The Center for Computational Science and Engineering (CCSE) was founded in October 2018. Currently, it is staffed by Prof. Wang Lianping (director), Prof. Shi Yuhui (vice director), Dr. Fan Jing (chief engineer), Mr. Xie Zuoyang (engineer), Mr. Ou Zhengyi (engineer), Mr. Yang Qiyao (engineer), and Ms. Li Yun (secretary). The main tasks of CCSE are to greatly promote and effectively manage the equipment platform for high performance computing and big data analysis at SUSTech, bringing it to a leading position among domestic universities and gradually a world-class level; to collect SUSTech’s achievements in high performance computing research and organize relevant academic symposiums, encouraging discussions in frontier disciplines such as supercomputing and big data analytics; to collect, analyze, and coordinate the computational requirements from different departments; and, to cultivate talents in HPC for the university.

The HPC cluster construction process is divided into two phases. “Qi-Ming”, the phase-I cluster, contains 230 two-socket blade nodes, 7 fat nodes, and 6 GPU nodes, equipped with Lustre parallel file storage system and Mellanox InfiniBand EDR 100 Gbps network. The peak performance of “Qi-Ming” HPC exceeds 300 TFLOPS, in which 44 TFLOPS are the peak performance contributed by GPUs. The phase-II cluster named “Tai-Yi” contains 815 two-socket blade nodes, 7 flat nodes, and 4 GPU nodes, which are equipped with GPFS parallel file storage system and are interconnected by Intel Omni-Path Architecture (OPA) 100 Gbps high-speed network. The theoretical peak computational performance of “Tai-Yi” HPC can exceed 2.5 PFLOPS, while the measured performance is higher than 1.6 PFLOPS. In the TOP500 List released in Nov 2018, “Tai-Yi” was ranked No. 127.