SUSTech HPC “Tai-Yi” Ranked No. 127 Globally

Regarded as the “Oscars” of global supercomputing industry, the SC2018 Supercomputing Conference was held in Dallas, USA from Nov 11 to Nov 16, in which the latest TOP500 supercomputer ranking list was released. The phase-II HPC cluster “Tai-Yi” newly installed at SUSTech CCSE in October is ranked No. 127 in the list, which is the top 1 position among those of domestic non-military universities.

Originated in 1993, TOP500 is a famous ranking list of available supercomputers all around the world jointly compiled by supercomputing experts from US and Germany. The TOP500 project ranks high-performance clusters based on test results of the Linpack performance benchmark and publishes the list of the first 500 clusters with highest performance on www.top500.org.

The listed SUSTech “Tai-Yi” HPC contains 32400 Intel Xeon cores, achieving a theoretical computational performance of 2.5 PFlops and a measured computational performance of 1.687 PFlops. Work of system commissioning and software installation is still ongoing and it is anticipated that “Tai-Yi” will be ready for use at the end of this year.

We believe SUSTech CCSE’s advanced planning in supercomputing will provide a solid technical foundation for the university’s research in fundamental disciplines such as Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Materials, etc.

The “Tai-Yi” HPC cluster (1)

The “Tai-Yi” HPC cluster (2)
 

Engineers discussing
 

Source: Center for Computational Science and Engineering