CAS Launches High-Performance Distributed GPU Supercomputing System

CAS High-Performance Distributed GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) Supercomputing System was officially launched at IPE (Institute of Process Engineering), Chinese Academy of Sciences on April 24, 2010, Beijing .

This computer system, with aggregated computing capacity of 6 petafalops, consisted of 10 sets of 100gflops computing system from Lenovo and Dawning.The development and deploy of the supercomputer were sponsored by special funds from both state government and CAS. The system will serve many key state programs and national natural sciences fund projects as well as big corporations, covering the industries including chemical engineering, metallurgy, oil and mining.

High-Performance Distributed GPU Supercomputing System (Picture/IPE)

Dr. LU Yongxiang, President of CAS delivered a speech at the launching ceremony. He pointed out that the high-performance GPU supercomputing system was a big victory in CAS Knowledge Innovation Program III. It indicated that China has the ability to use high-performance computation to meet the challenges in research and engineering practices. China has become one of the world leaders in collaboration of hardware and software and cost and efficiency.

Professor LI Jinghai, CAS Vice President, Professor DENG Maicun, CAS General Secretary, Professor TAN Tieniu, CAS Deputy General Secretary and ZHAO Lu from Ministry of Finance were presented at the meeting.