The national Supercomputer-5 Nurion, which was put into operation in November 2018. @KISTIand
Korea KISTI: “Nurion” 17th in the world Performance: Purchased for 90 billion won
Korean supercomputer:
South Korea invested more than 90 billion won in 2018.
It owns “Nurion” introduced by a US company, not independently developed.
Performance of “Nurion”:
Nurion’s computing performance is 17th in the world as of June.
Compared to No. 1 Tomitake, it is equivalent to 1/20 of the level.
Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information: (KISTI)
South Korea’s gross domestic product (GDP) is 31.6% of Japan.
However, he pointed out that the total performance and number of supercomputers in South Korea is only 3.6% and 10.3% in Japan.
Not only the investment scale related to supercomputers, but also the budget scale as a percentage of GDP is relatively low.
Following Nurion:
KISTI is preparing for the development of the sixth supercomputer, which will be the successor to Nurion.
The full-scale promotion plan is
It will be decided by discussions with related government agencies and budgeting.
Will foreign products be introduced like Nurion?
Maybe we will do our own development
It will be decided through discussions.
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