Korea’s supercomputer performance was found to be eighth on the planet. The variety of units owned by country ranked ninth with a complete of 8 units. That is the results of the ‘Top 500’, a world supercomputer rating announced on the twenty first (local time).
In line with data released by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI, President Kim Jae-soo) on the twenty fourth, the domestic supercomputers in the highest 500 are Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology’s ‘SSC-21’ (twentieth place) and ‘SSC-21 Scalable Module’ (387th) â–³’Guru’ (thirty seventh) and ‘Maru (thirty eighth)’ by the Korea Meteorological Administration â–³SKT’s ‘Titan’ (forty seventh) â–³’Dream-AI’ (207th) by Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) â–³ KT’s ‘KT DigiX Super POD’ (58th) â–³ Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)’s ‘Nurion’ (forty ninth), etc.
KISTI participated within the ‘Supercomputing Conference (ISC 2023)’ held in Hamburg, Germany from the twenty first (local time) to the twenty fifth, where the highest 500 rankings were announced and awards got. It operates an exhibition booth and presents supercomputing services and various R&D achievements to advertise research cooperation with overseas corporations and research institutes.
Within the Top 500 announced this time, ‘Frontier’ of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US took first place for the second consecutive yr following last yr. The measured performance of Frontier, which has been holding the highest spot since June of last yr, is 1.194 exaflops (EF), and it is feasible to calculate 119.4 light cycles per second.
In second and third place, ‘Fugaku’, jointly developed by Japan’s Institute of Physical and Chemical Research and Fujitsu, and ‘Rumi’, developed by the Finnish Science IT Center, respectively, were named.
There was little change within the rankings except that Microsoft Azure’s ‘Explorer-WUS3’ and Nvidia’s ‘Free–EOS 128 Node Digix SuperfioD’ entered the highest 20 with eleventh and 14th respectively.
By way of performance, the US accounted for 45.1%, China 12.0%, and Japan 10.9% of the highest 500 rankings, accounting for 68% of the overall. (26.8%), Germany recorded 36 units (7.2%).
Reporter Jeong Byeong-il jbi@aitimes.com
