New S$270 Million Grant to Boost National Supercomputing Infrastructure, HPC Capabilities and Talent Development
October 25, 2024Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the National Research Foundation Mr Heng Swee Keat announced a S$270 million grant to build Singapore’s next supercomputer and develop high performance computing (HPC) capabilities to support national research initiatives. The announcement was made at the official launch of the ASPIRE1 2A and 2A+ systems, which are research supercomputers managed by NSCC Singapore. Find out more here.
NSCC Singapore and Singtel AI Infrastructure to collaborate on an AI-powered R&D platform for academia and the research community
October 10, 2024Singtel RE:AI in partnership with the NSCC Singapore will explore making a diversity of high performance computing technologies available for the research community and collaborate on the Paragon platform to deliver seamless user experiences across different systems. A Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) was signed between NSCC Singapore and Singtel at the launch of RE:AI, which was officiated by Guest-of-Honour, Mr Gan Kim Yong, Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry. Find out more here.
Singapore inks MOU with Quantinuum, enabling access to their advanced quantum computer
July 24, 2024Singapore’s National Quantum Office (NQO), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), National University of Singapore (NUS), National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) and Quantinuum signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today, enabling access to Quantinuum’s advanced quantum computer, and to explore and collaborate on quantum computing use cases, focusing on computational biology. Find out more here.
The Winners of the Data Mover Challenge 2023 were announced at the SupercomputingAsia 2024 (SCA24) conference
February 29, 2024Organised by the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore, the International Data Mover Challenge (DMC) 2023 brought together experts from around the world to test their software and solutions for transferring huge amounts of research data. Representatives from the winning team were invited to SCA24 to present their winning solution at the conference. Find out more here.
Singapore’s Third National Climate Change Study (V3) presents the world’s highest resolution climate projections for Southeast Asia
January 5, 2024The Centre for Climate Research Singapore (CCRS) of the National Environmental Agency (NEA) held a symposium on 5 Jan 2024 to launch the findings of the 3rd National Climate Change Study (V3) that modelled the next generation of climate projections affecting Singapore and Southeast Asia. NSCC’s high performance computational resources were pivotal in streamlining the V3 study’s computational demands for extensive weather simulations and regional climate modelling. Find out more in the News Release.
HPC-AI Advisory Council Announces the Winners of the 6th APAC HPC-AI Competition
November 15, 2023The HPC-AI Advisory Council, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore and National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) Australia, today announced the results of the jointly organized, sixth iteration of the regional APAC HPC-AI student competition. The six-month-long competition included tasks and challenges focusing on tackling the pressing global climate problem and large language model inference through the use of HPC and AI technologies. Find out more in the Press Release.
Singapore’s Top Scientists Honoured at the President’s Science and Technology Award Ceremony
October 20, 2023The 2023 President’s Science and Technology Awards (PSTA) celebrated top talent in Singapore’s material science and space technologies fields earlier this evening. The PSTA is the highest honour conferred upon research scientists and engineers in Singapore whose work has resulted in significant scientific, technological, or economic benefits for the country. The winners received their awards from President Tharman Shanmugaratnam at the Istana. The President’s Science and Technology Medal was awarded to NSCC Steering Committee Chairman Mr Quek Gim Pew for his outstanding contributions in shaping Singapore’s Research, Innovation, and Enterprise (RIE) ecosystem. Find out more in the Media Release.
New Healthcare Innovation Centre Launched at SingHealth Duke-NUS Scientific Congress 2023
September 22, 2023The Alice Lee Innovation Centre of Excellence @ SGH Campus aims to accelerate healthcare innovations such as medical technology and digital healthcare solutions. One of the Centre’s key features is a new supercomputer and SingHealth’s first, called Computational Health Research and Optimisation for Medical Advancements (CHROMA), which was made possible through a partnership with the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore. CHROMA has high-performance computing capabilities that enables the processing and research of large amounts of clinical data. Find out more in the Media Release.
NUHS leverages supercomputer to drive AI in healthcare
August 26, 2023The Prescience supercomputer, a first in Singapore’s healthcare sector, is deployed to train artificial intelligence models that boost delivery of care. NUHS inked a collaborative agreement with the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore on 3 December 2021 to build this supercomputer dedicated to healthcare and medical research. Researchers are now able to use medical big data to train AI models using multiple NVIDIA DGX A100 compute nodes that can accommodate the large sizes of LLMs, which was previously not possible with single graphical processing unit (GPU) systems. Find out more in the Media Release.
High-Performance Computing Drives Singapore’s Digital Growth
June 5, 2023High-speed computing advances innovation and boosts competitiveness across sectors in Singapore, propelling the nation’s technological advancement and economic growth. Telecom Review connects with Tan Tin Wee, chief executive, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC), to learn about Singapore’s supercomputing landscape and initiatives to impact sectors. Read the interview piece here.
SupercomputingAsia 2023 (SCA23) conference announces recipients of annual SCA Awards and launch of the Data Mover Challenge 2023
March 1, 2023The SupercomputingAsia Conference recognised key high performance computing (HPC) pioneer-leaders with its annual SCA23 Awards. The international Data Mover Challenge 2023 (DMC23) was also launched at the conference. Find out more in the Media Release.
EU-ASEAN-Japan Symposium announces High-Performance Computing School resumption
March 1, 2023The continuation of the High-Performance Computing (HPC) School in 2023 to be held in Jakarta, Indonesia was announced during the EU-ASEAN-Japan Symposium at the Supercomputing Asia Conference (SCA) 2023. The school will be held in-person and will welcome back international luminaries to teach the fundamentals of HPC and its applications to critical domains to students from all ASEAN Member States. For the first time, the school director will be an ASEAN scientist. Find out more in the Media Release.