High performance computing(HPC)
core competitiveness
Increase the computing speed
The HPC system can significantly enhance the computing speed through parallel processing, thereby reducing the time required to solve the problem.
Handling complex problems
HPC is capable of handling complex problems that traditional computers cannot solve, such as climate modeling, genomic analysis and material simulation.
Support large-scale datasets
The HPC system is capable of storing and processing massive data sets, which is of vital importance for solving modern scientific and engineering problems.
How does HPC work?
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massively parallel computation
Parallel computing runs multiple tasks simultaneously on multiple computer servers or processors. Large-scale parallel computing involves performing parallel computations using tens of thousands to millions of processors or processor cores.
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Computer cluster (also known as HPC Cluster)
The HPC Cluster is composed of multiple interconnected high-speed computer servers, and is equipped with a central scheduler for managing the parallel computing workload. These computers (also known as nodes) use high-performance multi-core CPUs or, more commonly nowadays, GPUs, the latter being suitable for rigorous mathematical computations, machine learning models, and graphics-intensive tasks. A single HPC Cluster can contain 100,000 or more nodes.
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High-performance components
All other computing resources in the HPC Cluster, such as network, memory, storage and file system, have characteristics like high speed and high throughput. They are also low-latency components that can keep in sync with the nodes and optimize the computing capacity and performance of the cluster.
usage scenario
Healthcare, genomics and life sciences
The first attempt at sequencing the human genome took 13 years; nowadays, an HPC system can complete this task in just one day. Other HPC applications in the fields of healthcare and life sciences include: drug discovery and design, rapid cancer diagnosis, and molecular modeling, etc.
Financial service
Apart from automated trading and fraud detection, HPC also provides support for applications in Monte Carlo simulation and other risk analysis methods.
Government and Defense
In this field, two continuously growing HPC applications are weather forecasting and climate modeling, both of which involve processing vast amounts of historical meteorological data and changes in millions of daily climate-related data points. Other applications in the government and defense sectors include energy research and intelligence work.
Energy
In certain cases where there is overlap with the government and defense sectors, HPC applications related to energy include seismic data processing, reservoir simulation and modeling, geospatial analysis, wind simulation, and terrain mapping.
Solution
HPC Industry Solutions and Application Practices
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Typical/Our Successful Case Studies
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