AI DEVELOPMENT: Firms would pay less than NT$100 per hour to use the Taiwan Computing Cloud, a better deal than offered by Google, Microsoft and Amazon

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 07, 2019
By: Lin Chia-nan  /  Staff reporter

The Taiwan Computing Cloud platform, which is backed by domestically developed supercomputer Taiwania 2, is to be opened to commercial use next month, featuring lower application fees and better security than foreign suppliers, the National Applied Research Laboratories (NARL) said.

The platform was built by the NARL’s National Center for High-performance Computing and local firms Asustek Computer Inc, Quanta Computer Inc and Taiwan Mobile Co, with a goal of accelerating the nation’s artificial intelligence (AI) development, the Ministry of Science and Technology said.

The platform is run on the center’s Taiwania 2, which has 2,016 of Nvidia’s Tesla V100 graphic processing units (GPUs) and a computing capacity of 9 quadrillion floating-point operations per second, the ministry said.

The program has been running trials since May, center deputy director-general Lin Hsi-ching (林錫慶) told the Taipei Times on Tuesday.    [FULL  STORY]