China's homegrown Sunway TaihuLight is the first supercomputer of its kind to only use domestically-made parts. [Photo/Xinhua]
China's Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer, installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, has provided support for over 12 million projects since December 2015.
In 2017, Sunway helped Wuxi-based electric power company Envision Group choose a suitable location and orientation for taking full advantage of wind energy in a complex-terrain environment
The supercomputer also helped Wuxi National Digital Film Industrial Park, or Wuxi Studios, become an important post-production center for a new generation.
Every frame of special effects in a movie needs thousands of hours of computing, and the supercomputer operates at a speed of 93 petaflops/s (quadrillions of calculations per second), with a peak speed of 125.4 petaflops/s.
The supercomputer can be used in cloud computing and big data, highly efficient weather forecasts, massive measurements for wind tunnels, earthquake monitoring and geological research, medical care, information security services, intelligent urban services, and advancing the next generation of artificial intelligence.
Liu Zhao, director of the Parallel Optimization Department of the National Supercomputing Center, said the center has built several industrial platforms to help enterprises innovate and is still figuring out how to provide more convenient and cheaper services to companies.
Sunway TaihuLight, developed by the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology (NRCPC), broke the Guinness World Record for fastest supercomputer in June 2016.
