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The 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.

The 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.

The 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-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.