A key national supercomputing project in Jinan, East China's Shandong Province, that will house some of the world's fastest supercomputers finished the construction of major building on Sunday.
China is rapidly upgrading its supercomputer infrastructure to regain leadership after the U.S. took top spot for the fastest supercomputer in 2018.
It took only 108 days to build and fit out the major areas of the main building in the Science and Technology Park project of the National Supercomputing Center, according to a report by cnr.cn on Monday.
The building will house an exascale-class supercomputer, the report said.
China is expecting to win back the first place on the top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers this year, with the ongoing development of three exascale-class supercomputers - the Sunway, the Shuguang and the Tianhe-3.
These supercomputers will be able to carry out more than 1 billion billion calculations a second, which would beat the U.S. Summit supercomputer. The Summit took first place in 2018.
A Sunway prototype exascale-class computer that started operating at the national supercomputer center in August 2018 has expanded more than 30 items of applications in 12 fields, and its key devices such as processors, network chipsets, storage and management systems are all domestically developed, according to the National Supercomputing Center in Jinan, Xinhua reported in March.
"The research and application of Sunway prototype computers have fully validated the core technology of exascale-class computing, which has paved the way for the next generation of supercomputer development," said Pan Jingshan, deputy director of the National Supercomputing Center in Jinan, according to Xinhua.
