The National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) in Taiwan has announced a new AI supercomputing system designed to support research in quantum computing, sovereign AI, and climate science. Built by ASUS and powered by NVIDIA technologies, the new system features NVIDIA HGX H200 systems with over 1,700 GPUs, NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 rack-scale systems, and the Blackwell Ultra-based NVIDIA HGX B300 platform. Interconnected by NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand, the system is expected to provide over eight times the AI performance of the previous Taiwania 2 system and will become operational later this year.
In the domain of sovereign AI, the supercomputer will back initiatives such as Taiwan AI RAP and TAIDE (Trustworthy AI Dialogue Engine), which are focused on developing local large language models (LLMs) customized for Taiwanese cultural and linguistic contexts. Applications include AI chatbots for education, healthcare support tools using retrieval-augmented generation, and automated news summarization systems for epidemic monitoring. TAIDE currently offers foundation models including Llama3.1-TAIDE and is expanding using NVIDIA’s Nemotron framework. The supercomputer will support these applications by enabling accelerated model training and inference at scale.
For scientific computing, NCHC is supporting advanced climate simulations using NVIDIA Earth-2, PhysicsNeMo, and NIM microservices for global weather modeling with AI-based upscaling and forecasting. On the quantum front, researchers are leveraging the NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform and cuQuantum library to develop tools such as the Quantum Molecular Generator and cuTN-QSVM for quantum machine learning and chemical modeling. A recent milestone includes a 784-qubit simulation performed using cuTN-QSVM. NCHC plans to extend this work by integrating NVIDIA DGX Quantum systems to develop hybrid quantum-accelerated computing architectures.
Full details are available in the official NVIDIA blog announcement here.
May 20, 2025
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