This Chinese AI supercluster rivals platforms from NVIDIA, Huawei
What's the story
Chinese supercomputer maker Sugon has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure for data centers. The launch was made at an event in Kunshan, Jiangsu province. The scaleX platform is touted as China's first 10,000-card AI supercluster, capable of delivering over five eflops of total computing power. An eflop (exaflops) is a unit of measurement for supercomputers and high-performance AI hardware that can perform at least one quintillion floating-point operations per second.
Advanced capabilities
scaleX: A solution for complex AI scenarios
Sugon's Senior Vice President Li Bin described the scaleX 10,000-card supercluster as a "large-scale computing infrastructure designed for complex scenarios such as trillion-parameter models and AI for science." He emphasized that this infrastructure leverages the company's expertise in large-scale computer systems research and development. Some of the capabilities of scaleX have already surpassed those of NVIDIA's Rubin Ultra NVL576 rack, which is expected to launch in 2027.
Market competition
A response to AI infrastructure demand
The launch of the scaleX platform highlights the growing competition in the AI infrastructure market. This also indicates China's increasing demand for more computing power to handle data and perform different digital tasks. The new platform is expected to give tough competition to similar high-performance platforms from NVIDIA and Huawei Technologies, further strengthening China's position in the global tech arena.