CCTV News (news broadcast on February 28th):
The fastest personal supercomputer in China is offline
The fastest personal supercomputer in China, Inspur Trillion Desktop Supercomputer, has recently been offline, and its maximum computing power can reach 4 trillion times per second, equivalent to 2.
Today, Inspur, a leading server manufacturer in China, held a press conference in Beijing, and officially launched the industry's first teraflop desktop supercomputer-"Eternal", with a price of only 5, yuan. Wang Endong, senior vice president of Inspur Group, Zhang Jianzhong, general manager of NVIDIA in China, and experts and users in the computer field attended the meeting. The advent of the wave of "Eternal" indicates that China has reached the international leading level in the field of desktop supercomputers, which will greatly alleviate the shortage of high-performance computing resources, effectively improve China's grassroots scientific research level, and promote China's scientific research and computing to easily enter the "trillion-time popularization era".
It is understood that "Eternal" is an important research and development achievement of "Inspur State Key Laboratory of High-performance Server and Storage Technology". Its peak computing power can reach 4 trillion times per second, which is equivalent to the computing power of 4 servers or 2 PCs. Its volume is similar to that of ordinary computers, and its cost is only 1/5 of that of traditional high-performance computing systems.
"In China, the traditional high-performance computing system generally adopts the superposition of several computing nodes to improve the overall computing scale, but with the increase of the number of cluster nodes, it will inevitably bring about the problems of computing bottleneck and high cost." Wang Endong, senior vice president of Inspur Group, said: "Inspur's Eternal Supercomputer adopts innovative collaborative accelerated computing technology and introduces new GPU computing units inside the nodes, which completely breaks the limitations of the original technical ideas and opens up new space for the development of China's high-performance industries. At the same time,' Eternal' has also successfully created a market segment of desktop supercomputers and defined the starting level to trillions of times. "
in this regard, Zhang Jianzhong, general manager of NVIDIA in China, said, "GPU has great parallel computing capability. As the inventor of GPU, NVIDIA extended this great capability to the field of high-performance computing and developed Tesla GPU, which laid a revolutionary foundation for the realization of personal supercomputers. We are very happy to cooperate with Inspur to launch trillions of desktop supercomputers, bringing higher performance, more reasonable prices and greatly reduced energy costs to China users. "
for users, the emergence of the wave of "relying on the sky" makes the application of high-performance computing no longer a luxury. According to statistics, 75% of the demand of the whole high-performance computing market is concentrated in high-performance clusters with less than 64 nodes and an operation speed of about 4 trillion times. However, the price of cluster system of the above scale ranges from hundreds of thousands to millions. For many grass-roots scientific research institutions, enterprise R&D centers and even individual users, although there is demand, they are unable to buy expensive cluster equipment, which leads to the lag of innovation ability and insufficient competitiveness in related fields in China. The wave of low-cost and high-performance "Eternal" has broad application prospects in medical imaging, molecular dynamics, gene comparison, financial simulation, animation rendering, film editing, new material development and other fields, making it a reality that users in these fields have trillions of high-performance equipment. This will play a fundamental role in breaking the bottleneck of high-performance application, improving the innovation ability of enterprises and improving production efficiency.
industry analysts believe that the advent of "Eternal" desktop supercomputers not only lowered the threshold in the field of high-performance computing, but also made every scientific research institution in need "affordable and usable", and made China's high-performance industry step out of the "ivory tower" of project customization, winning a broader development space, and finally promoted the optimization and upgrading of the entire high-performance industrial structure through market-oriented power. More importantly, with the widespread use of high-performance computing in production, scientific research and other fields, it will fundamentally change people's concepts-it will become a habit to improve scientific research and creative productivity with trillions of supercomputers. (Jinan Science and Technology Information Network)