What is the purpose of the "Tianhe-1" supercomputer?

As the Internet becomes increasingly popular today, facing tens of millions or hundreds of millions of user access requests, servers must have strong data throughput and processing capabilities. And this is where supercomputers come into play. High-performance servers can handle tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of service requests per second, providing the information and services users need in a timely manner and ensuring service quality.

Weather Forecast

The results of weather forecast are also calculated by supercomputers. At present, the highest level in the world can predict 8 days, and in my country it is 5 to 6 days. But for medium- and long-term forecasts, especially climate forecasts, the current supercomputers in the world are still unable to meet the demand, because the calculation of weather forecasts requires 10 to the 18th power, which is a speed of one million trillion times per second. The age of the universe from the Big Bang to the present is approximately 15 billion years, which when converted into seconds is approximately one million trillion seconds. If one calculation is performed every second, it is equivalent to counting from the Big Bang to the present. It is a generally accepted saying in the world that for every day added to the effectiveness of weather forecasts, the meteorological and computer communities need to work hard for 10 years.

Biopharmaceuticals

It generally takes 10 to 15 years to develop a new drug, from compound screening to clinical trials. Using supercomputers and computer simulations, scientists can screen out effective pharmaceutical compounds from hundreds of thousands or even millions of compounds in a short period of time. This not only saves a lot of money in purchasing real compounds, but also greatly shortens the time required to purchase them. The drug development cycle.

Circuit design

Integrated circuit design, how to connect hundreds of millions or billions of transistors on a chip of one square centimeter to form the required circuit and required performance, requires Designed with the help of supercomputers.

Aircraft Manufacturing

The shape design of Boeing aircraft used to take three years of experiments in a wind tunnel for a model. Now with the use of supercomputers, the design cycle has been shortened to six months.

Financial Investment

Financial product investment uses supercomputers to calculate whether it is profitable, and it can be accurate to minutes and seconds.