How far are supercomputing from us? Visit the Ji'nan Center for Supercomputing
Xinhua network Shandong channel 26 (reporter Chen Hao) the first of our country's first use of independent processors and system software to build millions of supercomputers "Shen Wei blue light" has been put into operation in Ji'nan for 4 months. Recently, the reporter approached the National Supercomputing Center of Ji'nan and made close contact with it.
in the National Supercomputing Center of Ji'nan, the reporter saw the famous supercomputer named "Shen Wei Blu ray". The black cabinet is as high as two meters, and the 11 cabinet is oval shaped, covering an area of 60 square meters. In the real-time monitoring system, the reporter saw that at that time 20 topics of computing work is running, 72.19% of the CPU resources are in a busy state.
Pan Jingshan, the assistant director of the national super computing Ji'nan center, told reporters that the performance of "Shen Wei blue light" peak performance reached 1070 trillion floating-point operations / seconds, the overall level of the system was in the advanced ranks of the world, and the Shandong Academy of Sciences was in charge of operation. In the past four months, a series of major projects have been carried out, and the utilization rate of resources is controlled at around 72%.
computing speed of tens of thousands per second, equivalent to 200 thousand personal computers. How far is this supercomputing power from our life? The answer given by Pan Jingshan is: not far away, and it will be even closer in the future.
"banks and Internet search engines are supported by supercomputers. We go to banks to access and retrieve information on the Internet, and in fact they are using supercomputer services." According to Pan Jingshan, the National Supercomputing Center of Ji'nan has worked with meteorological, transportation and other departments, which are closely related to people's daily life. Taking the weather forecast as an example, using the "Shen Wei blue light" to predict the weather, the prediction ability is equivalent to 5000 times that of the past, and the accuracy and accuracy are higher. In the same district, the temperature and wind force in four corners of the southeast and Northwest can be predicted. The current weather forecast is updated in two hours, and the supercomputer can be updated more than ten minutes in a more accurate way. According to him, the center is currently cooperating with the Shandong Meteorological Bureau, and the weather forecast can be realized by super computer in March.
in the field of transportation, the center is researching and developing large-scale traffic intelligent simulation system. Pan Jingshan said, "we have a traffic monitoring data input system for one year, combined with real time monitoring data, we can predict the daily traffic conditions, provide a basis for alleviating urban traffic pressure, and also provide reference for people's driving travel."
in addition, supercomputers will play a new role in food breeding, new drug development and other areas related to people's livelihood. "The development cycle of breeding and new drugs is very long, sometimes it takes ten years or even twenty years." "We can use supercomputers to simulate these long cycles of experiments in the future and reduce 20 years to a year, which saves a lot of time," Pan Jingshan said. Maybe in a few years, we can eat the improved grain and vegetables after supercomputing. "