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| The B200 supercomputing system delivers performance of up to 1.5 ExaFLOPs FP8, equivalent to 1.5 quintillion calculations per second. (Photo: nhandan.vn) |
Hanoi (VNA) – The Military Industry and Telecommunications Group (Viettel) has officially brought into operation the first NVIDIA DGX B200 supercomputing system owned by Vietnam.
The platform represents the world’s most advanced high-performance computing infrastructure, designed to support research and development of next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) models.
The Viettel Artificial Intelligence and Data Services Centre (Viettel AI) is the unit directly operating the supercomputer and leading the development of AI models tailored to Vietnam.
The B200 supercomputing system delivers performance of up to 1.5 ExaFLOPs FP8, equivalent to 1.5 quintillion calculations per second. It is among NVIDIA’s most advanced high-performance AI systems, drawing strong interest and early orders from major technology firms and governments worldwide due to its role as critical infrastructure determining AI development capacity.
Viettel’s investment in and deployment of the B200 system comes as Politburo Resolution No. 57/TW-NQ, dated December 22, 2024, on breakthroughs in science and technology development, innovation development and national digital transformation, and underscores the need to master strategic national technologies, including AI. As the country’s core technology group, Viettel has rolled out the most advanced high-performance computing infrastructure to meet large-scale AI development needs in Vietnam, enabling the establishment and operation of core domestic AI infrastructure.
Built on this platform, AI systems can be developed and deployed in a safe and reliable manner, in compliance with Vietnamese law and aligned with domestic realities.
Nguyen Manh Quy, Director of Viettel AI, said that bringing the B200 system into operation is not only an investment in computing infrastructure, but a strategic step towards building sovereign and trustworthy AI capabilities for Vietnam. The platform will enable Viettel to develop AI technologies serving Vietnamese people and businesses, while supporting the Government in advancing digital transformation in a safe, effective and sustainable manner, he added.
Viettel AI has begun training and optimising large Vietnamese-language models (LLMs) for national digital transformation programmes, alongside the development of multimodal models integrating text, images, audio and video, as well as domain-specific generative AI models.
The DGX B200 belongs to NVIDIA’s Blackwell generation, currently the world’s leading GPU architecture, offering highly efficient processing for complex computing tasks and large AI models. The platform is expected to be selected by major technology groups such as OpenAI, Meta, Amazon and Tesla for large-scale AI training and deployment. Compared with the previous generation, the B200 delivers threefold higher training performance and up to 15 times faster inference.
Deployed at the Viettel Hoa Lac Technical Centre, the first B200 supercomputing system owned by Vietnam will serve as Viettel’s core AI infrastructure and a long-term strategic computing platform. Based on this, Viettel is ready to share its computing capacity with partners, research institutes and Vietnamese enterprises, contributing to the development of a self-reliant, safe and sustainable domestic AI ecosystem./.
