New Delhi, Nov. 4 -- South Korea has launched its sixth national supercomputer, named Hangang, equipped with nearly 8,500 Nvidia GPUs and a theoretical peak computing performance of 614.7 petaflops, as the country steps up efforts to strengthen its artificial intelligence and scientific research capabilities, according to The Korea Times report.

Named after the Han River that flows through Seoul, Hangang is designed to support advanced AI workloads alongside traditional high-performance computing tasks, including weather forecasting, vehicle crash simulations and other complex scientific calculations, the report said.

The launch ceremony was held on Monday at the headquarters of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information ...