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The HPC-AI Advisory Council in collaboration with the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore today announced the university team winners of the 2020 APAC high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) competition. The ‘TinpoC’ team from the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan returned to the winner’s circle with another first place victory, together with second placed National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan and China’s Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in third. Special merit awards were also presented to teams from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and team ‘Valkyrie’ from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan. Find out more in the Press Release

A*STAR researchers in Singapore have developed a simulation which more accurately models the spread of droplets when a person with Covid-19 coughs in Singapore’s tropical environment. Working closely with the National Supercomputing Centre, they fed a combination of physics and mathematical equations, based on prior studies on the coronavirus, into a supercomputer to produce their simulation.

Singapore Polytechnic (SP) and Transwarp, with the support of the Ministry of Education, AI Singapore (AISG) and National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC), launched the first-of-its-kind local AI competition – the inaugural Singapore edition of the virtual Collegial Artificial Intelligence Innovation Competition (CAIIC) 2020. The competition enables youths from the junior colleges, Institute of Technical Education (ITE), polytechnics, universities and the public in Singapore to identify and develop innovative AI solutions. Singapore Polytechnic also announced a new partnership with NSCC to enable Singapore Polytechnic’s staff and students to develop AI innovations for local industries. Read more about the SP-NSCC MoU and the competition in the Media Release

ITE will leverage the power of high performance computing (HPC) for use in applied AI projects, pedagogy, workshops and training, and HPC-related student competitions in a new collaboration with NSCC. An MOU was signed between ITE and NSCC in a virtual ceremony on 2 October 2020. “Apart from providing local researchers with easy access to national supercomputing resources and capabilities to create new smart nation innovations, it is equally important to get our youth started early on HPC to nurture the next generation of data scientists, genomics researchers, advanced manufacturing technologists and AI scientists,” said Associate Professor Tan Tin Wee, Chief Executive of NSCC. Read more in the Media Release