South Korea is preparing to switch on a supercomputer capable of performing up to 614 quadrillion calculations per second, with researchers and companies among those lining up for access.
Hangang, the country’s sixth national supercomputer, is scheduled to enter official service in December and will feature 8,496 GPUs, 9,936 CPUs, 205 PB of storage, and network speeds above 400 Gbps.
The government plans to allocate its computing resources among national projects, researchers, universities, and companies, giving Korean organizations another route to high-end computing without securing their own GPUs or relying on private cloud services.
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