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China has developed and launched a prototype of an exascale computing machine, which is touted as the next generation supercomputer, China Daily reports.
“We expect to build the exascale computer in the second half of 2020 or the first half of 2021,” said Yang Meihong, director of the National Supercomputing Center in Jinan. “The Sunway exascale computer prototype is very much like a concept car that can run on road.”
The Sunway exascale computer prototype was developed by the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology (NRCPC), the National Supercomputing Center, east China’s Shandong Province, and the Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology in Qingdao.
Another prototype exascale supercomputer, Tianhe-3, passed tests on July 22. Its final version is expected to come out in 2020. The two prototypes consolidates China’s successful development of a next-generation supercomputer.
Supercomputers are changing people’s lives in fields such as weather forecast, calculation of ocean currents, financial data analysis, high-end equipment manufacturing, and car collision simulation, said Pan Jingshan, deputy director of the National Supercomputing Center.
He said that the new-generation supercomputers will provide strong support to scientific research in more fields.
The United States and Japan are also speeding up the development of an exascale supercomputer, expecting to unveil it in as early as 2021.
