The brain of China, National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin

The National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin [Photo provided to exploringtianjin.com]

The Tianjin National Supercomputer Center, the first supercomputer center at the national level, was approved in May 2009 by the Ministry of Science and Technology. It has a top-ranked Tianhe-I supercomputer and combines supercomputing, cloud computing and big data.

The center is the best supercomputing center in China serving scientific research institutions, universities, enterprises and government with high-end information technology services.

The Tianhe-I supercomputer [Photo provided to exploringtianjin.com]

Tianhe-I is s supercomputer capable of an Rmax of 2.5 petaflops. Tianhe-I works out over 1,400 projects, and can finish more than 10,000 scientific computational tasks, per day.

By using the Tianh-I supercomputing platform the Tianjin National Supercomputer Center has served over 1,600 enterprises in the space and aeronautics industry, climatic variation, petroleum and seismic surveys, biological medicine, genetic technology, nuclear power development, new energy and brain science.

Tianhe-I has been an important supportive platform in drug development, providing virtual drug screening and speeding up research and development of new medicines against HIV and epilepsy.

The Tianjin National Supercomputer Center is cooperating with the National University of Defense Technology to create the new exascale supercomputer Tianhe-III, which is expected to be put into operation in 2020.

The computing power of the Tianhe-III will be 200 times stronger than that of Tianhe-I. Tianhe-III will have the highest rate in China and will feature an independent chip, independent operation system and independent calculation computing environment.

Tianhe-III will improve China's core competitiveness in industrial fields and international influence.