Research trend of large-scale supercomputers and applications from the TOP500 and Gordon Bell Prize

作     者：Weimin ZHENG Weimin ZHENG

作者机构：Department of Computer Science and Technology Tsinghua University 

出 版 物：《Science China(Information Sciences)》 (中国科学:信息科学(英文版))

年 卷 期：2020年第63卷第7期

页      面：128-141页

核心收录：

学科分类：0810[工学-信息与通信工程] 0808[工学-电气工程] 08[工学] 081201[工学-计算机系统结构] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：TOP500 Gordon Bell Prize large-scale supercomputer 

摘      要：China is playing an increasingly important role in international supercomputing. In highperformance computing domain, there are two famous awards: The TOP500 list for the fastest 500 supercomputers in the world and the Gordon Bell Prize for the best HPC(high-performance computing)applications. China has been awarded in both TOP500 list and Gordon Bell Prize. In this paper, we review the supercomputers in the latest TOP500 list and seven Gordon Bell Prize applications to show the research trend of the large-scale supercomputers and applications. The first trend we observe is that heterogeneous architectures are widely used in the construction of supercomputing systems. The second trend is that artificial intelligence applications are expected to become one of the main stream applications of supercomputing.The third trend is that applying heterogeneous systems to complex scientific simulation applications will be more difficult.