{"id":181651,"date":"2024-01-29T12:28:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T18:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/chinas-first-natively-built-supercomputer-goes-online-the-central-intelligent-computing-center-is-liquid-cooled-and-built-for-ai"},"modified":"2024-01-29T12:28:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T18:28:11","slug":"chinas-first-natively-built-supercomputer-goes-online-the-central-intelligent-computing-center-is-liquid-cooled-and-built-for-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/chinas-first-natively-built-supercomputer-goes-online-the-central-intelligent-computing-center-is-liquid-cooled-and-built-for-ai","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s first natively built supercomputer goes online \u2014 the Central Intelligent Computing Center is liquid-cooled and built for AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-first-natively-built-supercomputer-goes-online-the-central-intelligent-computing-center-is-liquid-cooled-and-built-for-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China Telecom claims it has built the country\u2019s first supercomputer constructed entirely with Chinese-made components and technology (via <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ithome.com\/0\/747\/560.htm\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.ithome.com\/0\/747\/560.htm\">ITHome<\/a>). Based in Wuhan, the Central Intelligent Computing Center supercomputer is reportedly built for AI and can train large language models (LLM) with trillions of parameters. Although China has built supercomputers with domestic hardware and software before, going entirely domestic is a new milestone for the country\u2019s tech industry.<\/p>\n<p>Exact details on the Central Intelligent Computing Center are scarce. What\u2019s clear so far: The supercomputer is purportedly made with only Chinese parts; it can train AI models with trillions of parameters; and it uses liquid cooling. It\u2019s unclear exactly how much performance the supercomputer has. A five-exaflop figure is mentioned in ITHome\u2019s report, but to our eyes it seems that the publication was talking about the total computational power of China Telecom\u2019s supercomputers, and not just this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Telecom claims it has built the country\u2019s first supercomputer constructed entirely with Chinese-made components and technology (via ITHome). Based in Wuhan, the Central Intelligent Computing Center supercomputer is reportedly built for AI and can train large language models (LLM) with trillions of parameters. Although China has built supercomputers with domestic hardware and software before, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}