There are five existing cloud computing centers at the national level:
Tianjin Cloud Computing Center (2009)
The National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin is the first supercomputing center approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (MOST) in May 2009, and was constructed by the Binhai New Area (BNDA) of Tianjin and the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT)*** together.
Tianjin Supercomputing Center is located in Building 5 of Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) Outsourcing Service Park, occupying a housing area of about 8,500 square meters, with two large-scale computer rooms*** of about 4,000 square meters, one of which is used to house the "Tianhe-1" supercomputer, and the second one is used for One of the rooms is used to house the "Tianhe-1" supercomputer, and the second is used for cloud computing and system expansion. In addition, there is a substation and a refrigeration station with a power supply capacity of 13,600KVA and a cooling capacity of 9,600KW, providing a strong supporting capacity.
The main business computer of Tianjin Supercomputing Center is "Tianhe-1" supercomputer, which was jointly developed by National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) and Binhai New Area (BNA) in September 2009 with the support of "High Performance Computer and Grid Service Environment", a major project of Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) 863 Program. In September 2009, the University of National Defense Technology and Binhai New Area jointly developed the first phase of the system; in October 2010, the second phase of the system was completed by adopting an independent CPU and an independent high-speed interconnection and communication system, as well as comprehensive optimization. The "Tianhe-1" supercomputer was awarded the world's first place in the November 2010 Top 500 ranking of the world's supercomputers.
Tianjin Supercomputing Center's main applications of high-performance computing include: biomedicine, oil and seismic exploration data processing, animation and film rendering, new materials and new energy, high-end equipment design and simulation, aviation and aerospace, fluid dynamics, weather forecasting, climate prediction, marine environment simulation and analysis, and so on. Approved for establishment in May 2009, installed and debugged in June 2011, the supercomputing center was put into operation to launch the ceremony in November of the same year; in June 2012, it formally provided commercial services of high-performance computing business to the society; as of May 2014, the utilization rate of computational resources has exceeded 55%, the high-performance computing users have reached 1,056, and the cloud computing individual users have exceeded 1,750,000 people and 13,221 organizations.
The National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen (Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center) is a major science and technology infrastructure project with the largest single investment since the founding of Shenzhen. The project is the National 863 Program, Guangdong Province and Shenzhen City, a major project, but also Shenzhen to implement the "Pearl River Delta Reform and Development Plan Outline (2008-2020)" and "Shenzhen Comprehensive Supporting Reform Program" of the specific actions.
The mainframe system of the National Supercomputing Center Shenzhen (Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center) was confirmed by the World Supercomputing Organization in May 2010, with a computing speed of 1,271 trillion times per second, ranking second in the world. It is also equipped with a massive storage capacity of 17.2 petabytes and abundant network bandwidth resources from major carriers and educational networks.
Shenzhen Construction and Public Works Department, the Supercomputing Center's civil engineering is relatively complex, the machine room building precision air conditioning, chiller units, cooling towers, high and low voltage cabinets and other equipment installation is the same area of an ordinary building of 10 times, the project is configured with 30 kilometers of fiber-optic cables, 200 kilometers of Category 6 network cable, strong power cables in the building up to 15 kilometers. The daily water consumption of the supercomputing mainframe and other equipment cooling water exceeds 1,000 cubic meters, which is close to the capacity of a standard swimming pool. The supercomputing center adopts uninterruptible power supply for the mainframe, and there are 2,874 sets of batteries alone, equivalent to the total capacity of 23,000 car batteries. The project has been under construction since September 2010, with an actual construction period of only one year and three months.
The National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen (Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center) is based in Shenzhen, facing the whole country, serving South China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, carrying out all kinds of large-scale scientific computation and engineering simulation, animation rendering and other computing services, and at the same time providing cloud computing services for the society with its powerful data processing and storage capacity, and it will be built into a full-featured, rich-platform, high-efficiency energy saving and international first-class high-performance computing research and development center and cloud computing center. It will be a fully functional, platform-rich, energy-efficient and world-class high-performance computing research and development center and cloud computing service center. The Changsha National Supercomputing Center was put into trial operation in 2011, and on November 4, 2014, it was inaugurated for official operation. The third national supercomputing center approved for construction after Tianjin and Shenzhen. Unlike other supercomputing centers in China, Changsha Supercomputing Center relies entirely on universities for its operation.
Site: Hunan University campus, using the University of National Defense Technology "Tianhe One" high-performance computer, according to the computing capacity of 1,000 trillion times per second planning and construction, a total investment of 720 million yuan. National Supercomputing Center Changsha Phase I project planning construction area of 30,000 square meters, is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2011, after the completion of the computing capacity will reach 300 trillion times per second, by Hunan University is responsible for the operation of the University of National Defense University of Science and Technology to provide computing equipment and technical support, adhering to the principle of combining the public welfare and business, to provide the community and the public with high-performance computing application services.
Since its trial operation in 2011, the center has provided high-performance computing platform services for public ****services such as meteorology, land, water conservancy, health/medical, and transportation. The center has established a strategic partnership with domestic institutions in the field of high-performance computing, cloud computing and animation rendering, and has been tried out in some large-scale enterprise platforms in and outside the province, and after the official operation, it will provide large-scale simulation and design public **** services for the national equipment manufacturing enterprises.
In November 2010, the foundation stone was laid and construction began, in accordance with the "government-led, military cooperation, provincial school **** built, market operation" mode to actively promote the construction of the project. The project host equipment in June 2011 in the National Defense Technology University (NDTU) comprehensive online trial run, the project's main building project was completed in July 2013, an acceptance, at the same time, the host equipment from the NDTU relocated to the new site of Hunan University, and to complete the installation and commissioning, has been formally launched the operation of the basic conditions. National Supercomputing Jinan Center is one of the four trillion supercomputing centers approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology, with a total investment of 600 million yuan, the construction of the main body of Shandong Provincial Academy of Sciences, and its subordinate units of Shandong Provincial Computing Center is responsible for the construction, management and operation.
Jinan Center officially started construction in March 2011, and was inaugurated on October 27 of that year to provide computing services to the public. The successful construction of the Jinan Center marks the fact that China has become the third country after the U.S. and Japan to use its own processor to build a multi-trillion supercomputer system. Tested by the national authority, the sustained performance of the Shenwei Blue Light supercomputer system in Jinan Center is 0.796PFlops (PetaFlops, 10 billion floating point operations/second), the LINPACK efficiency is 74.4%, and the performance to power ratio is more than 741MFlops/W (Million Floating Point Operations/Second - Watt), and the assembling density and performance to power ratio is at the world's advanced level.
Jinan Center, relying on Shandong Academy of Sciences, has set up a research and service team integrating technology development, computing service and technical support, and works closely with domestic and foreign experts and application units to provide computing and technical support services in the fields of marine science, modern agriculture, oil and gas exploration, climate and meteorology, drug screening, financial analysis, information security, industrial design, animation rendering, etc. It undertakes major projects of national, provincial and municipal governments. It undertakes major scientific and technological or engineering projects at national, provincial and ministerial levels, and provides platform support for scientific and technological innovation and economic development in China. Positioning of the center: a public welfare high-performance computing technology and consulting service organization. Beijing Super Cloud Computing Center is located in Yanqi Economic Development Zone in Huairou, Beijing, built by Beijing Municipality and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in cooperation***, in June 2014 announced that it will officially provide super cloud computing services to the public.
Beijing Super Cloud Computing Center provides 300 trillion times per second computing power in the first phase, and in 2015 the computing power will reach 2000 trillion times per second. Chi Xuebin, director of the Super Computing Center of CAS, said the establishment of the center will further deepen the cooperation between CAS and Huairou District and accelerate the transformation and landing of CAS's high-precision achievements in Huairou District. Lvliang cloud computing is in the country to promote the deep development of civil-military integration in the context of the National University of Defense Technology and Lvliang Municipal People's Government combined with the advantages and characteristics of the first batch of key construction projects, in accordance with the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee Secretary Wang Rulin put forward the "Lvliang Cloud Computing Center based in Lvliang, service Shanxi, radiation nationwide," the general requirements, to build a high-performance nationwide In accordance with the general requirements of "Based on Lvliang, serving Shanxi and radiating to the whole country" put forward by Wang Rulin, Party Secretary of Shanxi Province, the Lvliang Cloud Computing Center is to build a high-performance computing platform for the whole country, a cloud service platform for Shanxi and neighboring provinces, and a data disaster recovery and backup center for North China to serve scientific research, economic construction, governmental public **** management, and information security of the region, and to become an important IT infrastructure for scientific innovation and industrial transformation of central and western regions. The business host deployed in the center is "Tianhe II", which adopts the CPU and operating system independently developed by the National Defense Research University, with a computing speed of 3280 trillion times per second. The server cluster system includes 1216 X86 servers and 4096 Fetion servers. The total existing storage capacity of the center is 7PB, which will be expanded to 10PB in the future; in terms of network security, the center accesses the four-line network of Unicom, Telecom, Mobile, and Education Network, and relies on the operator to directly access the national backbone network of the Northwest China, and the exclusive bandwidth can be expanded to a maximum of 50 G. Overall, the Lvliang Cloud Computing Center is equipped with high-configuration hardware and advanced cloud computing technology, with strong computing power and large storage space, The network access capacity is multi-dimensional, at the same time, the center relies on the University of National Defense Technology to establish a highly reliable information security system, the user's data security is guaranteed.