Since its release in June 2016, the "Sunway Taihu Light" supercomputer system has won the first place in the world's TOP500 supercomputer list for four consecutive times; it has been successfully selected as the "World's Leading Scientific and Technological Achievement" in the third and fourth Wuzhen Internet Conference. Based on "Sunway Taihu Light", two tens of millions of core complete machine applications won the world's highest award in the field of high-performance computing in 2016 and 2017 - the "Gordon Bell" award. Another major breakthrough in the field of computing applications.
In order to strengthen the communication between my country's supercomputing center and various application fields, and to promote and promote the development and application of application software based on domestic supercomputers, on April 27th, the 6th CCF Taihu Forum-Supercomputer Parallel Application Conference was held at HUALUXE Taihu Wuxi. Held in the West China Hall of the hotel.
This conference is hosted by China Computer Federation (CCF), organized by China Computer Federation (CCF) Wuxi Branch, Wuxi Economic and Information Commission, Wuxi Science and Technology Bureau, Wuxi Science and Technology Association, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Wuxi The "Supercomputer Parallel Application Conference" co-organized by the ward, Wuxi Binhu People's Government, National Supercomputing Wuxi Center, Beijing Parallel Technology Co., Ltd., CCF YOCSEF Wuxi Sub-Forum and Wuxi Computer Society was successfully opened in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. The theme of this conference is "Supercomputing and Artificial Intelligence". Chen Xiaohua, Secretary of Wuxi Science and Technology Association , attended the conference and delivered a speech.
The conference invited many domestic high-performance computing and well-known experts and scholars in various application fields to attend the conference. The guests included academician Chen Zuoning, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and vice-chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology, and the national key research and development projects for high-performance computing during the 13th Five-Year Plan. There are more than ten people including Professor Qian Depei, the leader of the overall group.
In the field of supercomputing, the footsteps of E-class (exascale) systems are already approaching us; in the field of artificial intelligence, the development in recent years is even more prosperous. The pursuit of computing power for applications in the two fields is endless; the deep integration of the two system architectures will become one of the important trends in the development of supercomputing technology. This conference provides a communication platform for experts, scholars and enterprises in the field of supercomputing and artificial intelligence to promote technical exchanges and progress, in order to achieve the purpose of deep integration. At the same time, it also provides demand suggestions for the construction and application of my country's "13th Five-Year Plan" E-class supercomputer. It is expected that by 2020, the Shenwei E-class computer will be settled in Qingdao State Key Laboratory of Oceanography.
At the conference, the participating experts and scholars expressed their heartfelt congratulations and affirmations on the current application achievements of the "Sunway TaihuLight" supercomputer, and also expressed congratulations on the successful holding of this conference. Academician Chen Zuoning, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that with the explosive development of artificial intelligence, its demand for data and computing is constantly increasing. We can find the common structure of various algorithms by studying multiple types of algorithms in the field of artificial intelligence; Parallelization strategy, looking for a computing model suitable for large-scale and highly scalable conditions, and finally, based on the development of algorithms and applications, new guidelines for architecture design are put forward. Professor Qian Depei, head of the national high-performance computing key research and development project team during the "13th Five-Year Plan", briefly introduced the main challenges in the development of E-class supercomputers during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, and introduced the key technology verification prototype system for E-class computers. The urgency of establishing an ecological environment for high-performance computing applications based on domestic processors was discussed in depth. Professor Yang Guangwen, director of the National Supercomputing Wuxi Center, hopes to build a world-class supercomputing center, and hopes that more application units will join the industrialization of supercomputing technology in the future. The ultimate goal is to build a high-performance computing ecosystem. The official release of Shenwei Community and Wuxi Supercomputing Cloud Platform: Shenwei Community is a highly active online forum community. You can publish announcements, technical exchanges, group chats, follow, real-time message notifications, post markdown documents, and more. Provide a place for high-performance computing enthusiasts to discuss freely, learn from each other and share; the general cloud desktop system for high-performance computing applications takes the supercomputing environment of the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi as the hardware basis to realize the construction of the software framework of the application service cloud platform and high-throughput scheduling control. Design mainly through packaging high-performance computing applications (including: EDA design simulation, numerical computing, material design, molecular dynamics, fluid mechanics, industrial design, image rendering, engineering computing, cluster management, parallel application software development (MPI, OpenMP, CUDA) ), Linpack test research, supercomputing services, etc.), support cloud mode services and data storage above 10PB level, support effective computing and efficient scheduling of 103 to 104 concurrent tasks for more than 500 users, and simplify the use of HPC platforms for users. Through simple desktop operations, the system effectively and reasonably allocates concurrent access requests; makes full use of the parallel computing resources of the server, and automatically processes and calculates cases.
In recent years, artificial intelligence technology represented by deep learning has achieved good results in many fields. Special processors for deep learning research have also become a hot spot in academia and industry. Cambrian deep learning processors, iFLYTEK Leading companies in the original innovation and implementation of artificial intelligence, such as deep learning platforms, shared their own growth history and future development in the field of artificial intelligence.
In addition to a series of academic lectures, during this conference, the summary of the first domestic CPU parallel application challenge (CPC) and the launching ceremony of the second domestic CPU parallel application challenge (CPC) will be held to select excellent applications through the competition , reserve and train my country's supercomputing talent team, and further improve the overall level of my country's supercomputing industry.
Since the official release of the "Sunway TaihuLight" supercomputer in June 2016, its application achievements and honors have been widely recognized and affirmed by domestic experts. The "Supercomputing and Artificial Intelligence" held in Wuxi this time further promoted the promotion and application of domestic supercomputer technological achievements represented by "Sunway Taihu Light". In the future, the National Supercomputing Wuxi Center will use the "Sunway Light of Taihu Lake" as a platform to actively organize professional high-level conferences in related fields, and provide a comprehensive technical exchange platform for domestic and foreign supercomputer software and hardware manufacturers and application experts. It is hoped that the supercomputing system, support and application teams at home and abroad will actively participate in the ecological construction based on the Shenwei supercomputer, expand the application field, improve the application level, and actively work to improve the international status of my country's supercomputing. The National Supercomputing Wuxi Center will also make further use of the "Sunway TaihuLight" supercomputer to enable the domestic supercomputer system to achieve better application results in many important fields such as artificial intelligence, and to improve the application level of high-performance computing in my country. some contribution.
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