Calculation power can be understood as computing power, which is the computing power of hardware such as CPUs and GPUs used for data computation. It is currently generally used to measure the operating speed of virtual currency miners. Supercomputing power refers to the ability to integrate and manage idle computing power dispersed across the world wide web and converge it into ultra-high performance computing services. It can be simply understood as a ****-enjoyed version of distributed cloud computing, or a ****-enjoyed version of a supercomputer. It can be used for training AI (Artificial Intelligence), weather forecasting, big data analysis and so on.
In the computer industry, supercomputers have always been considered the locomotive of information development. Because many state-of-the-art information technologies, including many processor technologies, virtualization technologies, quantum computing, new memory components, etc. , all of which first served the supercomputing field, and then as the technology matured and prices fell, they began to be popularized, which are used in servers, personal computers and even cell phones.
In fact, the computing power of cloud computing and big data, two popular concepts in the IT field, also derive from the foundation and interpretation of supercomputing. Cloud computing is the simultaneous running of a large number of small tasks that have nothing to do with each other, and is known in the industry as high-throughput computing. Big Data is primarily for data mining, mainly for graph algorithms. In contrast, supercomputing is the most demanding, seeking performance and computing individual tasks in the shortest possible time. Although in different forms, they all lag behind the requirements of computing power, so they can also be called generalized supercomputing.
Wang Endong, chief scientist of Inspur Group, said that the final expression of the results of supercomputing may be a major scientific research projects, innovative product breakthroughs, or beautiful cultural and creative works. And these results can bring people more convenient and scientific life and improve the quality of life of ordinary people. For example, the use of supercomputers in the medical field can not only sequence genes to fundamentally crack the "code" of human life, avoid many congenital diseases from the perspective of gene repair, but also select the most appropriate ratio among millions of drug components for the development of new drugs. With the popularization of smart wearable devices, supercomputers can be used to monitor everyone's health in real time and provide timely reminders of cold precursors, fatigue and other minor symptoms.
In the future, Jinan Supercomputing Center Science Park will build a new generation of supercomputer scientific instruments with world-leading computing power, and make high-performance computing a public **** product like hydropower; bring together world-class experts, introduce a number of international platforms, and attract a number of leading enterprises that "build supercomputers and use supercomputers. "leading enterprises, incubate a number of strategic emerging enterprises, and strive to cultivate the formation of a 100-billion industry chain clusters within five years; to create a "supercomputing Internet" rooted in Shandong, covering the whole country and connecting the world, and to create an international "Computing Expo "
These are the first steps in the development of a new technology and innovation industry.