In the computer industry, supercomputers have always been regarded as the locomotive of information development. Because many of the most advanced information technologies, including many processor technologies, virtualization technologies, quantum computing, new memory components and so on. , which was first used in the field of supercomputing, became popular with the maturity of technology and the decline of price, and was applied to servers, personal computers and even mobile phones.
In fact, the computing power of cloud computing and big data, two popular concepts in the IT field, also comes from the foundation and deduction of supercomputing. Cloud computing is to run a large number of small tasks at the same time, and these tasks are not related to each other, which is called Qualcomm quantity computing in the industry. Big data is mainly data mining, mainly graph algorithm. In contrast, supercomputing has the highest requirements, pursues performance and calculates a single task in the shortest time. Although the forms are different, 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 ultimate manifestation of supercomputing results may be breakthroughs in major scientific research projects and innovative products, or exquisite cultural and creative works. These achievements can bring people a 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, fundamentally crack the "code" of human life, avoid many congenital diseases from the perspective of gene repair, but also select the most suitable proportion among millions of pharmaceutical ingredients for the research and development of new drugs. With the popularity of smart wearable devices, supercomputers can be used to monitor everyone's health in real time and remind them of various minor symptoms such as cold precursors and fatigue in time.
In the future, Jinan Supercomputing Center Science and Technology Park will build a new generation of supercomputing scientific instruments with world-leading computing power, and turn high-performance computing into a public product like hydropower; Gather world-class experts, introduce and deploy a number of international platforms, attract a number of leading enterprises that "build and use supercomputers", incubate a number of strategic emerging enterprises, and strive to cultivate and form a 100 billion-level industrial chain cluster within five years; Build a "supercomputing Internet" rooted in Shandong, covering the whole country and connecting the world, build an international "computing Expo" and form a "super brain" leading the development of global scientific and technological innovation.