What is a supercomputer?

Supercomputers usually refer to computers that are composed of hundreds, thousands or even more processors (computers) and can calculate large and complex tasks that ordinary PCs and servers cannot complete.

In order to help everyone better understand the computing speed of supercomputers, we compare the computing speed of ordinary computers to the walking speed of a person, then the supercomputer reaches the speed of a rocket.

Under the premise of such computing speed, people can predict and explain natural phenomena that were previously impossible to experiment through numerical simulation.

With the rapid development of supercomputer computing speed, it is also increasingly used in industry, scientific research and academic fields.

At this stage, our country has 22 supercomputers (19 in mainland China, 1 in Hong Kong, and 2 in Taiwan), ranking fifth in the world. It leads the world in terms of ownership and computing speed, but in terms of the application of supercomputers

In terms of fields, there is still a big gap between us and developed countries such as the United States and Germany.

How to use supercomputers to serve our industry, scientific research and academic fields has become an important topic for our future research and development.

Supercomputer is the embodiment of a country's scientific research strength, which is of great significance to national security, economic and social development.

The development of our country's supercomputers and their applications has provided a solid foundation and guarantee for our country to become a technological power.

Supercomputer technology Supercomputer technology is no longer a new topic. IBM in the United States, NEC in Japan, and Sugon in China have all launched their own supercomputers. However, in comparison, academicians of the two academies of the United States and "one of the world's super turbine blade computers"

The supercomputer developed by the expert team headed by "father" Dr. Chen Shiqing still has absolute advantages after returning to the motherland.

The new generation of supercomputers adopts a turbine design. Each blade is a server, which can work together and can be increased or decreased at any time according to application needs.

The computing power of a single cabinet can reach 46.08 trillion operations per second. Theoretically, the floating point operation speed of the collaborative high-performance supercomputer is 100 trillion operations per second. The actual high-performance computing speed test efficiency is as high as 84.35%, ranking among

One of the world's most efficient supercomputers.

Through advanced architecture and design, it achieves the separation of storage and computing, ensuring that user data and information are not affected in any way during software system updates or CPU upgrades, ensuring the security of stored information, and truly achieving long-term, efficient, and

Reliable computing and easy upgrade and maintenance advantages.

Applications of Supercomputers Supercomputers are computers with the most powerful functions, fastest computing speed, and largest storage capacity. They are mostly used in national high-tech fields and cutting-edge technology research. They are an important symbol of the country's scientific and technological development level and comprehensive national strength.

As an element of high-tech development, supercomputers have long become a competitive tool for the economy and national defense of countries around the world.

After decades of unremitting efforts by our country's scientific and technological workers, our country's high-performance computer research and development level has improved significantly, becoming the third largest high-performance computer development and production country after the United States and Japan.

The National 863 Software Professional Incubator (Kunming) base actively strengthens cooperation with the supercomputing core technology and scientist team led by Dr. Chen Shiqing, an academician of the National Academy of Engineering, an academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the father of the world's super turbine blade computer, and plans to introduce its own

Supercomputers with world-leading technology and solutions in related industries with completely independent intellectual property rights use the powerful scientific computing, transaction processing and information service capabilities of supercomputers, and use their powerful engines or platforms to provide information services to integrate resources and collaborate.

Assignments to solve the complex calculation needs of pollution remediation such as algorithms, equations, modeling, and simulation.

At the Lawrence Limon National Laboratory in the United States, the Blue Gene/L designed by IBM recorded a peak computing speed of 136.8 megabytes per second during testing and then returned to its highest point.

IBM says that during a complete process, the system should have twice the power, with a peak performance of more than 360 teraflops.

Researchers from Germany and the United States publish a list of the 500 most powerful computers twice a year.

The most recent list appeared at the International Supercomputing Conference in Heidelberg, Germany.

These high-end computers are made from exotic manufacturing methods rather than from standard components.

Despite this, computers can reach extremely high speeds.

Over the past two years, most of the computers near the top 500 list have consisted of ordinary computer hard drives coupled with fancy software.

But things are different now, and some systems are starting to determine these rankings.

For example, the current Champion Blue Gene/L is a specially designed system that incorporates an unprecedented 65,536 personal processors and an upgradeable template design.

This system is not only more powerful than traditional systems but also more compact to avoid power shortages.

The blue gene machine called BGW designed by IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center is ranked second on this 500 list, which further illustrates the correctness of this design concept.