Shangai supercomputer centre helps companies in China
Dresden18 June 2008
Shangai Supercomputer Centre is present with a booth in Dresden. The told Primeur it is their first time on an in International supercomputer exhibition. They did choose Dresden because it is much easier to com from China to Europe than go from China to the USA. Shangai Supercomputer Centre is in Dresden to show what they are doing in China and to talk to supercomputing people from all over the world. What are they doing in China? The centre is one of the two large supercomputer centres in China. It is also a main nod in China Grid. Apart from serving the scientific community, they support a number of companies which need supercomputer power, be it continuously or only for peak production. The customers are the usual list of engineering, automotive and the like. Typically there a cycles in a companies involvement. Either they typically have cyclic computing needs or they develop and test new appliaction usages together with Shangai Supercomputer Centre and run it on the centre's supercomputer. After some time they buy their own additional supercomputer power and run the applications there. But after a while new developments bring them back to the Shangai Supercomputer Centre.
