NSCCJN boasts high computing performance

The Cheeloo-1 built by the National Supercomputing Center in Jinan (NSCCJN) recently topped the 10 Node Research IO500 List, which was announced at the ISC High Performance 2023 held in Hamburg, Germany. The Cheeloo-1 had a test score exceeding 130,000, a new record on the IO500 list.

"The international TOP500 competition focuses on computing power, but the actual effectiveness of computing power also depends on storage. Therefore, the speed of storage IO, meaning input and output, is extremely important. Topping the IO500 list means that the performance of our storage system has reached the highest international level, and this is of great significance," said Pan Jingshan, deputy director of the NSCCJN.

NSCCJN's topping of the IO500 list will provide solid technological support to the interdependence of three key evaluation indexes for computing performance – computing speed, or computing power, storage capacity, and network performance.

NSCCJN's topping of the IO500 list shows that it can be widely used in the practice of digital economic development.

NSCCJN's topping of the IO500 list is a new name card for science and technology innovation achievements, and shows that Jinan and Shandong province are seizing new opportunities in the digital economy.

The NSCCJN, which was inaugurated in Jinan in October 2011, is the birthplace of China's first petaflop supercomputing system, which was built entirely with domestically made processors. China is the third country in the world, following the United States and Japan, that can build a petaflop using its own CPU.

To date, Jinan's server production and sales are ranked first in China and second in the world. The city's production and sales of artificial intelligence servers is the highest globally and accounts for more than 50 percent share of the country's AI computing market.