South Korea signed a 382.5 billion-won contract with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) to install its sixth state supercomputer by mid-2026, the Ministry of Science and ICT's Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information said Wednesday.
The new system will feature 8,496 Nvidia graphics processing units and 600 petaflops of computing power, replacing the current Nurion system to boost AI research. HPE, which beat Lenovo in the bid, will provide five years of maintenance as part of the agreement, the release said.
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