What is the use of Tianhe-1 supercomputer?

Today, with the increasing popularity of the network, facing the access requests of tens of millions and hundreds of millions of users, the server must have strong data throughput and processing capacity. And this is the stage where supercomputers play a role. High-performance servers can handle tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of service requests per second, provide information and services needed by users in time, and ensure service quality.

weather forecast

The results of the weather forecast are also calculated by a supercomputer. At present, the world's highest level can be predicted for 8 days, and China's is 5 to 6 days. However, for medium and long-term forecasting, especially climate forecasting, supercomputers in the world can't meet the demand at present, because the calculation of weather forecasting needs the power of 10 18, that is, the speed of one trillion times per second. The age of the universe since BIGBANG is about 65.438+05 billion years, which is about one trillion seconds in seconds. If you have an operation every second, it is equivalent to counting from BIGBANG to now. It is recognized by the world that the meteorological and computer circles need to work hard for every day when the timeliness of weather forecast increases 10 year.

biopharmaceutics

It generally takes 10 to 15 years to develop a new drug, from compound screening to clinical trial. Using supercomputers and computer simulations, scientists can screen effective pharmaceutical compounds from hundreds of thousands or even millions of compounds in a short time, which not only saves a lot of money to buy real compounds, but also greatly shortens the cycle of drug research and development.

circuit design

In the design of integrated circuits, how to connect hundreds of millions and billions of transistors into required circuits and required performance on a chip with a square centimeter size depends on the help of supercomputers.

aircraft manufacturing

In the past, the shape design of Boeing aircraft had to be tested in wind tunnel for three years, but now the design cycle is shortened to six months after using supercomputer.

financial investment

Using supercomputers to calculate whether financial products are profitable can be accurate to a few minutes and seconds.