On November 15, the second China Supercomputing Conference was held in Beijing. At the conference, the Top 100 High Performance Computers in China for 2020 were announced.
Shenwei-TahuLight and Tianhe-2A, deployed at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi and Guangzhou respectively, still occupy the top two spots on the list, with Linpack test performances of 93.015 PFlops (trillion times per second) and 93.015 PFlops (trillion times per second) respectively. 61.445 PFlops.
The 3rd and 4th places on the list are new faces. Among them, in the 3rd place is the Beijing super cloud computing center (A partition), Linpack test performance up to 3.743PFlops, all general-purpose X86 supercomputers, the core using AMD’s latest Xiaolong processor “Rome”, located in Beijing Huairou Science City; list of the 4th place is deployed in Inner Mongolia Qingcheng Light”, a public service platform for high performance computing in Inner Mongolia, was built by Tsinghua Tongfang in Heringer New Area.
It is worth mentioning that the Beijing Supercloud Computing Center, established in 2011 with the support of the Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is characterized by providing computing power to users in the form of “supercloud computing service”. This is an effective way to solve the problem of supercomputing’s popularity and to make supercomputing “fly into people’s homes”.
Lenovo’s 8800 series took the top 5-10 spots on the list; the last machine on the list had a performance of 1.869PFlops, an increase of 20.12% over last year’s last machine.
The three computing devices that provide pre-research reference for the ten billion billion times (E-class) computer – the Shenwei E-class prototype system, the National University of Defense Technology E-class prototype system, and the Shuguang E-class prototype – are ranked 30th, 34th and 50th on the list, respectively.
Zhang Yunquan, publisher of the list and a researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that a total of 73 new systems will be submitted in 2020, and according to the Top 100 ranking rules, 47 new machines will be added to the list after the ranking is merged. This also means that only 53 of the 100 systems on the 2019 list remain.
In terms of manufacturers, four units did not submit new machines this year, but the number of manufacturers on the list increased to nine from six in 2019. In terms of share, Lenovo, Inspur, Shuguang “domestic top three” accounted for 89%, “new faces” Tongfang, Dell, Luen Thai cluster each contributed 1 unit.
From the application category, “Internet/machine learning” is the hotspot of supercomputing applications, occupying 55% of the list; “scientific computing and engineering computing” applications accounted for 30%, and information services/other accounted for 15%. Among the application segments, video computing accounts for the largest share of 15 per cent.
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