SK Telecom (SKT) announced on February 12 that it has doubled its supercomputer "Titan," which serves as the brain of its super-large AI model "Aidat."
A supercomputer infrastructure capable of processing vast amounts of data quickly and accurately is essential to run supermassive AIs that cover billions of parameters or more.
SKT has built and operated its own supercomputer since 2021, and has expanded it to 1040 NVIDIA A100 GPUs this time. It is more than twice as large as before.
SKT's supercomputer supports performance of more than 17.1 petaflops (meaning 1,000 trillion math operations per second), making it one of the best performance in the world, the company explained.
One petaflop is capable of floating point calculation 1,000 trillion times a second, and 17.1 petaflop is capable of computing 1.7100 trillion times a second.
SKT's supercomputer ranked 85th in the world's top 500 supercomputer rankings last year for the first time in Korea.
The Top 500 Foundation conducts performance aggregations twice a year and publishes the world's supercomputer performance rankings based on them.
SKT believes that the expansion of supercomputers will enable more sophisticated learning of its super-large AI model, "Aidat," than before.
"Aidat" is already applying tens of billions of parameter models to commercial services and plans to upgrade it to a model that is more than twice the size of the current one through this expansion of computing performance.
With this expansion of supercomputer, it has powerful computing power to process a wider range of data faster and more accurately.
SKT is planning to expand its super-large AI versatility indefinitely based on its super-large AI R&D technology and super-computing advancement that have been internalized over the years. It is already providing services in conjunction with Korea's leading media platforms such as FLO, TMAP, and Wave through A-Dot.
"Through the expansion of the supercomputer, A-Dot will be able to learn more sophisticatedly than before, which will play a major role in improving the flow of conversations with people and the completeness of answers," said Kim Young-joon, in charge of SKT A. Promotion Team. "We will continue to make efforts to lead AI technology leadership through aggressive R&D investment, infrastructure expansion, and talent recruitment."
