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Wuhan activates 1,024-NPU Ascend 950DT SuperPoD cluster in one month

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A new SuperPoD cluster featuring 1,024 Ascend 950DT NPUs has been activated in Wuhan. This liquid-cooled system, capable of 1 EFLOPS of FP8 compute and equipped with 256TB of unified memory, was brought online in just one month. The cluster represents a significant deployment of Huawei's AI hardware capabilities. AI

IMPACT Accelerates AI development and deployment with significant on-demand compute power.

RANK_REASON Deployment of a large-scale AI computing cluster. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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Wuhan activates 1,024-NPU Ascend 950DT SuperPoD cluster in one month

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  1. Pandaily TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] (Pandaily) ·

    First Ascend 950DT 1,024-NPU SuperPoD Cluster Goes Live in Wuhan, Built in One Month

    A 1,024-NPU Ascend 950DT liquid-cooled SuperPoD went live in Wuhan on October 28, offering 1 EFLOPS of FP8 compute and 256TB of unified memory. It took one month from start to power-on.

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