Industry: the application field of supercomputing in China is gradually broadened
2021-11-22
During the 13th Five Year Plan period, China's scientific and technological undertakings accelerated development, The innovation capability has been greatly improved, and a number of major scientific and technological achievements have been made in the basic frontier, strategic high technology, people's Livelihood Science and technology, which has injected innovation momentum into high-quality development. "During the 13th Five Year Plan period, China deeply implemented the innovation driven development strategy and insisted on strengthening basic research, applied basic research and key core technology research." on October 21, Wang Zhigang, Minister of science and technology, said at the press conference of the state information office that China continued to maintain its advantages in supercomputing. Among the top 500 supercomputers in the world, the number of supercomputers in China accounts for 45%. Based on the development of E-class prototype, China is marching towards E-class supercomputers. Recently, Chen Runsheng, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and chairman of China intelligent computing industry alliance, said at the third China Super Computing Conference that driven by big data, profound paradigm changes are taking place in various fields, and big data is bound to bring a large amount of information. At the same time, it also requires large computing power to mine new knowledge brought by big data. Therefore, computational power meets the needs of the development of human society and the innovation and reform of China's economic development. Zhang Yunquan, a researcher at the Institute of computing technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and executive director of China intelligent computing industry alliance, said in an interview with reporters that supercomputing is gradually becoming an important aspect of a country's core competitiveness of scientific and technological innovation, a powerful engine to promote national security and innovation development, and to solve national security, technological innovation A series of major challenging issues such as economic development and social progress play an irreplaceable role. In fact, with the improvement of computing power, supercomputing has been seen everywhere in people's work and life, whether it is space exploration, disaster prediction, artificial intelligence, unmanned driving, etc. According to Zhang Yunquan, with the popularization of supercomputing technology and a significant reduction in cost, its application fields have also extended from the fields of nuclear weapon development, information security and high-temperature scientific computing with national strategic significance to some fields of the broader national economy. For example, the weather forecast is generated by the supercomputer. Because the activities of the atmosphere are very complex, it is necessary to collect millions of parameters from tens of thousands of weather stations across the country for very complex calculations in order to make accurate and high forecasts, which can only be completed by using supercomputing. With the mysterious veil of supercomputing being lifted layer by layer, supercomputing has become a new choice for more popular commercial customers. Zhang Yunquan pointed out that the traditional supercomputer is exclusive and unwilling to support virtualization because it will lose performance. However, the cloud computing architecture is different. It can be virtualized, schedule all resources uniformly, and change the system configuration at any time. "With the development of technology, supercomputing and container cloud are integrating innovation, and high-performance cloud has become a new product service." Wu Di, general manager of Beijing Super cloud computing Co., Ltd., said in an interview with reporters that the domestic supercomputing market can be roughly divided into three categories: cutting-edge supercomputing, general supercomputing and industry supercomputing. Among them, the demand market served by the National Supercomputing Center is mainly the cutting-edge supercomputing market. The service object is national scientific research projects, with the focus on producing results. The target market of Beijing Super cloud computing center is general super computing, which is mainly for applications below 10000 cores (especially below 1000 cores), and provides super cloud computing services on demand for a large number of users with different needs. "For Beijing supercomputing, our goal is to realize the commercial operation of supercomputing, realize the profit of supercomputing business, feed back the investment in the construction of the center, and realize the positive cycle of self-sufficiency and flexible extension," Wu Di said. Chen Jian, chairman of Beijing Parallel Technology Co., Ltd., told reporters that the HPC Top100 ranking list in recent 20 years shows the enhancement of China's national strength, economic prosperity and the rapid improvement of corresponding computing power. However, the problem of how to make users use supercomputing conveniently and make users can afford supercomputing remains to be solved. "The success of supercomputing commercialization is that when users need to calculate, they can provide computing power in the form of commercialization endlessly." when talking about supercomputing commercialization, Chen Jian said that the most important thing of supercomputing commercialization is not only to make profits, but also to take into account sustainable development and ensure the healthy ecology of the market. (outlook new era)
Edit：Ming Wu Responsible editor：Haoxuan Qi
Source：people.cn
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