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The international Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNET) and the local Association for Medical and Bio-Informatics, Singapore (AMBIS) signed collaborations with the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore to explore joint activities aimed at developing and promoting the use of high-performance computing in the field of bioinformatics. The proposed activities include developing high-performance computing (HPC) capability and talent development for bioinformatics, education and outreach as well as strategies to promote the use of bioinformatics and HPC in Singapore’s biomedical sector. Find out more in this Media Release.

Data centers are considered “the world’s greatest energy guzzlers” and are estimated to consume a tenth of global energy production. Rapid technological innovation has led to greater energy consumption and, consequently, higher greenhouse gas emissions that are having visible and devastating impacts on the environment. Red Dot Analytics (RDA), a deep-tech company providing industrial AI software, has taken the pioneering AI and “cognitive digital twin” research by NTU and has digitally modelled NSCC’s entire operation to identify inefficiencies in its hot and cold air-mixing framework that led to a poor power usage effectiveness rating. The discovery – and the efforts to correct it – resulted in NSCC achieving energy cost savings of US$4,400 a month, as well as a 15% to 30% improvement in its cooling systems efficiencies. Find out more in this News Article.

In an agreement signed between Japan’s Research Organization for Information Science and Technology (RIST) and National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore in November 2021, Singapore researchers were granted regular access to 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 is facilitated by NSCC in partnership with RIST. The successful project awardees from Singapore span a number of research fields including materials research, advanced manufacturing & engineering and urban solutions & sustainability. Find out more in the Media Release

The national supercomputer and big data facilities of Australia and Singapore, the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI Australia), andNSCC are building on their already close partnership to deepen their joint activities into areas that will further improve technology, software development, staff and user training, and data sharing for both organisations over the next three years. Find out more in the Media Release.

The SupercomputingAsia Conference recognised key HPC pioneer-leaders with its annual SCA22 Awards. The winning teams from Asia, Australia and the US were also announced at the awards ceremony for the international Data Mover Challenge 2021 (DMC21) competition. Find out more in the Media Release.

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.

The HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC) in collaboration with the ISC Group revealed the top performers in the 10th annual ISC Student Cluster Competition. Remaining an all remote competition for a second year, the annual global competition culminated with an award ceremony broadcast as part of the virtual ISC High Performance conference proceedings this week. Aligned with the ISC High Performance conference digital-delivery, organizers rebooted the second year of the all remote SCC, garnering added support from Canada’s University of Toronto, SciNet Supercomputing Centre with the ongoing support of the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore. The prestigious institutions provided generous allocations of supercomputer system time to the teams on their highly utilized and in-demand production resources. Find out more in the Press Release.