Viettel launches Vietnam’s first Nvidia DGX B200 supercomputer for AI development
VOV.VN - Vietnam’s Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel) said it has put into operation the country’s first Nvidia DGX B200 supercomputer system, aiming to strengthen domestic capacity for artificial intelligence research and development.
The system, installed at Viettel’s technical centre in Hoa Lac, Hanoi, is operated by Viettel AI, the group’s data and artificial intelligence services arm, and will be used to train and deploy next-generation AI models.
The DGX B200 is based on Nvidia’s Blackwell GPU architecture and is equipped with eight Blackwell GPUs, 1.4 terabytes of GPU memory and memory bandwidth of 64 terabytes per second. The military run telecom group said the system can deliver up to 1.5 exaFLOPs of FP8 performance, or about 1.5 quintillion calculations per second.
Compared with the previous generation, the B200 offers three times higher training performance and up to 15 times faster inference, according to Viettel.
The Blackwell-based platform is being adopted by global technology companies including OpenAI, Meta, Amazon and Tesla, but access remains limited in many markets due to export controls and supply constraints.
Nguyen Manh Quy, chief executive of Viettel AI, said the deployment is a strategic step toward building sovereign and trusted AI capability for Vietnam.
On this platform, Viettel can develop AI technologies that serve Vietnamese users and businesses, and support the government in advancing safe and sustainable digital transformation, Quy said.
According to the telecom giant, the investment aligns with Vietnam’s Politburo Resolution No. 57, which calls for mastery of strategic national technologies, including artificial intelligence.
Viettel AI has begun training Vietnamese large language models and developing multimodal models combining text, images, audio and video, as well as sector-specific generative AI applications.
Vietnam already hosts several high-performance computing systems, including AI factories operated by FPT using Nvidia H200 chips. However, the DGX B200 uses Nvidia’s newer Blackwell architecture designed for large-scale AI workloads.
Viettel said it is open to sharing computing capacity with domestic research institutes, universities and enterprises to help develop Vietnam’s AI ecosystem.
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