45nm four core of the first single wave HPC promotes life research

A few days ago, with 102 nodes of the Wave shuttle high-performance cluster settled in Beijing http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/18182.html "> Life Sciences Institute, The system uses the latest 45 nm process of the Intel four core dual processor, is the 45 nm four-core platform in China's first large-scale application, called "45 nm China first." Its 6.5 trillion times floating point operation ability, is also created the Domestic Life research field high performance computation new peak, will promote the Chinese life science in the Biological Macromolecules International Frontier Research breakthrough, accelerates our country in the medicine research and the development process.

The Beijing Institute of Life Sciences is jointly prepared by 8 ministries, such as the Ministry of Science and Technology, the NDRC, the Ministry of Education and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as the important strategic layout of the Chinese government in the development of life science and technology, has been committed to the study of Biological Macromolecules, currently published in the "Science In the field of life science and technology, the number of papers in the top international journals ranked first in the country. It is reported that the current research on biological macromolecules, from the atomic level to grasp the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules and the relationship between biological functions, and on this basis to carry out drug design, is the international biomedical research in recent years the forefront of the subject, but also one of the important research direction. Macromolecule is the most complex molecule in the natural material structure, a biological macromolecule and its environment system often consists of tens of thousands of to hundreds of thousands of atoms, as the scale and precision of the simulation increases, the performance of High-performance computing systems is higher, which will further accelerate the progress of scientific research.

Wave combined with years of experience in the field of life science and technology, the success of high-performance computer projects to provide a set of high-performance cluster solution-based on the Linux operating system, with 102 45 nm four-core wave shuttle system, peak computing capacity of up to 6.5 trillion times, become China's Life research field calculation peak. At the same time, using the 45 nano-technology wave shuttle High-performance platform, more than 65 NM platform, performance increased by more than 20%, while power savings of 30%, to achieve the calculation of density and power consumption of the perfect combination of energy saving.

"The system is doing very well at this stage," the head of the lab said in a note of joy when talking about the wave of the shuttle, "now, using hundreds of nodes for parallel computing can improve the simulation efficiency by dozens of times times." In the past, the use of stand-alone workstations, a few days to complete the experimental simulation, now a few hours can be, greatly improve the progress of our research. ”

    to transform the latest technology into application is always the market advantage of the tide. From the domestic four nuclear first single to 45 nm the first single, the tide continues to strengthen in the four nuclear market leader position. Prior to this, China, South, Dayang and other well-known domestic research institutions have adopted a wave shuttle platform. The successful cooperation with the Beijing Institute of Life Sciences has not only revealed the strong technical research and development strength in the field of High-performance computing, but also strengthened the dominance of the wave in the field of higher education and scientific research.