( November 2, 2026, 05:45 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: South Korea on Monday held a ceremony to mark the start of operations for its sixth national supercomputer, which the government expects to rank among the world’s 10 most powerful machines, the Ministry of Science and ICT said. The supercomputer, named Hangang and equipped with 8,496 advanced GPUs and 9,936 CPUs, offers 614 petaflops of theoretical computing power and can support advanced artificial intelligence-based science and technology research as well as conventional research. The new machine, which will officially begin operations in mid-December, is about 24 times as powerful as the country’s previous national supercomputer, introduced in 2018, the ministry said.The statement is attached (in Korean)....
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