Taiwan’s new supercomputer now operating

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/05/08
By: Chu Tse-wei and Kuan-lin Liu

Taipei, May 8 (CNA) Taiwan’s new supercomputer, the “Taiwania,” started officially operating Tuesday, which, according to an official of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) will contribute tremendously to the country’s tech and research development.

The Taiwania, which is the country’s first petascale supercomputer, has a central processing capability of up to 1.33 peta floating point operations per second (pflops), and took two years and NT$430 million (US$14.426 million) for the ministry’s National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs) to build.

In layman’s terms, “to match what a 1 pflops computer system can do in just one second, you’d have to perform one calculation every second for 31,688,765 years,” according to Indiana University’s website.    [FULL  STORY]