Red Star News Network (reporter Song Yating intern reporter Gu Danyu) reported on July 26, 2022, that on June 26, 2022, Kobayashi, a junior at Southwest Jiaotong University, was very happy, and the opening ceremony of the 31st World University Games was to be held in Dong'an Lake Sports Park. As a sports fan, he has been looking forward to the opening of the 31st World University Games. Before leaving for Dong'an Lake Sports Park, Lin was ready to check the weather forecast first, deciding whether to bring rain gear to travel, according to the Chengdu weather forecast, at seven o'clock in the evening, Dong'an Lake Sports Park will be cloudy weather.
Querying the scene of Chengdu's weather accurate to the hour is no longer science fiction, and now it is a beautiful reality.
This is thanks to the use of the Chengdu Supercomputing Center. The first phase of the Chengdu Supercomputing Center, which was completed in 2020, will use its super computing power to improve the accuracy of meteorological prediction by hundreds of times, and can achieve accurate weather forecasting in different locations in the same area.
In addition to that, what new skills does it unlock? A few days ago, the Red Star News Network reporter interviewed the relevant person in charge of the Chengdu Supercomputing Center to reveal the "Chengdu speed" of this western "super brain".
Super Bull: The speed per second is equivalent to 2 million computers running at the same time
Next to Xinglong Lake in Chengdu's Tianfu New District, a very modern cubic building has attracted the attention of many people, and many citizens and tourists who have come to see it are stopping here to take pictures. The reporter learned that this cube building is the "super brain" in the west - Chengdu Supercomputing Center.
In June 2020, the Chengdu Supercomputing Center, located in the core area of Luxi Zhigu in The Science City of Tianfu New District, Chengdu, was officially unveiled, and the first phase of construction of the Chengdu Supercomputing Center was completed in September 2020. According to the relevant person in charge of Chengdu Supercomputing Center, Chengdu Supercomputing Center is the first state-level supercomputing in western China built by independent controllable technology, with a construction area of about 60,000 square meters, and the main structure is composed of silicon cubes, scientific research buildings and power buildings, and the three buildings "perform their duties". Among them, silicon cube is the core computer room building of the supercomputing center, where the supercomputing host, network, storage, security and terminal infrastructure are stored; the power building is the basic supporting facilities area such as power supply system and cooling system built according to the scale of 300pflops computing power; the scientific research building, mainly the supercomputing exhibition hall and the office and research and development place focusing on the supercomputing application related enterprises to cultivate the supercomputing application industry ecology. "The Chengdu Supercomputing Center conducts the overall planning according to the peak performance of 300pflops of the hashrate scale."
What are pflops? The person in charge told reporters that flops is an abbreviation for the number of floating-point operations performed per second, which is used to measure the computing power of a computer. A pflops (petaflops) is equal to 100 quadrillion floating-point operations per second. "At present, the host performance of Chengdu Supercomputing Center peaks at 170pflops, and the computing speed exceeds 1 billion times per second, which is roughly equivalent to 2 million ordinary computers running at the same time, and its 1-minute computing power is equivalent to 32 years of uninterrupted computing for everyone in the world."
The strategic science and technology innovation platform is the "heavy weapon of the country". The Seventh Plenary Session of the 13th Chengdu Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed "the source of innovation and the depression of advanced elements to promote high-quality development". Building a scientific and technological innovation center with national influence is a major proposition in the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle. "It can be said that as a large-scale scientific device, the supercomputing center is also one of the important areas of new infrastructure." The person in charge said.
As the first state-level supercomputing center in the western region, Chengdu Supercomputing Center helps Chengdu build a scientific and technological innovation center with national influence by accelerating the aggregation of artificial intelligence, big data analysis, and big data processing industries.
Useful: It is a solid cornerstone of scientific and technological innovation
The person in charge introduced that with the improvement of computing power, supercomputing is no longer just a weapon for scientific research, but has penetrated into the lives of citizens, from space exploration and weather forecasting to precision medicine, automatic driving, animation production, and supercomputing figures can be seen everywhere. In 2022, Chengdu will host the 31st World University Games. Chengdu supercomputing uses super computing power to increase the spatial resolution of the current meteorological forecasting grid from 9×9 km to 1×1 km, from the frequency of every 6 hours to a forecast every 1 hour, and the prediction accuracy reaches hundreds of times.
The person in charge said that in biomedicine, the supercomputing center has also played its super computing power. "With the support of Chengdu Supercomputing Center, using a new method of de novo design and pilot optimization of fusion artificial intelligence algorithms, ultra-high-throughput virtual screening (more than 10 million compounds) was carried out for multiple important drug targets, and huge amounts of data were obtained, laying a methodological and material foundation for innovative drug research on new antibiotics and anti-tumor drugs." The person in charge said that with the development of innovative technology, the future can simulate the response of human organs to drugs on the supercomputer, and after screening out suitable candidates, this can greatly accelerate the progress of drug research and development, "Chengdu Supercomputing Center will become a solid cornerstone of scientific and technological innovation." ”
Effective: Four aspects to help Chengdu's development
Since its operation, Chengdu Supercomputing Center has focused on computing services in the four directions of scientific and technological innovation, urban governance, industrial development, and social and people's livelihood. Up to now, it has provided computing services for more than 450 users, covering more than 30 service areas, 19 cities inside and outside the province, assisting in attracting more than 80 enterprises, with a system utilization rate of 35%, completing 5.7 million computing tasks, deploying more than 200 software such as material research and development, and completing 12 national projects such as quantum biological information systems, with a cumulative contract signing amount of about 17.52 million yuan.
"Supercomputing application field is very extensive, it can be said that supercomputing is the cornerstone of all scientific and technological innovation, in Chengdu industrial digitalization, ecological development and urban governance wisdom, digital process, all need strong computing power and resources as the basic support At the same time, supercomputing itself has a very strong 'magnetic effect', not only can focus on leading enterprises through supercomputing to gather, can attract high-end scientific and technological talents to settle in the city, more conducive to cultivating supercomputing application industry ecology." The relevant person in charge of the Chengdu Supercomputing Center told reporters that the Supercomputing Center has played a major role in four aspects on the road of helping Chengdu's scientific and technological innovation:
In terms of industrial development, at present, it has carried out technology research and development cooperation with 194 users such as Huawei, Baidu, Tencent, and Chengdu Aircraft (Industry), and gathered more than 80 ecological partners such as Huawei Kunpeng, Siemens, and Sichuan Aerospace Liaoyuan to seek industrial development. Attract the leading talent team of the national overseas high-level talent program and the national, provincial and ministerial young talent program to gather in Chengdu;
In terms of urban governance, by continuously improving the scientific and intelligent level of urban governance, at present, it has carried out testing and business cooperation with 43 new energy units such as the State Grid, Dongfang Wind Power, and the Low Carbon Institute of Sichuan University, and provided public safety computing support services with 10 users such as Hikvision, AsiaInfo Security, and Xunmei;
In terms of scientific and technological innovation, it has helped the construction of high-energy innovation platforms such as the State Key Laboratory and the National Technology Innovation Center, strongly supported the development of the "four-tier architecture" innovation platform, and provided technical services and computing support for 9 units such as the high-altitude cosmic ray observation station, the second phase of the Meridian Project, and the Tianfu Xinglong Lake Laboratory; and provided corresponding services and support for 56 scientific research institutes such as the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Aerodynamic Center, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as 98 universities such as the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, and Sichuan University;
In terms of social and people's livelihood, we will help chengdu to build ten major projects for a happy and beautiful life and meet the needs of the people for a better life. At present, it has carried out joint research and development cooperation with 25 medical institution users such as Peking Union Medical College Hospital, West China Hospital, and Chongqing Third Military Medical University, and provided computing power support services for 12 disaster early warning users such as the National Meteorological Information Center, the Water Science Institute of the Ministry of Water Resources, and the Sichuan Provincial Earthquake Bureau.