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Following the mid-term review of the five-year Research, Innovation and Enterprise 2020 (RIE2020) plan, Singapore will be investing more in research and development (R&D) in the three areas of digital technology, cell therapy manufacturing and sustainable urban food production, including cultured meat and microbial proteins. This was announced by National Research Foundation (NRF) chairman and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat at the end of the 11th Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council Meeting on Wednesday.

National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore, host of the SupercomputingAsia (SCA) 2019 conference held this week in Singapore, challenged the academic and commercial sector to test their tools and products on the 100G advance research and education network connecting NSCC Singapore with the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) in Australia, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) in Korea, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan and StarLight in the USA. Seven teams from the USA, Japan and international teams competed in the inaugural Data Mover Challenge with each bringing a unique approach to the problem of moving large science data sets. Read more in the Media Release.

Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRF) will pump in S$200m to upgrade the country’s supercomputing infrastructure in a bid to provide research institutions and universities with wider access to high-performance computing capabilities. Speaking at the opening of Supercomputing Asia 2019 (SCA19)on 12 March, Singapore finance minister Heng Swee Keat said the investment, which is part of the S$19bn Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) 2020 plan, will provide 15 to 20 petaflops of high-end computing performance – equivalent to the computing power of a million laptops.

Co-organised by the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore and HPC-AI Advisory Council, the competition brought together 18 student teams from 7 Asia Pacific countries for a 5-month challenge. The competition yielded winning solutions that can improve the real-life accuracy for weather forecasts and image recognition. Participants utilized NSCC Singapore’s ASPIRE 1 (Singapore’s only Petascale Supercomputer) and were able to perform multiple and complex calculations and simulations, processing ImageNet dataset and CONUS 2.5km data in under ten minutes. Read more in the Media Release.

The National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore is Pawsey’s first international partner as NSCC and Pawsey signs an MOU to boost HPC scientific collaboration. Read more in the Media Release.

Co-organised by the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore and HPC-AI Advisory Council, the competition brought together 18 student teams from 7 Asia Pacific countries for a 5-month challenge. The competition yielded winning solutions that can improve the real-life accuracy for weather forecasts and image recognition. Participants utilized NSCC Singapore’s ASPIRE 1 (Singapore’s only Petascale Supercomputer) and were able to perform multiple and complex calculations and simulations, processing ImageNet dataset and CONUS 2.5km data in under ten minutes. Read more in the Media Release.