On April 11th, the inaugural Supercomputing Internet Summit and the launch ceremony of the National Supercomputing Internet Platform were held in Tianjin. Hundreds of experts and representatives from ministries, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, provincial science and technology departments, and enterprises in the computing industry gathered to witness this historic moment.
Leaders from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), including Deputy Director-General of the Department of High-Tech Industry, were present, along with leading figures such as Academician Qian Depi, head of the overall expert group for the Supercomputing Internet and Vice President Wang Zhiqin from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT). Additionally, Vice Director Cao Zhennan from the National High-Performance Computing Engineering Technology Research Center and other department heads, academicians, and experts attended. They delivered speeches and thematic reports on topics such as sustainable development of computing power, the computing industry, and the digital economy.
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Officials from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's High-Tech Department expressed that the official launch of the National Supercomputing Internet will help alleviate the current imbalance between supply and demand of computing power, accelerate the formation of new productive forces, and provide solid support for the construction of Digital China and the development of the digital economy.
Qian Depai stated that leveraging artificial intelligence as an opportunity will drive collaborative innovation in hardware, algorithms, applications, and systems in the computing field. The official launch of the National Supercomputing Internet platform will further promote the empowerment of computing services to facilitate the development of various industries.
In recent years, China's computing infrastructure construction has achieved significant results. However, faced with the rapid development of technologies such as artificial intelligence, the whole society has higher requirements for computing power, and computing centers urgently need to break through the existing single-entity operating model. To address these challenges, construction of the National Supercomputing Internet officially commenced in April 2023.
During the construction process, the National Supercomputing Internet relies on an integrated system of computing power scheduling, data transmission, and ecological collaboration to achieve close connections among various parties in the industrial chain, such as computing power supply, software development, data trading, and model services, thereby building an advanced computing service environment characterized by marketization, internetization, and standardization.
Currently, there are over 200 service providers specializing in applications, data, models, etc., settled in the National Supercomputing Internet, offering more than 3200 products. These products cover cutting-edge digital innovation fields such as scientific computation, industrial simulation, and AI model training, meeting the society's demand for advanced computing services.
To further attract various service providers to settle in, the "National Supercomputing Internet Platform Support Empowerment Plan" was officially released during the meeting, aiming to drive the development of computing technology and computing power applications to a higher level.
During the meeting, a certificate award ceremony was held for the new members of the National Supercomputing Internet Alliance. Alliance members have played an indispensable role in the construction of the National Supercomputing Internet. So far, there are 128 alliance members, covering various fields of computing power such as national supercomputing, regional computing centers, supercomputing research institutions, computing power operations, network operations, application software, and technical services.
The "Supercomputing Internet White Paper" was officially released. Based on expert opinions from the Supercomputing Internet Alliance, the white paper, from a global perspective, outlines the development context and current status of supercomputing infrastructure both domestically and internationally. It clarifies the operational architecture, operation mechanism, and reference models of the National Supercomputing Internet platform, and proposes industry development initiatives in aspects such as technical breakthroughs, application demonstrations, standard formulation, talent cultivation, and data sharing for the Supercomputing Internet.
In addition to the launch ceremony of the National Supercomputing Internet, themed forums such as "Industry and Frontier Computing," "Intelligent Computing," and "Scientific Computing" were also held during the summit.
