Role: has a strong ability to calculate and process data, the main characteristics of high-speed and high-capacity, with a variety of external and peripheral equipment and rich, high-function software system. Most of the existing supercomputer computing speed can reach one too (Trillion, trillion) times per second or more.

Currently in China's application areas involving weather and climate, aerospace, advanced manufacturing, new materials and many other aspects, especially in the field of engineering and technology, is of great significance.

As an example, China's commercial airliner full-parameter aerodynamic optimization design, using 24,000 CPU cores to carry out the full-parameter aerodynamic optimization design of a large commercial aircraft, in the calculation of the Tianhe-2 6 days, complete the workload of about two years on its own computing platform. The smooth homecoming of "Tiangong-1" also relied on the supercomputer to provide accurate predictions.

Development History

The term "supercomputing" first appeared in 1929 in a New York World report on "IBM's construction of a large-scale tabulator for Columbia University". The term "computing" first appeared in the New York World in 1929 in a report on "IBM's tabulator for Columbia University. It is a kind of computer that consists of hundreds, thousands or even more processors (machines) and can calculate large and complex subjects that ordinary PCs and servers cannot accomplish.

The computing speed of an ordinary computer is compared to the walking speed of a human being, then the supercomputer reaches the speed of a rocket. Under the premise of such computing speed, people can predict and explain natural phenomena that could not be experimented before through numerical simulation.

Since 1976, the United States Clay company launched the world's first computing speed of 250 million times per second since the supercomputer, highlighting a country's scientific and technological strength of the supercomputer, known as a set of thousands of favorites in the high-tech favorites, such as weather forecasting, life sciences, genetic analysis, the nuclear industry, the military, aerospace and other high-tech areas to show off, so that the countries of science and technology elite to compete, and the countries are embarking on research and development of billions of billion-size supercomputers. Countries are embarking on research and development of billion billion supercomputers.

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