Today, with the official opening of the high-performance computing center donated by Yang Yuanqing, an alumnus of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1981 and the chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group, this set of high-performance computing equipment was named "Siyuan No. 1", which can calculate up to 60 trillion times per second, and its computing power is the 1st in Chinese universities and the 132nd in the global HPC TOP500.
"This high-performance computing center with the strongest computing power in Chinese universities and 60 trillion operations per second was officially opened, which means that it can finally officially serve the basic scientific research and major projects of its alma mater, and Chituma met General Guan and made the best use of it, and my happiness at this moment is no less than when I got the admission letter of Jiaotong University." Yang Yuanqing said at the unveiling ceremony.
On April 10 this year, during the 125th week celebration of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Yang Yuanqing announced in his speech at the school celebration ceremony that he would personally invest 100 million yuan to build a first-class green water-cooled high-performance computing center for his alma mater using Lenovo's most advanced products and technologies.
Yang Yuanqing, chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group, exchanged views with Shanghai Jiaotong masters and students
The Lee Jeong-do Institute was established at the instigation of the famous physicist Lee Jeong-do. In December 2014, Li Zhengdao wrote a letter to the central leadership, proposing to establish a world-class research institute in China with reference to the Bohr Institute, which has a huge impact on the development of world science, to attract a group of the world's top scientists, form an academic atmosphere of free exploration, train a group of top scientists belonging to China, and promote the major development of physics and its interdisciplinary research.
On November 30, 2016, under the care of party and state leaders, with the support of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Shanghai Municipal Government, the Li Zhengdao Research Institute was established at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Among the first scientists to be introduced was the 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Frank Wilczek. In September 2017, Frank Wilczek was appointed as the first director of the Lee Jeong-do Institute. On April 7, 2018, Li Zhengdao became the honorary director of the Li Zhengdao Research Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. On December 3, 2021, Zhang Jie, former president of Shanghai Jiaotong University and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was officially appointed as the new director of the Li Zhengdao Research Institute.
Director Zhang Jie, who has just taken up his new post, said: "The Li Zhengdao Research Institute carries the high hopes of the party and state leaders. At this stage, the competition at the level of scientific research is largely a competition of the level of computing power. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to Yang Yuanqing, an alumnus of the Class of '81, for his generous donations to Shanghai Jiaotong University, for the future development of the Li Zhengdao Research Institute, and for helping China's original innovation capabilities."
Lin Zhongqin, president of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, also said, "The green water-cooled high-performance computer group that ranks first in the computing power of Chinese universities has landed in li zhengdao research institute, which is full of yuanqing xuechang's ambition of becoming a strong country in science and technology and serving the country in the industry, and also shows the vision of school and enterprise cooperation and creating first-class", "I hope that this time I will join hands with Lenovo Group to jointly promote the development of the industry and economy and society and achieve win-win cooperation.".
Help Shanghai Jiaotong University achieve the strongest "computing power" of Chinese universities
The Yang Yuanqing Scientific Computing Center of Shanghai Jiaotong University is located in the experimental building of the Li Zhengdao Research Institute in Zhangjiang Science City. The experimental building of Li Zhengdao Research Institute was officially opened on December 3, 2021, and has gathered a number of research teams led by academic masters, attracting a group of young talents with vitality in scientific and technological innovation, and carrying out original basic research in a number of cutting-edge fields around the research directions of particle and nuclear physics, astronomy and astrophysics, and quantum basic science, and the construction of experimental platforms is steadily advancing. And the scientific research in these fields is precisely the one that needs the support of high-performance computing the most.
As the world's no. 1 provider of high-performance computing solutions, Lenovo has topped the global high-performance computer TOP 500 list for eight consecutive times and topped the total share of China's HPC TOP 100 annual number seven times. Lenovo's warm water cooling technology has also become a model of green and low carbon in the industry.
"I think it would be perfect to give such a gift to my alma mater." Yang Yuanqing said in his speech.
At the unveiling ceremony, Tong Fuyao, senior vice president of Lenovo Group and president of Lenovo Enterprise Technology Group, introduced that "Siyuan No. 1" condenses the latest technological achievements and construction experience of Lenovo's green, low-carbon and high computing power, and at the same time reflects the global excellent technical level:
The total computing power of the "Siyuan-1" high-performance computer is 60 quadrillion times per second (double precision). In the list of the world's TOP500 high-performance computers released in November this year, the computing power of "Siyuan No. 1" ranked 132nd, surpassing that of International Famous Universities such as Harvard and Cambridge. In the list of China's top 100 high-performance computing, it ranks 12th, and Chinese universities rank first in high-performance computing.
In addition to the first computing power of Chinese universities, "Siyuan No. 1" also has three major technical characteristics: ultra-high computing density and power consumption density, green energy saving, and energy recyclability.
In terms of computing density, the computing density of "Siyuan No. 1" is 5 times that of the general data center, and the area of the required computer room is less than 1/10 of the general data center; in terms of green energy saving, the average PUE (energy utilization efficiency) of China's data center is 1.9, and the "Siyuan No. 1" adopts the fifth generation of warm water cooling technology, with a PUE value of 1.1, which can save 42% of electricity and carbon dioxide emissions compared with the traditional air-cooled cooling scheme; in terms of energy utilization, waste heat recovery technology is used, and waste heat generated during computer computing. It can be used for winter heating in the spherical hall of the institute, hot water heating in the canteen kitchen, dehumidification in the basement, and air conditioning temperature control in the laboratory, achieving an additional carbon offset of 950 tons per year.
Representatives of teachers and students from the Lee Jung-do Research Institute, the School of Physics and Astronomy, the School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering and the School of Life Science and Technology are full of expectations for the opening of the "Yang Yuanqing Scientific Computing Center", and they said that the improvement and leap of scientific research computing power will give researchers the opportunity to explore and try various new things, continue to fail and try again, and help accelerate the solution of the thorny problems facing all mankind, including climate change, epidemic threats, energy crises and so on.
Drinking water thinks of the source, 3 years 200 million to help the alma mater scientific and technological innovation
Yang Yuanqing said at the unveiling ceremony that as an alumnus of Jiaotong University, he and his old classmates have always paid attention to and supported the development of their alma mater. As early as 2015, he donated 10 million yuan to the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Education Development Foundation and set up the "Yang Yuanqing Education Fund" to fund outstanding students in the Department of Computer Science and outstanding young teachers in the professional field.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Lenovo Group
After the unveiling ceremony, Lenovo Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, according to Qiao Jian, senior vice president, chief strategy officer and chief marketing officer of Lenovo Group, Lenovo Group plans to spend 200 million yuan in the next three years to work together with Shanghai Jiaotong University in the three fields of scientific research, talent training and new technology incubation.
It is reported that 100 million yuan will be used for the research and development of new computing, new equipment, new materials and new energy and the talent training plan of Jiaotong University. Lenovo Group and Jiaotong University will jointly set up a special fund for industry-university-research cooperation to provide special fund funding for scientific research projects declared by Jiaotong masters and students. The two sides also plan to establish a joint research and development platform to carry out joint research and development of core technology and engineering issues, as well as the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and the declaration of major projects.
Lenovo will also work closely with Jiaotong University to cultivate talents with comprehensive quality and innovation ability with comprehensive quality and innovation ability, focusing on cultivating the comprehensive quality and employment competitiveness of Jiaotong University students, and the two sides will jointly cultivate professional master's/doctoral students in the fields of virtual reality, machine vision, and logical computing. And actively support and sponsor Jiaotong masters and students to participate in major scientific and technological innovation competitions at home and abroad, the two sides can form a "Jiaotong University Lenovo Team" to participate in the Sino-US Maker Competition, China International Internet + Competition and other famous scientific and technological events at home and abroad.
Another 100 million yuan will be used for the incubation of new technologies, Lenovo plans to set up the "Lenovo-Jiaotong University Venture Fund", through advanced market-oriented means, to provide incubation assistance, venture capital and employment support for Jiaotong University's entrepreneurial innovation projects, and explore and build an innovation and entrepreneurship cooperation mechanism with Jiaotong University, promote the transformation and industrialization of Jiaotong University's scientific and technological achievements, and provide a complete set of entrepreneurial incubation and investment services for Jiaotong University's entrepreneurial projects.
Lenovo will also open up global resources to help Jiaotong University transform scientific and technological achievements, and provide professional innovation and entrepreneurship support for Jiaotong University in terms of management, talent, productization, industrial resources and internationalization, including: selecting entrepreneurial mentors, providing entrepreneurial enterprise incubation guidance, as well as transformation of technological achievements, and support for the evaluation of entrepreneurial enterprises entering the park.
Over the past few years, Lenovo's annual R&D investment has been more than 10 billion yuan, and it will double its R&D investment in the next three years, reaching 20 billion yuan by 2023. Recently, Lenovo has announced that it will recruit 12,000 hardcore scientific and technological talents worldwide. In the future, Lenovo will take a part of the increased R & D investment and cooperate with universities and research institutes, while promoting scientific research institutions to achieve innovative breakthroughs and technological breakthroughs, but also to create a better innovation soil and innovation environment for the enterprise itself, and cultivate more innovative talents.
"Siyuan Spirit is not only my feelings for my alma mater, but also the mission and responsibility of Lenovo to society and the country. We will work together to contribute more to the development of national science and technology and industry. Yang Yuanqing said in his speech.
Walking through the door of Yang Yuanqing Computing Center of Shanghai Jiaotong University, you will see such a text on the wall: Science and technology are prosperous, the nation is prosperous, science and technology is strong, the country is strong, and it is expected that this scientific computing center will gather wisdom, benefit scientific research and education, serve as a teacher of innovation, and help progress and prosperity! Serving the country's innovation, progress and prosperity with science and technology is the mission of "Siyuan No. 1" and the spiritual pursuit of Shanghai Jiaotong University alumni from generation to generation.