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NSCC, SingHealth and NVIDIA have collaborated to develop a research ecosystem of hardware and software tools to support healthcare and medical research at Singapore’s largest public healthcare cluster. These include a new supercomputer and access to advanced software, training and high-performance computing (HPC)-enabled pre-trained AI models to significantly accelerate large-scale and complex healthcare research. The collaborations were signed at the Opening Ceremony of the annual international SupercomputingAsia 2022 (SCA22) conference and reflects the theme of the SupercomputingAsia 2022 (SCA22) conference, “Towards Supercomputing for All”, which highlights the growing ubiquity of advanced supercomputing resources in an increasing number of fields. Find out more in the Media Release.

National Supercomputing Centre Singapore (NSCC) and National University Health System (NUHS) inked a collaborative agreement to build a petascale national supercomputing resource that will serve Singapore’s medical and healthcare research needs by middle of next year. The five-year Research, Innovation and Enterprise 2020 (RIE2020) plan had allocated funds for research and development (R&D) in three high impact areas, including healthcare. Collaborating to provide the infrastructure and operational components respectively, the new system by NSCC and NUHS will benefit clinical researchers who will be able to train and run complex computations of healthcare models. This supercomputing infrastructure, named “PRESCIENCE”, is used to train AI models that predict patient health trajectories and recommends when a patient’s condition may deteriorate. Find out more in the Media Release.

The HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC) and National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore today announced the university team winners of its annual HPC-AI challenge, the 4th APAC HPC-AI Competition. The annual APAC HPC-AI competition’s mission is to bridge the gap between high-performance computing (HPC) and AI use, and its application potential as part of talent development for participants from universities and research centers. This year’s competition consisted of 36 teams from 13 countries and regions in APAC. With the continued support of NSCC Singapore, student competitors were provided with hands-on access to the Singapore-based advanced supercomputing resources. Teams were challenged with mastering one HPC task (GROMACS) and one AI task (DLRM), the same complex HPC and AI workloads that are integral to today’s major applications. Find out more in the Media Release.

A new agreement between Japan’s Research Organization for Information Science and Technology (RIST) and National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore opens the path for Singapore researchers to regularly access and request for supercomputing resources from the world’s most powerful supercomputer, Japan’s Fugaku system. In the first such arrangement of its kind outside of Japan, Singapore researchers can now apply for available resources through an annual Call for Projects to Fugaku, which will be coordinated by NSCC and RIST. The agreement which was signed between RIST and NSCC is a milestone for both organisations. The agreement builds on an earlier Memorandum of Understanding on Information Exchange Concerning Promotion of Supercomputer Utilization between RIST and NSCC. Find out more in the Media Release.