December 10, 2025 - National Taiwan University (NTU) claimed the championship title at the SC25 Student Cluster Competition (SCC), marking a major milestone for Taiwan in high-performance computing (HPC) and AI. GIGABYTE Technology Group’s subsidiary, Giga Computing, served as the main technical support partner for NTU, providing advanced server platforms equipped with the latest CPUs, GPUs, and high-performance storage technology. The students’ teamwork and abilities led to the first-place finish after the 48-hour challenge wrapped up.

NTU Defeats Top Universities Worldwide, Demonstrating AI and HPC Integration Capabilities

Since its launch in 2007, SCC has become one of the most prestigious student supercomputing competitions globally. This year’s finals featured eight teams from the United States, Switzerland, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom, including Clemson University, ETH Zürich, Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, Texas A&M University, UC San Diego, and Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS).

The competition ran from November 17–19, 2025, challenging participants to complete complex HPC and AI tasks under strict energy constraints. These included computational benchmarks, scientific applications, and projects requiring advanced optimization. NTU impressed judges with exceptional system architecture design, performance tuning, and AI/HPC workload optimization—ultimately clinching the championship in its first year of participation.

Giga Computing Provides Key Technical Support and Hardware

With support from the National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) under National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs), Giga Computing partnered with NTU to deliver cutting-edge infrastructure. The team deployed four GIGABYTE G494-ZB4-AAP2 GPU servers, featuring:

This seamless integration enabled NTU to excel in high-density computing, generative AI inference, distributed HPC tasks, and I/O-intensive workloads—all within strict power and space limitations.

Academia, Industry, and Research Join Forces to Set a New Benchmark for HPC Talent Development

Jun-Yi Li, NTU Team Director, shared: “This was NTU’s first time participating in the SC student cluster competition and the students won the championship. This proves that Taiwanese students possess world-class talent in HPC and AI. This experience challenged students’ problem solving skills and system tuning abilities in an extreme environment. We would also like to express our gratitude to industry partners that provided the cutting-edge technology, giving the students the closest possible experience to real supercomputing center conditions.”

Industry leaders echoed this sentiment, emphasizing the importance of collaboration and technology in driving innovation:

Zhi-Huang Xiao, Deputy Director at NCHC, stated: “At SCC25, the NTU team’s excellent performance fully showcases the long-term achievements of NCHC in promoting domestic AI/HPC education. We are dedicated to giving student research teams access to best-in-class computing resources and gaining experience through hands-on competitions. In the future, NCHC will continue to act as a bridge connecting industry resources to create a new era of HPC and AI professionals with a global perspective.”

Dr. Ming-Jiang Chen, Vice President at Giga Computing, commented: “When we saw the NTU team, in their first SCC competition, win the SCC championship, we were overwhelmed and couldn’t be prouder. Giga Computing not only provides high performance server platforms, but also in-depth system optimization and technical support. This is a solid example of the value we place in industry-academia collaboration. In the future, we will continue to use technology to empower student research teams to step onto the world stage and display Taiwan’s profound strength in server system integration.”

Jian-Cheng Lin, AMD Taiwan, added: “The NTU team’s performance was excellent, and they have fully proven the advantages of using open source platforms to complete complex HPC and AI workloads. AMD EPYC processors, combined with the ROCm open software platform, provide a flexible and high-performance computing foundation that enables researchers to accelerate innovation and efficiently handle these demanding tasks. AMD will continue to deepen its connection with the Taiwanese academic community; by leveraging the foremost computing technology, we accelerate scientific breakthroughs and cultivate globally competitive talent.”

Wei-Liang Tseng, Micron, noted: “In the current data-driven era of AI and HPC, memory bandwidth and latency have a direct impact on overall system performance. The NTU team was able to maintain stable and efficient performance across multiple workloads, with Micron DDR5 memory technology playing a key role. We will continue to push advanced memory innovation, and through close cooperation with academic circles, we will cultivate first-class talent in Taiwan that is able to master next-gen computing architectures.”

Jin-Feng Ni, Solidigm Asia Pacific stated: “Modern AI and scientific computing applications place extremely high demands on storage system I/O performance. The NTU team has demonstrated how to leverage PCIe 5.0 SSD technology to handle massive amounts of data. Solidigm is committed to delivering enterprise-grade storage solutions that support workloads from the edge to the data center. We are honored to participate in cultivating HPC talent in Taiwan and will continue investing in advanced storage technology research to drive the development of data science.”

Looking Ahead

Giga Computing will continue to support Taiwanese student research teams through advanced server platforms, system tuning, and technical training, working with global technology partners to foster the next generation of talent that works with HPC and AI.

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