The most powerful supercomputer in Central Asia launched in Kazakhstan

President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visited the National Supercomputer Center Alemcloud in Astana on July 9, where he participated in the launch ceremony of a supercomputer based on NVIDIA H200 graphics processors.

As reported by BAKU.WS with reference to zakon.kz, the installation and launch of the system took place in the new data center of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry of Kazakhstan together with international partners.

It is known that the new supercomputer cluster is capable of providing performance of up to 2 exaflops (from English exaFLOPS - a unit of measurement of computing systems performance, equal to one quintillion (10^18) floating-point operations per second) according to the calculation method in FP8 format, making it the most powerful computing solution in the Central Asian region.

A supercomputer is a set of various servers and data storage systems. The computing machine operates on the basis of GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) and is a neural network, a model of artificial intelligence.