In recent years, high-performance computing has become more and more widely used in scientific research and production fields , and has become an indispensable strategic equipment for national scientific and technological innovation and even economic development. Although my country's supercomputers continue to make breakthroughs in computing peaks, software development and application levels are relatively lagging behind. For example, there are more and more high-performance systems with thousands of computing cores, but there are few software that can support such large-scale computing cores. Very few. This situation greatly limits the use of equipment computing power. The operating efficiency of most systems often does not exceed 20%, resulting in the embarrassing situation of "scarcity and waste" of high-performance computing resources.
Chen Hao (left), Secretary of the Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Wang Endong, Senior Vice President of Inspur Group
The cooperation between the Supercomputing Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Inspur will greatly alleviate this situation. According to the memorandum of cooperation, in addition to sorting out and standardizing the development of the rich application cases of the Supercomputing Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and jointly launching overall solutions, the two parties will also set up a professional technical team to provide users with a variety of technical services. To relieve users from IT technology problems: first, the planning and design of high-performance computing systems, including the planning of high-performance computing application cases in various fields and analysis of specific application requirements, emphasizing the professionalism, comprehensiveness and efficiency of application solutions; the second is high-performance systems Operation, maintenance and management, including computing services and technical support solutions for various application directions, high-performance computing technology training, etc., highlighting standardization and systematization; the third is application development and optimization, including commercial and open source software installation and debugging, application software design and optimization to give full play to the computing performance of the system.
It is not difficult to see from the content of the cooperation that this cooperation between Inspur and the Supercomputing Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is a true "strong alliance and complementary advantages." Over the years, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been responsible for the scientific computing work of many major national projects, accumulated rich experience in application development and optimization, and established a systematic and scientific system in the operation and maintenance management of large-scale high-performance clusters. As the first domestic leading manufacturer to get involved in the high-performance computing industry, Inspur not only has a complete Tissot series of high-performance products, but also has established a marketing service system covering multiple industries and has a broad customer base. Through cooperation, the supercomputing center can transform these accumulated intangible experiences into tangible assets, export them to other enterprises and institutions in society, and realize greater technical and economic value. After receiving the technical support of the supercomputing center, Inspur Our solution development and optimization capabilities have been greatly improved, and our core competitiveness has been further strengthened.
Chi Xuebin, director of the Supercomputing Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, believes that this cooperation with Inspur can greatly improve the practical application level of high-performance computing in my country, shorten the scientific research and innovation cycle, and enable high-performance computing to truly play a "scientific research accelerator" in the process of national economic construction. ” role, thus driving the enhancement of my country’s overall scientific and technological innovation capabilities. At the same time, Chi Xuebin pointed out that this cooperation is also a useful attempt for the in-depth development of the supercomputing center’s “industry-university-research” innovation model. It is an important measure to practice the scientific outlook on development and has a positive impact on the supercomputing center’s own system and mechanism construction. significance.
Wang Endong, senior vice president of Inspur Group, said that the complementary advantages of Inspur and the Supercomputing Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are ultimately reflected in a "one-stop" high-performance overall solution that takes into account both cost and efficiency. For users, this efficient solution actually turns a complex, high-performance construction project into a "turnkey" project. Not only can it lower the threshold for high-performance applications, so that users are no longer constrained by the lack of IT expertise, but it can also significantly reduce users' computing costs, directly improve the efficiency of high-performance applications, and truly achieve high-performance computing. "easy to use" and "use well".
Industry insiders believe that this cooperation between the Supercomputing Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Inspur is the first in the domestic high-performance field, both in terms of cooperation content and cooperation results, and is a bold innovation and attempt in the development model of the high-performance industry. On the one hand, this model incorporates high-performance application technology and experience that were originally closed within scientific research institutions into the industrial system, making full use of technical resources and greatly alleviating the application bottleneck problem in the high-performance industry. The vast number of high-performance computing users will directly benefit from it. At the same time, for hardware manufacturers such as Inspur, cooperation will further enhance their own development capabilities in software and applications.