Hubei state investor switches on 1,024-card Huawei Ascend 950DT cluster in Wuhan
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Hubei Science and Technology Investment Group, a state-backed investor, switched on a computing cluster built on Huawei's Ascend 950DT 1,024-card SuperPoD in Wuhan on October 28, 2026, at a Huawei AI conference for Hubei province.
Pandaily reports the cluster took one month from kickoff to power-on and delivers 1 EFLOPS of FP8 compute with 256TB of unified memory. The cluster is aimed at training large models and running AI agent inference for Hubei developers and companies, and the investor says it will serve local demand.
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AIA computing cluster built on Huawei's Ascend 950DT 1,024-card SuperPoD was switched on in Wuhan on October 28, at a Huawei AI conference for Hubei province. The cluster, funded by state-backed Hubei Science and Technology Investment Group, took one month from kickoff to power-on and delivers 1 EFLOPS of FP8 compute with 256TB of unified memory. It is aimed at training large models and running AI agent inference for Hubei developers and companies.
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