{"id":323201,"date":"2026-02-06T09:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/323201\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:46:08","slug":"china-trials-its-largest-locally-made-ai-computing-resource-in-major-infrastructure-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/323201\/","title":{"rendered":"China trials its largest locally made AI computing resource in major infrastructure push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s state-backed SuperComputing Network (SCNet), a major computing resource provider, has deployed a new node for beta testing, powered by the country\u2019s largest domestically made artificial intelligence computing cluster.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The node, which began trial runs on Thursday in Zhengzhou, central Henan province, consists of three scaleX platforms from Chinese supercomputer developer Sugon, which support the deployment of more than 30,000 AI acceleration cards, according to statements from both SCNet and Sugon.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sugon is publicly listed in Shanghai as Dawning Information Industry.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">SCNet did not disclose the total computing power of the node, but based on the performance of a single Sugon scaleX, the three platforms could deliver a combined computing power of 15 eflops.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">An eflop, short for exa floating-point operations per second, measures the performance of supercomputers and high-performance AI hardware that can calculate at least one quintillion floating-point operations per second.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Based on the performance of a single Sugon scaleX, the three platforms could deliver a combined computing power of 15 eflops. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5cf84957-af87-4cad-8f33-088fd80c8a57_4d872472.jpg\" title=\"Based on the performance of a single Sugon scaleX, the three platforms could deliver a combined computing power of 15 eflops. Photo: Handout\"\/>Based on the performance of a single Sugon scaleX, the three platforms could deliver a combined computing power of 15 eflops. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Currently, the world\u2019s most powerful supercomputer is El Capitan from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which achieved 1.8 eflops at its maximum performance, according to the latest list from TOP500, a project ranking high-performance computing systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s state-backed SuperComputing Network (SCNet), a major computing resource provider, has deployed a new node for beta testing,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,9499,8472,289,290,314,7095,155734,18,5218,19,17,18980,292,14664,155733,82],"class_list":["post-323201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-infrastructure","tag-alibaba","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-computing","tag-cuda","tag-dawning-information-industry","tag-eire","tag-huawei","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-model","tag-nvidia","tag-semiconductor","tag-sugon","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116023052396923073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}