The first petajoules sub-supercomputing Center in China started yesterday

Construction of National Supercomputing Shenzhen Center started yesterday

National supercomputing Shenzhen Center effect map

Yesterday afternoon, the 11th session of the high rendezvous scene, with the Chinese Academy of Sciences deputy Dean Schli, Guangdong Provincial party committee deputy secretary, Shenzhen municipal party secretary Yupu, Guangdong Provincial party committee, Shenzhen mayor Wang, the National Science and Technology Department of High-tech Development and industrialization of the Secretary Feng Chichun, Shenzhen deputy Mayor Xu Common start lever, China's first super million sub-supercomputing center construction in Shenzhen officially launched, the total investment reached 800 million yuan, is expected to be put into operation during the high rendezvous next year. It is reported that in the world only Europe and the United States have two computing capacity more than petajoules times of the Supercomputing Center. The establishment of "National Supercomputing Shenzhen Center" will hopefully make our country's supercomputing ability ranked first in Asia, leading the world.

At the same time, "National supercomputing Shenzhen Center" is also the country in Shenzhen layout construction of the first, but also the largest single investment in the major science and technology infrastructure projects, Shenzhen is the implementation of the Pearl River Delta Reform and Development Planning outline (2008-2020) and the "Shenzhen comprehensive package reform overall plan" concrete action. With supercomputers, people will be able to experience technology change life more quickly. Provincial party committee, Shenzhen, the mayor of Wang on site, said that Shenzhen will be a high-level construction of "National supercomputing Shenzhen Center", which will play a key innovation in Shenzhen, the logo, shining City Card!

Function: Thousands of miles away tsunami damage can be "calculated"

So what changes will the National Supercomputing Center bring to the lives of ordinary people?

Jiang Jianping, dean of the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told reporters that the national Supercomputing Shenzhen Center will deploy a supercomputer with a petajoules of more than 200,000 PCs per second.

He told reporters, metaphorically, it takes more than 20 years to analyze meteorological data for 30 years, and it takes only 1 hours to use the supercomputer, and a common computer can take 1 years to complete a car crash simulation experiment, which is less than 15 minutes away. To this end, supercomputers can be widely used in new energy, materials, natural disasters, weather forecasts, geological exploration, industrial simulation, new drug development, animation production, gene sequencing, urban planning and so on.

will air pollution in the field affect Shenzhen? The impact of the tsunami in Indonesia on the Pearl River Delta can also be found by supercomputers.

Jiang Jianping also added that computing is a tool for industrial development, such as well-known led cooling problem, it needs a lot of calculation, which will bring industrial upgrading and new development. In addition to the weather forecast, there are supercomputers that can make sense of a lot of complicated data, such as building a reservoir, figuring out how much rain has rained in the region over the past 30 years, and knowing if the dam is going to be heightened.

Until today, he notes, supercomputers are still subject to U.S. export restrictions. The high performance computing infrastructure in South China is very weak, the computing resources are dispersed in various units and cannot be shared, which seriously affect the innovation of science and technology. The construction of the national Supercomputing Shenzhen Center will reverse the shortcomings of the South China Numerical computing capacity and enhance the regional innovation capability.

Planning: Invest hundreds of millions of yuan to focus on serving South China region

According to the Shenzhen municipal government secretary Li Ping, "National supercomputing Shenzhen Center" location Shenzhen Xili University City, building area of 40,000 square meters. Project total investment of about 800 million yuan, of which the state investment of 200 million yuan, the Shenzhen municipal government supporting investment of about 600 million yuan. After more than a year of preparation, the Centre has now completed geological exploration, Environmental assessment and programme design, and will be operational during the next year's high rendezvous.

National Science and Technology department Director of High-tech Development and industrialization, Feng Chichun, super computer is the most powerful computer, the fastest speed, the largest storage of a class of computers, used in national High-tech fields. At present, China's supercomputing resources are mainly concentrated in the Yangtze River and north, south China as one of China's economically developed regions, the total amount of athletics accounted for 1/6 of the country, in industry, scientific research and public services for high-performance computing demand. According to the 2008 survey results, South China's high performance computing demand peak of more than 1600 trillion times, of which Shenzhen has more than 800 trillion calculation needs, in addition to China, Macao and Hong Kong and Southeast Asia add up to more than 300 trillion of the calculation needs. However, the high performance computing infrastructure in South China is very weak, Guangdong province, the existing trillions capacity is not enough, and the calculation of resources dispersed, most of them are built by the cluster or workstation, resources can not be shared, based on large-scale computing science and engineering is still at a low level, it is difficult to improve the industrial

The completion of the "National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen" will not only reverse the shortage of computing power in South China, but also realize the sharing of computing resources, data sharing and collaborative work in South China, and reduce the cost of social computing and maintenance.

Shenzhen Executive vice Mayor Xu said in the press release, "The National supercomputing Shenzhen Center" will innovate a variety of cooperation and operation mode, will become a major public service platform for all universities, scientific research institutions and even technology enterprises.

Ranking: Powerful computing power in the forefront of the world

The reporter learned that there are now two computers in the world that have more than petajoules, one is the "cuckoo" (1.37 petajoules times) developed by IBM, and the other is "Jaguar" (1.3 petajoules) developed by Clay company. The world's most influential supercomputers include International Business Machines (IBM), Clay Corporation (Cray), Hewlett Packard (HP), Sun Computer Systems Limited (sun), etc.

The development of supercomputer in our country began in the 80 's, when it was used only for "bombs" national projects. Subsequently, the country has built eight national high-performance Computing centers, Supercomputing began to use for disaster, livelihood issues. In recent years, the rapid development of supercomputing applications in China has become the third largest supercomputing research country after America and Europe.

2004, China's independent research and development of the Dawning 4000 computer computing capacity breakthrough 10 trillion times. Recently, China's Shanghai Supercomputing Center has opened the Dawn 5000A (23 billion times), its computing capacity in the world's tenth place. The building of the "National Supercomputing Shenzhen Center" supercomputer Computing capacity for petajoules times, is expected to become the forefront of the world.

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A supercomputer, which consists of hundreds of, thousands of, or more processors, can compute large, complex computations that ordinary computers cannot accomplish. The International Super Computer Congress will release two times a year the world's fastest computing computer list, ranked 500 strong, its latest ranking is the United States has 290, the United Kingdom 46, France 25, 25 Taiwan, Japan 17 Taiwan, 17 Taiwan, India 8 Taiwan. Supercomputers are ranked as a standard by peak computing capabilities, with the US and Europe currently in a monopolistic position, with HP and IBM accounting for 500 of the 79%. China Shuguang 5000A has entered the world supercomputer's 10th place, its peak computing capacity reached 230 trillion times/sec.

(Source: Dayang Net-Guangzhou daily Author: Liu Chang, Ranxiao, Yu Chen, Shaolu, Liao Jiaming, Langen, Zhang,)