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solution’ including public and private clouds, services, infrastructure and platform as a service (IAAS and PAAS), servers and storage. Its Tianjin manufacturing facility is the largest server factory in Asia. According to Dr Bin Li, vice-manager of the
company’s HPC products division, it can offer a complete range of compute nodes and servers for HPC, with Mellanox interconnects. Te company has developed its own distributed parallel storage system, ParaStor200. It also has its own integrated soſtware for system management and job scheduling, Gridview HPC Suite. Te system management aspect offers
Sugon’s liquid cooled technology on display at ISC High Performance
among the data centre and cloud computing providers. It is also building a sales channel for targeting Government, telecoms, and finance in Russia.
Sugon opens up for international expansion ‘We’re ready. It’s time.’ International expansion is the next step for Sugon, according to its vice- president Lei Wang, in an interview with Scientific Computing World in Frankfurt. ‘We should not consider ourselves a local Chinese vendor any more. We have confidence in our products and in our business.’ But to be successful, he continued; the
company must transform itself: ‘We can see that we need to open ourselves up’. And it will not just sell its products, but invest overseas as well, forging partnerships and setting up an HPC centre. According to Wang, the purpose of such a centre is not just to showcase the company’s technology, but also to train engineers and show that it can offer support that is level with that expected in developed countries. Sugon’s expansion strategy, therefore, is two-fold: ‘Open and Invest’. Te confidence in the company and its
products shines through: ‘We are the leading local vendor in China and have been number one in HPC for six years consecutively. We see a lot of competitors benefiting from the international market. Technically, our products are mature enough to do that too,’ he said.
Government kicks its companies to export Like Inspur, Sugon acknowledges the role of the Chinese Government in supporting its export drive, expressed with a light touch of humour: ‘Te Government is helping local vendors to grow Sugon’s headquarters building in Beijing
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and “go outside” – kicking us out is Government policy!’ Sugon was floated on the Shanghai stock exchange in 2014, though the Government via the Chinese Academy of Sciences remains the largest shareholder. With the benefit of its years of technical
expertise in the field of high-performance computing, Dawning is gradually changing within China from a hardware supplier to a cloud computing service provider. It has been involved in planning the layout of the national cloud computing ‘blue map’ and has built up dozens of city cloud computing centres, including those in Chengdu, Wuxi, Nanjing, and Baotou. Te entire project should be complete within the next three years. Like Inspur, high-performance computing is only part of the mix for Sugon. It offers a ‘total
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visualisation of the computing centre, monitoring of the cluster, performance analysis – with a ‘heat map’ to display node status and performance intuitively making it easy to find bottlenecks as well as idle resources – and one-click cluster configuration. Te scheduling side offers policies for job scheduling, checkpointing/restart, as well as real-time monitoring of jobs and resources, along with accountancy modules to set rates flexibly for users groups and take account of soſtware licences.
Sugon’s path to exascale In 2015, it started mass manufacture of its own design of liquid-cooled blades. Tese are being used in a new ‘Earth system simulator’, part of a project launched by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and which Sugon was promoting on its stand at ISC High Performance. Te simulator will have both a HPC and a
visualisation platform and is intended to produce short term climate predictions and forecast air quality in key regions of China. Te system design is that of a ‘Silicon Cube’ which consists of many liquid-cooled blades connected up into supernodes and then integrated into cabinets called ‘Cubes’. A distinctive aspect of the design is the 3D Torus interconnection network. Sugon sees the Silicon Cube architecture as its pathway to exascale computing. l
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