The National Supercomputing Center
The National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou is a significant national scientific and technological innovation platform deployed during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period. Supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, it was jointly established by the Guangdong Provincial Government, the Guangzhou Municipal Government, the National University of Defense Technology, and Sun Yat-sen University. It serves as a critical infrastructure to support the implementation of an innovation-driven strategy and to serve local industrial development. For Sun Yat-sen University, it provides a crucial support platform for conducting major scientific research, serving national strategic needs, and promoting regional economic and social development. Focusing on the "Tianhe-2" supercomputer, it promotes deep integration of high-performance computing and big data, meticulously building five support platforms for scientific research, academic discipline construction, cooperation and exchange, technological innovation, and talent cultivation. Advocating "openness, cooperation, collaboration, and innovation," it aims to achieve a series of landmark results and establish a world-class supercomputing center with Chinese characteristics.
The Supercomputing Center is located in the picturesque East Campus of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou University Town, covering a total construction area of 42,332 square meters (5 floors above ground, approximately 32,332 square meters). Among this, the server room and auxiliary rooms cover an area of about 17,500 square meters, including main server rooms, storage rooms, high and low voltage power distribution rooms, cooling equipment rooms, and other functional rooms.
The business host of the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou—the "Tianhe-2" supercomputer system—is a landmark achievement of the major project under the National 863 Program during the "12th Five-Year Plan." It was developed by the National University of Defense Technology. The "Tianhe-2" system has a peak computing speed of 10.07 petaflops per second and a sustained computing speed of 6.14 petaflops per second, with a total memory capacity of about 3 petabytes and a global storage capacity of approximately 19 petabytes. The peak computing speed, sustained computing speed, and comprehensive technical level of the "Tianhe-2" are at the forefront internationally, representing a significant advancement in China's supercomputing technology development.
