National Center for High Performance Computing, NARLabs
National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC), founded in 1991, is Taiwan's only national-level supercomputing center. The NCHC plays a leading role in cloud technology that possesses a large computing, storage, networking and platform integration, providing the domestic users with the Could Integration Service of High Performance Computing (HPC), high quality networking, high efficiency storage, big data analysis and scientific 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 science, environmental and disaster prevention, biomedicine, and digital cultural content creation, aiming to become a first-rate High-performance Computing Center.
AIOT for Urban Science
Solution Description
National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) cooperates with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Argonne National Laboratory to promote the application of smart metropolis with high-speed computers and AI Deep Learning to solve congestion problems in main cities.
The project further extends to cooperating with National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) and TungHai University (THU), we successfully applied the AOT urban monitoring system and sensor analysis to environmental monitoring. In practice, the system was applied to the cooperation of the Taichung City Government and the Hsinchu City Government to promote the cloud IoT of smart cities to solve the issues of monitoring data convergence and big data application in urban data governance.
The results of the first phase of this project including the construction and application of the AOT monitoring system, real-time environmental monitoring in Taichung City, and traffic congestion analysis in the Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP). The analysis of the traffic congestion in the CTSP is based on the intersection information of CTSP as the experimental environment and using MIT's traffic flow simulation system, and the traffic flows analysis system jointly developed by NCHC and Taiwan Yuan Ze University. These two systems automatically analyze the traffic flow at intersections and learn how to optimize traffic signal allocation to alleviate traffic congestion during peak time.