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The Sunway TaihuLight, currently the world's fastest supercomputer, is powered by China's homemade CPUs. Photo: Xinhua
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China set to launch its new supercomputer
Chinese supercomputers running on indigenous processing units are charging ahead; new model capable of 1 billion billion calculations per second
By Asia Times staff January 30, 2018 12:47 PM (UTC+8)
A prototype of China’s next generation “exascale” supercomputer capable of crunching data that’s equal to one billion billion calculations within a blink of an eye, is slated for trial later this year, the National Supercomputer Centre in Tianjin said in a statement on Monday.
That number translates into 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second.
Yet to be christened, the new supercomputer – co-developed with the People’s Liberation Army-affiliated National University of Defence Technology – will be 200 times faster and have 100 times more storage capacity than the 600 million yuan (US$95 million) Tianhe-1 (Sky River) supercomputer launched in Tianjin in 2010. The latter model was capable of a maximum range of 2.5 peta floating point operations per second (FLOPS), a measure of computer performance, and briefly retained the crown as the world’s fastest computer from October 2010 to June 2011, Xinhua reported.
The Tianhe-1 has been operating at full capacity as China’s military and commercial needs for supercomputing has shot up since it was launched.
Racks of servers for the Sunway TaihuLight, which was ranked as the world’s fastest supercomputer in November 2017. Photo: Xinhua
The power of supercomputers is harnessed for tasks such as simulated nuclear tests and weaponry design, oil exploration, equipment modeling, biological medicine, animation design and weather forecasting.
These machines are in fact clusters of tens of thousands of CPUs – central processing units – and graphic processing units, as well as legions of servers that typically occupy hundreds of square meters.
Chinese supercomputers occupy the top two spots of the latest Top 500 list compiled by computing scientists in several institutions in the United States, including the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
At the top is the Sunway TaihuLight currently in use in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi. It has a LINPACK benchmark rating of 93 petaflops, on strength of the 40,960 Chinese indigenous SW26010 64-bit processors based on the Sunway architecture with a grand total of 10,649,600 CPU cores in a Linux-derived Sunway Raise operation system, after China shunned Intel’s Xeon processors and Nvidia GPUs previously used to power Chinese supercomputers.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2018-08/05/c_129926915.htm
瞄准超算皇冠：神威Ｅ级超算原型机正式启用
2018-08-05 17:34:08 来源： 新华网
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新华社济南８月５日电（记者萧海川）运算速度达每秒百亿亿次的Ｅ级计算机，被称作“超级计算机界的下一顶皇冠”。５日，国产超算研制向着这一皇冠又迈进了一步：神威Ｅ级超算原型机在国家超级计算济南中心完成部署，并正式启用。
8月5日，国家超级计算济南中心副主任潘景山在介绍神威E级超算原型机及其应用情况。新华社记者 郭绪雷 摄
记者在启用现场看到，神威Ｅ级超算原型机放置在一个黑色机柜中。机柜有一人多高，机柜门上镶嵌着金黄色“神威Ｅ级原型验证系统”字样。在周围“神威·蓝光”机柜的映衬下，显得格外醒目。
神威Ｅ级超算原型机，由国家并行计算机工程技术研究中心联合国家超级计算济南中心等团队，经过两年多的关键技术攻关与突破，最终成功研制并部署投用。这一原型机系统，主要由硬件、软件和应用三大系统组成。其处理器、网络芯片组、存储和管理系统等核心器件全部为国产化。
这一原型机的系统软件，由完全自主研发的神威睿思操作系统、神威睿智编译器等构建。运算系统全部采用“神威２６０１０＋”众核处理器，高速互连网络系统全部采用申威网络交换芯片、申威消息处理芯片，这些关键部件均具备完全自主知识产权。存储和管理系统由申威多核处理器构建，实现对该领域产品的国产化替代。
8月5日，在国家超级计算济南中心，工作人员在查看神威E级原型系统运转情况。新华社记者 郭绪雷 摄
据研制团队介绍，在多态融合计算体系结构、新一代申威众核处理器、软件定义海量存储、高效供电和强化相变冷却等方面，神威Ｅ级超算原型机均实现了重大突破。同时，研制团队在国产超算上构建了人工智能软件生态链，开展多个大规模人工智能应用。
“神威Ｅ级超算原型机，就好比是一台能够上路的概念车。”山东省计算中心（国家超级计算济南中心）主任杨美红表示，原型机的成功研制，对Ｅ级计算机研制方案和技术路线进行了全面系统验证，为Ｅ级计算机的研制成功铺平了道路。
8月5日，在国家超级计算济南中心，工作人员在巡视存储设备运转情况。新华社记者 郭绪雷 摄
此前，国家超级计算济南中心已部署有“神威·蓝光”超算系统。作为我国首台全部采用国产ＣＰＵ和系统软件构建的千万亿次计算机，“神威·蓝光”已运行７年。神威Ｅ级超算原型机的运算能力已达到“神威·蓝光”的三倍，体积仅为后者的九分之一，能耗同比下降７５％。
截至目前，神威Ｅ级超算原型机已完成包括全球气候变化、海洋数值模拟、生物医药仿真、大数据处理和类脑智能等１２个领域的３５项重大计算任务，未来应用前景非常广阔。
8月5日，在国家超级计算济南中心，工作人员在查看存储设备运转情况。新华社记者 郭绪雷 摄
The Sunway TaihuLight, currently the world's fastest supercomputer, is powered by China's homemade CPUs. Photo: Xinhua
Asia UnhedgedReal-time intel on what moves markets
China set to launch its new supercomputer
Chinese supercomputers running on indigenous processing units are charging ahead; new model capable of 1 billion billion calculations per second
By Asia Times staff January 30, 2018 12:47 PM (UTC+8)
A prototype of China’s next generation “exascale” supercomputer capable of crunching data that’s equal to one billion billion calculations within a blink of an eye, is slated for trial later this year, the National Supercomputer Centre in Tianjin said in a statement on Monday.
That number translates into 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second.
Yet to be christened, the new supercomputer – co-developed with the People’s Liberation Army-affiliated National University of Defence Technology – will be 200 times faster and have 100 times more storage capacity than the 600 million yuan (US$95 million) Tianhe-1 (Sky River) supercomputer launched in Tianjin in 2010. The latter model was capable of a maximum range of 2.5 peta floating point operations per second (FLOPS), a measure of computer performance, and briefly retained the crown as the world’s fastest computer from October 2010 to June 2011, Xinhua reported.
The Tianhe-1 has been operating at full capacity as China’s military and commercial needs for supercomputing has shot up since it was launched.
Racks of servers for the Sunway TaihuLight, which was ranked as the world’s fastest supercomputer in November 2017. Photo: Xinhua
The power of supercomputers is harnessed for tasks such as simulated nuclear tests and weaponry design, oil exploration, equipment modeling, biological medicine, animation design and weather forecasting.
These machines are in fact clusters of tens of thousands of CPUs – central processing units – and graphic processing units, as well as legions of servers that typically occupy hundreds of square meters.
Chinese supercomputers occupy the top two spots of the latest Top 500 list compiled by computing scientists in several institutions in the United States, including the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
At the top is the Sunway TaihuLight currently in use in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi. It has a LINPACK benchmark rating of 93 petaflops, on strength of the 40,960 Chinese indigenous SW26010 64-bit processors based on the Sunway architecture with a grand total of 10,649,600 CPU cores in a Linux-derived Sunway Raise operation system, after China shunned Intel’s Xeon processors and Nvidia GPUs previously used to power Chinese supercomputers.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2018-08/05/c_129926915.htm
瞄准超算皇冠：神威Ｅ级超算原型机正式启用
2018-08-05 17:34:08 来源： 新华网
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新华社济南８月５日电（记者萧海川）运算速度达每秒百亿亿次的Ｅ级计算机，被称作“超级计算机界的下一顶皇冠”。５日，国产超算研制向着这一皇冠又迈进了一步：神威Ｅ级超算原型机在国家超级计算济南中心完成部署，并正式启用。
记者在启用现场看到，神威Ｅ级超算原型机放置在一个黑色机柜中。机柜有一人多高，机柜门上镶嵌着金黄色“神威Ｅ级原型验证系统”字样。在周围“神威·蓝光”机柜的映衬下，显得格外醒目。
神威Ｅ级超算原型机，由国家并行计算机工程技术研究中心联合国家超级计算济南中心等团队，经过两年多的关键技术攻关与突破，最终成功研制并部署投用。这一原型机系统，主要由硬件、软件和应用三大系统组成。其处理器、网络芯片组、存储和管理系统等核心器件全部为国产化。
这一原型机的系统软件，由完全自主研发的神威睿思操作系统、神威睿智编译器等构建。运算系统全部采用“神威２６０１０＋”众核处理器，高速互连网络系统全部采用申威网络交换芯片、申威消息处理芯片，这些关键部件均具备完全自主知识产权。存储和管理系统由申威多核处理器构建，实现对该领域产品的国产化替代。
据研制团队介绍，在多态融合计算体系结构、新一代申威众核处理器、软件定义海量存储、高效供电和强化相变冷却等方面，神威Ｅ级超算原型机均实现了重大突破。同时，研制团队在国产超算上构建了人工智能软件生态链，开展多个大规模人工智能应用。
“神威Ｅ级超算原型机，就好比是一台能够上路的概念车。”山东省计算中心（国家超级计算济南中心）主任杨美红表示，原型机的成功研制，对Ｅ级计算机研制方案和技术路线进行了全面系统验证，为Ｅ级计算机的研制成功铺平了道路。
此前，国家超级计算济南中心已部署有“神威·蓝光”超算系统。作为我国首台全部采用国产ＣＰＵ和系统软件构建的千万亿次计算机，“神威·蓝光”已运行７年。神威Ｅ级超算原型机的运算能力已达到“神威·蓝光”的三倍，体积仅为后者的九分之一，能耗同比下降７５％。
截至目前，神威Ｅ级超算原型机已完成包括全球气候变化、海洋数值模拟、生物医药仿真、大数据处理和类脑智能等１２个领域的３５项重大计算任务，未来应用前景非常广阔。
