2014 High Performance Computing user conference held in Beijing

September 26, 2014 high-performance Computing User conference held in Beijing, nearly thousands of domestic and foreign high-performance computing research and application experts and user representatives to the meeting. The conference put forward the "HPC PLUS" concept that high-performance computing is connecting the world, changing lives, and demonstrating the latest developments in major scientific projects such as the world's largest radio telescope Array Ska project, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC-AR5, the super large-scale application of Tianhe second, Share the trend of high performance computing applications in the fields of deep learning, individual medicine and brain science.

At present, in addition to the field of scientific research, high-performance computing is showing a strong ductility, and the financial, Internet, industrial design, cultural creativity and other industries have become more and more closely intertwined. At the same time, the trend of cross integration between high performance computing and cloud computing and large data is becoming more and more obvious, which has become one of the three driving forces for the development of global information industry.

The organizers of the Conference, the Asian Association of Wang Endong (ASC) and the Wave group's chief scientist, said that the growing integration of high-performance computing into social life has become a major trend in the profound changes in people's daily lives, which is the focus of this session of the Congress focused on the "HPC PLUS" concept. At the same time, high performance computing and the close relationship between all walks of life, but also bring the concept of high-performance computing development of the transformation, application will become the future of global High-performance computing the core of the development.

Wang Endong, chief scientist of Wave Group

Earl Joseph, vice President of IDC, also pointed out in his report that applications would be a major bottleneck in the future development of high-performance computing, and that most users still lacked experience in the use of concurrent software, and that a large number of applications required significant redesign. Earl Joseph also mentioned that large data combined with high-performance computing is creating new solutions in new areas, which has become a trend. High-performance computing, which is used to manage large infrastructure and data analysis, is expected to become two hot spots for future development.

Earl Joseph, vice President of IDC

With the computing capacity of Exascale super computer from the discussion into the development phase, the global High-performance computing will be from the "P-era" (petajoules) into the "E-era" (Exascale), such a large supercomputer for large-scale parallel computing applications will never be more intense demand. According to the data, the "global positive atmospheric shallow water wave model" running on Tianhe No. Second has reached 1.7 million. However, applications of this scale remain "small applications" on an AI-class supercomputer that may have tens of millions of computing cores. Therefore, in the upcoming "E-era", how to make large machines in large science, large projects to play its due value, and better solve the major problems faced by mankind, has become the global High Performance computing field of focus of discussion.

Ska, head of computing hardware and storage, John Bancroft of the Oakland University of Technology, believes that high-performance computing has become an indispensable tool in the research of large scientific engineering. At present, Ska has become the world's largest "Big data" project, the amount of data collected per second is greater than 12Tb, equivalent to the end of 2013 China's Internet international export bandwidth of 3.5 times times, need to use about 100 Tianhe second to complete such a scale of data processing.

Ska, head of computing hardware and storage, John Bancroft of Oakland University of Technology

For the future development of High-performance Computing, Wang Endong that the application of the core of international exchange and cooperation, will become the future of the global High-performance Computing industry trends, research institutes, government agencies and users will be deeply involved. Therefore, high performance computing users the General Assembly has always used "application-oriented" as the purpose of the General Assembly, with the aim of making the General Assembly an "application conference" in which each participant will be able to learn from the General Assembly the innovations in the traditional field of High-performance computing, the application in emerging areas, and the need for high-performance Thus driving high-performance computing in all walks of life to get faster and better applications. At the same time, talent training is also the key factor to promote the continuous development of high-performance computing, we must increase investment in this area.

It is understood that the objective of this session is to better promote the exchange of technology and application innovation at home and abroad, the establishment of the main forum and the five Oita Forum, invited at home and abroad, astronomy, earth, materials, life, meteorology, physics, chemistry, the Internet, engineering simulation and many other fields of expertise, Explore how to use high-performance computing to explore more scientific potential to make human life better.