Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has been selected by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), a government-funded research institute, to build a more advanced and versatile computing architecture for its sixth national supercomputer KISTI-6 – expected to become the most powerful supercomputer in South Korea.
Featuring a 100% fanless direct liquid cooling system architecture, KISTI-6 will serve a wide range of data-intensive research projects and form the backbone of AI simulation research and development in Korea.
Joseph Yang, General manager, HPC and AI, APAC and India, HPE, said: “We are proud to support this strategic initiative to strengthen Korea’s capabilities in fundamental scientific research and advanced artificial intelligence, aligned with their broader mission to support national R&D advancement.”
KISTI President Sik Lee, said: “Our goal is to cement Korea’s position as a leading country for supercomputing and sovereign AI innovation,” said Sik Lee, President, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information. “We want to nurture experts in data utilization, high performance computing and AI technologies to help bolster our scientific and technological competitiveness. Making AI accessible and inclusive is critical to encouraging innovation across industries and enhancing societal impact.”
KISTI-6 will be built on the HPE Cray Supercomputing EX4000 system with two partitions, one featuring NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips and another featuring 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors.
The latest accelerators will process the large amounts of data required for AI training, inference, and simulation.
