IT Cen CTS said on the 14th that it has completed the introduction of a graphics processing unit (GPU) cluster platform and system construction for a supercomputer project aimed at developing the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute's virtual reactor platform (V-SMR) for small modular reactors (SMRs).
The project is part of the government-led Global Top Strategic Research Group initiative. It involves three government-funded research institutes, including the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, and the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute. The initiative is scheduled to be pursued in stages through 2029.
This supercomputer construction project was carried out to support high-reliability reactor simulation, which is at the core of SMRs, using a GPU cluster based on Nvidia's H200 data center GPU product. Given the nature of the reactor simulation environment, which requires large-scale parallel computation, the key challenge was to provide not just simple GPU servers but a complete high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure as an integrated solution, including high-speed networks, storage, management servers, job schedulers, and monitoring systems.
IT Cen CTS (031820) carried out these high-difficulty integrated construction requirements, contributing to enabling the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute to secure an optimal simulation foundation for developing high-reliability reactor analysis and rapid analysis technologies. Furthermore, the company is credited with laying a technological foundation to raise Korea's global export competitiveness in SMRs by another notch through future SMR design verification and safety assessment. In addition, it designed and built an optimal AI infrastructure management environment capable of stably handling the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute's large-scale research workloads.
"Based on proven infrastructure technology and our own operating platform, we will create a standard for AI infrastructure services that domestic companies and public institutions can trust and rely on the most," said Nam Young-soo, vice president of IT Cen CTS.
