China's First 100,000-Card Domestic AI Super-Cluster Goes Live, and the National Compute Grid Takes Shape

China's First 100,000-Card Domestic AI Super-Cluster Goes Live, and the National Compute Grid Takes Shape

China hit a new compute-infrastructure milestone in August when its first fully domestic 100,000-card AI super-cluster entered service at the Zhengzhou core node of the National Supercomputing Internet. Peak compute capacity per second is comparable to two centuries of continuous human calculation, and the cluster is already supporting more than 300 workloads across twenty-six domains from new materials to drug discovery. The deployment moves Ch…