As an element of high-tech development, supercomputer has long become a competitive weapon for the world's economy and national defense. After decades of unremitting efforts of Chinese scientists and technicians, China's high-performance computer development level has increased significantly, and has become the third largest high-performance computer development and production countries after the United States and Japan. China now has 22 supercomputers (19 in mainland China, 1 in Hong Kong, 2 in Taiwan), ranking 2nd in the world, leading the world in terms of ownership and computing speed, with the rapid development of supercomputer computing speed, it is also increasingly used in industry, scientific research and academic fields. However, there is still a big gap between China and developed countries such as the United States and Germany in terms of supercomputer applications. The development of supercomputers and their applications in China has provided a solid foundation and guarantee for China to take the road of scientific and technological power.

The supercomputer is actually a huge computer system, mainly used to undertake major scientific research, cutting-edge defense technology and national economy in the field of large-scale computing issues and data processing tasks. Such as a wide range of weather forecasting, organizing satellite photos, the exploration of atomic nuclear physics, research on intercontinental missiles, spaceships, etc., the development of national economic development plan, a wide range of projects, time, to take into account a variety of factors, relying on the giant computer can be completed more smoothly.

Supercomputers have been called the "gas pedal of economic transformation and scientific research", and their wide application can lead to the enhancement of the country's overall scientific and technological innovation capability. However, China's supercomputers are generally facing the problem of lack of powerful hardware performance and lack of applications, and research institutions, universities and corporate users have problems such as high supercomputer application costs, lagging software development, and low utilization of equipment. In the face of China's supercomputer application of the lack of problems, some of the leading domestic server vendors efforts to change, in 2009 Wave released "Yitian" desktop supercomputer, with the help of CPU-GPU collaborative computing acceleration architecture, stand-alone computing capacity of up to 4 trillion times a second, truly realized the supercomputer from the huge It has truly realized the transfer of supercomputers from huge computer rooms and computing centers to users' desktops.

Wave also co-organized with ISC the "First China Student Supercomputer Competition and ISC12 International Student Supercomputer Competition Selection Competition in China", which will use one benchmark performance test (Linpack test) and four application tests (CPMD, CP2K, Openfoam and Nemo), The competition will use one benchmark performance test (Linpack test) and four application tests (CPMD, CP2K, Openfoam, Nemo) to focus on examining the comprehensive performance of supercomputers formed by the participating teams, which is obviously application-oriented and is a comprehensive examination of the supercomputer application ability of the participating teams. The organizer of the competition, Wave Group, also emphasized that the competition will become an authoritative, professional and fair competition and communication platform in the field of supercomputing applications to promote applied research and talent cultivation of supercomputing in China.

The "Cold War" of purely pursuing supercomputing TOP positions is over, and the era of application-led computing has arrived. Jack Dongarra, the founder of the Linpack standard, said: "This set of standards is outdated and the new HPCG PDF Link test platform will be associated with mainstream applications. PDF Link test platform will be associated with mainstream applications in the calculation and data access model. It should be said that Dongarra's point of view on behalf of the frontiers of supercomputing applications, a worldwide for horizontal application of the super change has long been underway, and in China there are Dawning and other supercomputing leaders in the field of cloud computing, big data and other courageous practice, the perfect combination of innovative technologies and applications. As the need for applications to perform more complex computations that require high bandwidth and low latency environments, as well as access to data through irregular patterns, has become more prevalent, supercomputer benchmarks need to be updated frequently to ensure that they correctly reflect changes in the way computers are used.