Sun Ninghui (L), director of the ICT under CAS and Cao Lubao, mayor of Yancheng, unveil the country’s first high-throughput computing data center in the city in East China’s Jiangsu province. [Image: Economic Daily]

The Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced on Aug 1 that high-throughput computing data centers will be built in more than 10 cities and form a high-speed network to improve the country's data processing ability.

The first data center has been completed and put into use in Yancheng, East China's Jiangsu province.

The center has 1,000 compute and storage nodes and 30,000 processor cores. It can efficiently process 10 million video streams per second but consume only 750 kilowatts of power, according to Fan Dongrui, director of the ICT’s High-throughput Center and the president of SmartCo, a leader in high-throughput computing in China.

The data generated by people around the world is increasing at an alarming rate. A report predicted a tenfold increase in global data volumes from 2016 to 2025.

High-throughput computing, with strong data processing ability, can support hundreds of billions of new terminals and massive information processing, said Sun Ninghui, director of the institute.

The high-speed “information railway” composed of high-throughput data centers and high-speed dedicated line networks will provide abundant AI models as well as knowledge graph and application services to promote the landing of the digital economy in the future.

Sun makes a keynote speech at the launching ceremony of China’s first high-throughput computing data center in Yancheng, Jiangsu province. [Image: Economic Daily]

Source: Xinhua