of Science and ICT）與國營的韓國科學技術資訊研究院（KISTI）於大田 KISTI 總部舉行啟用典禮，產官學研約 200 人出席。「漢江」（Hangang）以流經首爾的漢江命名，建置經費 3,825 億韓元（約 2.76 億美元），接替 2018 年上線的第五代超級電腦 Nurion，訂 12 月 16 日開放服務。
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