South Korea launches Hangang, a $276M supercomputer

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South Korea has launched Hangang, a $276 million national supercomputer with 8,496 Nvidia GPUs and 614.7 petaflops of computing power. Built by the Ministry of Science and ICT and KISTI at a cost of 382.5 billion won, it is South Korea's sixth national supercomputer and replaces Nurion, deployed in 2018. It is expected to rank among the world's top 10 supercomputers and will support AI and scientific research.

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