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Taiwania 3 (Traditional Chinese (Taiwan): 台灣杉三號) is one of the
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s made by
Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
, and also the newest one (August, 2021). It is placed in the National Center for High-performance Computing of NARLabs. There are 50,400 cores in total with 900 nodes, using
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Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4 GHz CPU (28 Cores/
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) and using CentOS as Operating System. It is an open access for public supercomputer. It is currently open access to scientists and more to do specific research after getting permission from
Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
's National Center for High-performance Computing. This is the third
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of the Taiwania series. It uses CentOS x86_64 7.8 as its system operator and Slurm Workload Manager as workflow manager to ensure better performance. Taiwania 3 uses InfiniBand HDR100 100 Gbit/s high speed Internet connection to ensure better performance of the
supercomputer A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second ( FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...
. The main
memory Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If past events could not be remembered, ...
capability is 192 GB. There's currently two
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Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4 GHz CPU (28 Cores/
CPU A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, and ...
) inside each node. The full calculation capability is 2.7PFLOPS. It is launched into operation in November 2020 before schedule due to the needed for
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. It is currently ranked number 227 on
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list of June, 2021 and number 80 on
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list. It is manufactured by
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, Taiwan Fixed Network, and ASUS Cloud.


Capability and specifications

This
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's Rmax is 2297.6 TFLOPS, with Rpeak at 4354.6 TFLOPS and Nmax at 4,354,560, costing 563.85 kW. The housing is mainly designed and manufactured by ASUS Cloud, owned by Taiwan government which has experiences on constructing
supercomputer A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second ( FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...
housing and storage device housing The hardware is provided by
Quanta Computer Quanta Computer Incorporated () () is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of notebook computers and other electronic hardware. Its customers include Apple Inc., Dell, Hewlett-Packard Inc., Acer Inc., Alienware, Amazon.com, Cisco, Fujitsu, Gericom, Lenov ...
, which mainly manufactures servers.


Software

Software Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...
details are listed below (all data are according to
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and NCHC): *
Operating system An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also in ...
: CentOS x86_64 7.8 *Workload manager : Slurm Workload Manager *
Compiler In computing, a compiler is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language (the ''source'' language) into another language (the ''target'' language). The name "compiler" is primarily used for programs that ...
: Intel Parallel Studio XE Composer Edition for Fortran and C++ Linux 2020 Update 4 *
Math library In computer science, a math library (or maths library) is a component of a programming language's standard library containing Subroutine, functions (or subroutines) for the most common mathematical functions, such as trigonometry and exponentiation ...
: Intel Math Kernel Library for
Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...
2020 Update 4 *MPI : Intel MPI Library for Linux 2019 Update 9


Hardware

Hardware details are listed below (all data are according to
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and NCHC): *
CPU A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, and ...
:
Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...
Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4 GHz
CPU A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, and ...
(28 Cores/
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) *
Main memory Computer data storage is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media that are used to retain digital data. It is a core function and fundamental component of computers. The central processing unit (CPU) of a computer ...
: 192 GB/
node In general, a node is a localized swelling (a "knot") or a point of intersection (a vertex). Node may refer to: In mathematics *Vertex (graph theory), a vertex in a mathematical graph *Vertex (geometry), a point where two or more curves, lines, ...
(172800 GB total) * Interconnection :
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Mellanox InfiniBand HDR100 Hardware basically uses :
QuantaPlex T42D-2U (4-Node) Dense Memory Multi-node Compute Server
manufactured by
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.
Operating temperature: 5 °C to 35 °C (41 °F to 95 °F), operating relative humidity: 20% to 85%RH. It has two processors per node.
The
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Xeon
CPU A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, and ...
and memory mentioned above is inside it.


Speed

Speed details are listed below. *Rpeak : 4354.6 Tera
FLOPS In computing, floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations. For such cases, it is a more accurate meas ...
*Rmax : 2297.6 Tera
FLOPS In computing, floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations. For such cases, it is a more accurate meas ...
P.S. This machine relies on
CPU A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, and ...
to calculate.


Accessibility

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series have always been available for everybody access through iService and pay according to their requested time and
CPU A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, and ...
s and GPUs.


Films involved

Seqalu movie was filmed in collaboration with TWCC, a national service provided by
Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
. TWCC includes enormous calculation resource provided by Taiwania supercomputer series. Taiwania 3 is one of the resource providers of the film. The
programmer A computer programmer, sometimes referred to as a software developer, a software engineer, a programmer or a coder, is a person who creates computer programs — often for larger computer software. A programmer is someone who writes/creates ...
s at National Centers for High-performance Computing of
Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
designed the
algorithm In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm () is a finite sequence of rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific Computational problem, problems or to perform a computation. Algorithms are used as specificat ...
s used in the simulations such as arrows and guns firing.


Taiwanese Environment Evaluation Contributions

The system operates under NCHC, NARLabs, which means it is part of the Taiwanese government. It contributes to the federal analytics by assisting on combining the information generated by the miscellaneous equipment all around
Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
. It also help via combining the LIDAR, visual camera, DSM, and more together to form a map during disasters. Moreover, it constructs 3D visualizations for the Taiwanese government along with other supercomputers to assist on rescue, research, training, decision making, mapping, and more.


Biology and medication

Taiwania 3 is a
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aimed to help the biomedical development. Taiwania 3 supercomputer was meant to help scientists find a solution to the COVID-19 pandemic. It has also been connected to the Taiwanese biological laboratories and their data base. The laboratories must reach a certain level in order to make contact with the system.


History


2019

In 2019, the NCHC started project on Taiwania 3 construction...


2020

*November 2020
Taiwania 3 supercomputer launched officially by NCHC. *November 2020
Taiwania 3 supercomputer joins
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research


2021

*May 2021
outbreak of COVID-19 in
Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
started *June 2021
Taiwania 3 grandly activates officially. *July 3 of 2021
Tech V2.0 Coronavirus project last registration date.
note that the deadline has been moved to 8/31 *September 2021
unveiled collaboration to film Seqalu.


Architecture

Taiwania 3 Supercomputer is a
CPU A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, and ...
-based supercomputer, with about fifty thousand cores of
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Xeon
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s. This supercomputer uses Linux as OS, just like any other
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supercomputers. More information about supercomputer architecture, visit here!


Comparison with other Taiwania supercomputers

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series is a family of
supercomputers A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions p ...
made by
Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
during 21st century. Taiwania 2 supercomputer, a GPU machine also made by the NCHC of
Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
, has a capability of 9 Peta
FLOPS In computing, floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations. For such cases, it is a more accurate meas ...
, nearly 4 times greater compared with the 2.2 ~ 2.7 Peta
FLOPS In computing, floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations. For such cases, it is a more accurate meas ...
of Taiwania 3 (which uses mainly
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s, just like Taiwania 1). The main difference between Taiwania 2 and 3 are the main calculators and objectives. Taiwania 2 is a GPU machine learning usage supercomputer, whereas Taiwania 3 is a
CPU A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, and ...
computing device for general scientific research usage. They are very different from head to toe. Compare with Taiwania 2, Taiwania 3 is more alike with the Taiwania 1 supercomputer also of
Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
. They both uses
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and are both more open access to the public (August, 2021). These two supercomputers both uses
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CPU A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, and ...
s to perform calculations. Their main difference is the capacity of the two
supercomputers A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions p ...
. These three supercomputers are all currently part of iService systems and partially TWCC computing systems, though Taiwania 3 was to replace Taiwania 1. The new replacement will be Taiwania 4, a CPU HPC which will replace the retiring Taiwania 1 when finished. Taiwania 3 is a
CPU A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, and ...
supercomputer A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second ( FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...
made by Taiwan. It has total capacity of 2.2 Peta
FLOPS In computing, floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations. For such cases, it is a more accurate meas ...
according to NCHC of Taiwan. It is a 21st-century HPC, meaning that it uses " Multitasking" to perform high performance computations. Other than using
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GPUs to boost capacity, this system uses
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Xeon
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s to calculate, making it closer to our regular life programming (but still a little bit different). Because it's using
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s, the overall capacity on
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is not as good as
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GPU
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systems


See also

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Taiwania (supercomputer) Taiwania () is a supercomputer series in Taiwan owned by the National Applied Research Laboratories. History The supercomputer was activated on 9 May 2018 after a two-year program to establish it with a cost of NT$430 million. In April 2023, it ...
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Supercomputers A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions p ...
*
Computer cluster A computer cluster is a set of computers that work together so that they can be viewed as a single system. Unlike grid computers, computer clusters have each node set to perform the same task, controlled and scheduled by software. The comp ...
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Xeon Xeon ( ) is a brand of x86 microprocessors designed, manufactured, and marketed by Intel, targeted at the non-consumer workstation, server, and embedded system markets. It was introduced in June 1998. Xeon processors are based on the same arc ...


References

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