Shanghai Supercomputer Center (SSC; ) offers high performance computing (HPC), technical support and technical consulting services to customers from scientific research, public utilities services, and industrials and engineering. It was founded in December 2000 with an investment by the
Shanghai Municipal Government
The Politics of Shanghai is structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in the mainland of the People's Republic of China (PRC). In the last few decades the city has produced many of the country's eventu ...
. SSC has over 350 users from 27 provinces across
China, and covers 20 different fields and industries, which include weather forecast, drug design, life science, auto design, new material, civil engineering, physics, chemistry, and aerospace.
During the past decade, SSC has introduced three HPC systems, two of which were ranked #10 in
TOP500
The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non- distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these updates always coinci ...
list in 2004 and 2009 separately:
DAWNING 4000A (10TFlops) and DAWNING 5000A (Magic Cube, 230TFlops).
See also
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Dawning Information Industry
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Computing platform
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Supercomputer centers in China
References
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Economy of Shanghai
Supercomputer sites
Computer science institutes in China
Science and technology in China
Supercomputing in China
2000 establishments in China
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