China Puts 100,000-Card Supercomputing Core Node Online as AI Demand Surges
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Updated · Global Times · Jul 9
China Puts 100,000-Card Supercomputing Core Node Online as AI Demand Surges
2 articles · Updated · Global Times · Jul 9
Summary
Zhengzhou's new national supercomputing internet core node went online Thursday, adding more than 100,000 domestic AI computing cards as China's largest single homegrown AI computing resource pool.
The node is meant to ease fast-rising demand for training large models, fill Central China's computing-power gap and improve nationwide scheduling of supercomputing resources across the integrated network.
China's broader supercomputing internet platform already aggregates more than 3.5 million CPU cores and 250,000 GPU cards, with 1.4 million users, 7,300 connected services and monthly access above 11.3 million.
More than 300 applications have been adapted to the core node across fields including biomedicine, quantum computing and meteorology, with state media citing protein folding and trillion-atom molecular dynamics as proof of high-load reliability.
Officials and researchers say the build-out should cut AI token costs, speed domestic chip and software iteration, and strengthen China's independent computing infrastructure amid global AI competition and external technology constraints.