A supercomputing center for the innovation and application of related industries was launched Tuesday at the Suzhou Industrial Park in east China's Jiangsu province to further satisfy the growing demand for computing power.
Supported by the Suzhou International Science-Park Data Center, the newly launched supercomputing center will be built in two phases with a total investment of 210 million yuan (about US$30 million).
The first phase of construction started in 2019 and is currently finished with nearly 200 servers in over 50 cabinets performing a peak single-precision floating-point of 2,657 TFLOPs.
"The center is equipped with more GPUs to enhance its abilities of parallel processing and deep learning," said Michael Gu, deputy general manager of the Suzhou Supercomputing Center Co., Ltd.
Established in 1994, Suzhou Industrial Park has attracted a dozen high-tech enterprises in the fields of AI, biomedicine, nanotechnology and intelligent manufacturing that are in need of supercomputing support in product R&D and use.
"After more than three months of customer tests and optimization, the center is now basically able to meet the requirements of enterprises based in the Suzhou Industrial Park," Gu said.
By pushing forward with the second phase, the center aims to provide stronger support for the technological innovation of IT applications, as well as bolster strategic emerging industries and smart city construction.
