Abstract:

In recent years, when five national supercomputing centers are established, more and more attentions have been put on the operation cost rather than the acquisition cost in the field of high performance computer. With the survey of the technology and the trend of the development and application, the paper analyzes the high performance computer system, chips, other hardware facilities, and the soft environment of supercomputing center, and also discusses the problems about the sustainable development of supercomputing center in the future.

Key words: high performance computer;hardware system;soft environment;supercomputing center;co-design