NSCC Singapore Launches Next-Generation Supercomputer ASPIRE 2B

On 8 June 2026, Minister for Digital Development and Information, and Minister-in-charge of Cybersecurity and Smart Nation Group, Mrs Josephine Teo, launched ASPIRE 2B, Singapore’s newest and most powerful national  supercomputer. Over 100 distinguished representatives from the government, research institutions and industry partners gathered to celebrate this milestone at the NTU Innovation Centre.

Coinciding with NSCC’s 10th anniversary this year, this launch also represents Singapore’s growth in HPC and the trajectory of the nation’s research. With up to 115 petaFLOPS of compute capability, it is capable of more than 100 quadrillion calculations per second, offering close to four times the combined capacity of current national research systems, ASPIRE 2A and ASPIRE 2A+. It also marks a hundred-fold increase in compute power in just a decade since our first supercomputer, ASPIRE 1, was launched.

In her opening address, Minister Mrs Josephine Teo highlighted the nation’s commitment to harness the benefits of AI for the Public Good, Singapore and the World, as well as the importance of advancing our computing infrastructure to support these emerging paradigms of research. She emphasised that the true measure of success lies not in the scale of hardware alone, but in how effectively these capabilities are utilised to enable scientific breakthroughs, innovation, and real-world impact for the research community. 

NSCC Chief Executive, Dr Terence Hung’s welcome address expanded on the changing research landscape, noting how the explosion of data coupled with rapid advances in AI has created an unprecedented demand for more compute power. ASPIRE 2B provides this additional support, enabling researchers to combine AI, simulations and large-scale data analytics to tackle more complex problems at pace. 

He also highlighted the importance of going beyond just providing powerful supercomputing systems. He expanded on NSCC’s next phase of development, NSCC 3.0, which will place greater emphasis on user enablement, technical partnerships and capability development across the research ecosystem, and focus on future-ready infrastructure that can evolve and respond to changing user demands.

Complementing the programme were guided data centre tours and a poster networking session, where the representatives were given an exclusive first look at the ASPIRE 2B Data Centre and explored how HPC and AI  is enabling researchers to tackle increasingly complex challenges, accelerate discoveries, and translate research into real-world impact. 

Watch the events highlight video here!