Milestones
1991
1993
The NCHC’s Hsinchu
headquarters became
operational
The Executive Yuan
approved the proposal
for the establishment of
the NCHC
2002
2003
2005
The NCHC was placed
under Taiwan’s National
Applied Research
Laboratories (NARLabs)
The NCHC accepted the
Executive Yuan’s “Challenge
2008” mandate to develop
and maintain the TWAREN
R&D network
2008
2010
2011
2013
Hsinchu Headquarters
The NCHC established
a branch office in the
Central Taiwan (i.e.
Taichung) Science Park
No. 7, R&D 6th Rd., Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu City, Taiwan, R.O.C. 30076
The NCHC deployed the
“Windrider” (a.k.a. ALPUS
system) supercomputer,
capable of 177 TFlops
computational capacity
TEL：886-3-5776085、 FAX：886-3-5776082
Taichung Branch
No. 22, Keyuan Rd., Central Taiwan Science Park, Taichung City, Taiwan, R.O.C. 40763
The NCHC established
a branch office in the
Southern Taiwan (i.e.
Tainan) Science Park
TEL：886-4-24620202、 FAX：886-4-24627373
The NCHC founded the
Alliance of Cloud
Computing Technologies
and Applications (ACCTA)
The NCHC planed the
establishment of a
new 100G academic
research network
backbone
Tainan Branch
No. 28, Nan-Ke 3rd Rd., Hsin-Shi Dist., Tainan City, Taiwan, R.O.C. 74147
TEL: 886-6-5050940 FAX: 886-6-5050945
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Better
HPC
Better
Living
10G
10G*2
1G*4
The National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC), founded in 1991, is Taiwan’s only national-level
supercomputing center. The NCHC possesses a large computing and networking platform facilities for use by domestic
ASCC
2.5G
NCCU
NIU
2.5G
2.5G
NCNU
10G*2
NDHU
10G*2
CCU
1G
10G
NCKU
2.5G
Missions
10G
Hsinchu
10G
Taichung
10G
10G
2.5G*2
10G*2
10G
10G
2.5G
Global Malware Attack Distribution
2.5G
10G
Taipei
10G
10G
NCHC
NCHC
NTU
10G
NCU
NCTU
NTHU
1G
10G
NTTU
Tainan
10G
NSYSU
• To provide a professional research environment as well as technical services
in HPC, big data, and networking applications
academia and the general public. The NCHC plays a leading role in Taiwan’s cloud technology services by integrating
• To integrate R&D and cloud services for development of HPC and big data applications
high performance computing (HPC), storage, and networking to provide cloud services in storage, big data analysis, and
• To enable domestic and international technology exchange and the promotion of HPC, big data,
scientific and engineering simulation.
The goal of the NCHC is to become an internationally renowned HPC center that promotes scientific discovery and
technological innovation. Since its inception, the NCHC has been dedicated to strengthening Taiwan’s HPC and
networking infrastructure. The NCHC has planned and implemented pilot research programs in HPC, cloud computing, as
well as big data processing methods and applications. The NCHC provides professional technologies and platform
services to academia, government, and industry, and helps to cultivate domestic talent in HPC-related fields.
In order to effectively support Taiwan’s technology research, the NCHC constructed technology R&D platforms to
support domestic and foreign R&D teams in developing HPC and big data applications, which cover engineering and
and networking applications
• Provided 200 TFlops of computing capacity for over 710 domestic projects in the fields of HPC, engineering,
Technologies
Facilities
• High performance computing
• HPC supercomputers
• Big data computing
• The TaiWan Advanced Research and Education Network (TWAREN)
• Networking and information security
• Off-site storage, replication, and archiving facilities at its Hsinchu,
• Cloud integration technology
Achievements
Taichung, and Tainan branches
and scientific research
• Planned and constructed a next-generation 100 Gbps backbone network with 40 Gbps links to 13 regional network
centers; maintained the TWAREN network and provided a robust high-speed networking service for academic
research and application development
• Provided over 5 PB cloud storage for over 30 different databases (e.g. brain science, gene identification, disaster
prevention, earth science, climate change, and the humanities)
• Developed Taiwan’s first malware knowledge database to defend TWAREN against malware threats
science, environmental and disaster prevention, biomedicine, and digital cultural content creation. The NCHC hopes to
• Constructed the Formosa series cluster supercomputers and service system
achieve the goal of becoming an HPC center of international caliber and a base for HPC applications and R&D
• Provided cloud services to the 3D Drosophila Brain Neural Image Database, the Environmental and Earth Science
collaborations within the Pacific Rim region.
Observation Database, the Disaster Information Management Database, and the Render Farm
• Facilitated the development of cloud technologies including cloud middleware