source: the Ji'nan daily
7 years ago, the first pure domestic supercomputing Shen Wei blue light home Ji'nan Shen Wei blue light computing power per second Tens of billions of times
next month, the magic E level prototype will be one billion billion times per second
3 years later, E computers in Ji'nan are expected to be "born" E computer computing power per second
the internal
supercomputer, which sounds mysterious and distant, is not far from the Jinan. China's first super domestic super computer, "Shen Wei" series of big brother "Shen Wei Blu ray" 7 years ago in Ji'nan "settle down". Next month, the E level prototype will also fall in the National Supercomputing Ji'nan center, which means Ji'nan is expected to get the next "crown" of the supercomputing world!
or the first big scientific device in the province
to make the final preparation for the landing of the E grade prototype, Pan Jingshan and his colleagues. It's very busy. Pan Jingshan, deputy director of the National Supercomputing Center of Ji'nan, accepted the interview on the same day in July 5th. He immediately rushed to the high-speed rail station to prepare for a business trip. According to the plan, around August 20th, the E class prototype of Shen Wei will be installed.
reporter learned that E computer is the world's recognized supercomputer world's next "crown", all countries are competing for research and development. As E super computing has 100 billion times computing speed, the performance is 8 times higher than that of the world's fastest supercomputer. However, it takes about 3 years to develop from the E class to the E computer.
if the E computer is successful, it will have 100 billion floating point arithmetic capability per second. It is foreseeable that after 3 years in Ji'nan, Shen Wei E is expected to be "born" in Ji'nan, and the E computer will be the first major scientific device to be landed in Shandong Province, and its "Habitat" will still be the National Supercomputing Ji'nan center. The inconspicuous organization, located in the Qilu software garden, was built in 2011. It was one of the 6 million - billion supercomputer centers in the country approved by the Ministry of science and technology, with a total investment of 600 million yuan. The success of its construction marks China as the third country, following the United States and Japan, to build tens of millions of supercomputer systems with their own processors. The performance of
E prototype is significantly improved by
it is necessary to sort out the "family of Shen Wei". The first super domestic computer in China, the "big brother" of the "Shen Wei" series, came to Ji'nan in 2011. In 2016, the light of Taihu, Wuxi, became the fastest computing supercomputer in the world. In August of this year, the upgraded version of Sunway Taihu light, the E class prototype, will be completed in the National Supercomputing Center of Ji'nan.
the "Shen Wei family" is stronger than the generation. The computing power of Shen Wei Blu ray is ten million billion times per second (that is, the 15 power of 10). The figure is equivalent to 7 billion people. Each person uses a handheld computer, once a second, and requires a continuous calculation of nearly 40 hours to complete. The light of divine power and Taihu is at the top of the world's top 500 supercomputing power with the computing power of one billion billion times per second.
it is understood that China has won the "ten successive crown" of the top 500 top supercomputer list, starting with the first supercomputer throne on the top of the world. Today, the development of the E class prototype has made China take a big step in the future. Pan Jingshan introduced that the size of the E class prototype is 512 nodes, which is 4 times the performance of the existing supercomputers.
what can you do with the "total"
supercomputer that is so powerful? In July 5th, at the machine room of the National Supercomputing Ji'nan center, Li Lijun, the worker, told reporters, pointing to a large number of black large machines, "just because of the application of supercomputers. The weather forecast can accurately calculate each area. Now domestic weather forecasts can be accurate to 5 km, while the province can be accurate to 3 km.
in fact, in the past 7 years, Shen Wei Blu ray has been quietly changing our lives. Supercomputer technology is needed from weather forecast to ocean current estimation, from financial data analysis to high-end equipment manufacturing, from vehicle collision simulation to EMU tunnel intersection analysis. That is to say, when any cloud is going to rain today, it is possible to predict the Qingdao Enteromorpha when it comes to shore.
and E, a national prototype, has also taken many actions. For example, in 2016, the national supercalculation of Ji'nan center and the first marine bureau of the State Oceanic Administration were approved by the E application software project, "the development of the marine environment high performance numerical simulation application software". The two sides and the Qingdao marine science and Technology National Laboratory are working together to develop a large scale and scalable and efficient ocean numerical model software and marine application software system to provide efficient services for transparent ocean, deep sea polar, blue life and other big scientific projects and national marine strategy.
supercomputing ecosystem needs to be built in
next month. What are the big actions after the Ji'nan level prototype machine landing in Ji'nan? "After the E prototype is in place, we will focus on two targets." Pan Jingshan introduced, the current information highway between Ji'nan and Qingdao has been through, Ji'nan and Qingdao can be combined together to build the Shandong super - calculation pattern. Another goal is to connect the supercomputing centers of the whole country with the lead of Shandong, and form a distributed National Supercomputing Center to build the supercomputing Internet.
in the view of Pan Jingshan Hill, the E level computer is a point, the supercalculation of the Internet is a surface, the supercomputing ecosystem is an individual, so the combination of point, surface, and body, a high-tech development strategy is formed. Supercomputing ecosystem is a worry for him. "Compared to foreign countries, there is a big gap in the ecosystem."
in the super ecosystem, we compare with a foreign country, like a baby and an adult. After all, our own research and development of CPU has been a few years. Pan Jingshan said, "it is suggested that Shandong can build an ecology based on the domestic CPU, paving the way for the birth of the E class computer in 2021 and improving the application of the ecosystem. Our next task is still arduous! "