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On March 11, 2012, Chen Jianhua, Mayor of Guangzhou, headed a delegation to Changsha, Hunan Province. The delegation visited leaders of the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT),exchanging ideas on matters concerning jointly developing the new-generation supercomputer system. Hopefully, the pilot unit of the supercomputer will be able to go into operation at Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) in April and Guangzhou Supercomputer Center (GSC)will be inaugurated simultaneously, said Chen, adding Guangzhou will, together with all quarters, build and apply the center properly to promote economic transformation and benefit people's livelihood.
Guangzhou will strive to put into operation the pilot system of the supercomputer in April and inaugurate GSC at SYSU simultaneously, with the aim of building a world leading supercomputer center by late 2015. According to sources, the new-generation high-performance computer system, jointly developed by NUDT and cooperative parties in Guangdong, will be named "Tianhe II", with the aim of making it run more than 100,000 trillion calculations per second by late 2015, more than 10 times the speed of currently the world's fastest "K" system of Japan and more than20 times the speed of currently China's fastest supercomputer in Tianjin. Then, "Tianhe II" will become a world top supercomputer.Now, SYSU and the Guangzhou Municipal Government are working on GSC siting and construction plan selection. According to a person in charge of Bureau of Science and Information Technology of Guangzhou Municipality, the total investment will amount to some RMB 2.4billion yuan, including the cost of computer R &D and the cost of civil construction.
In the future, GSC will become a storage and control center for urban information service and data service, the expert said. After the supercomputer center is established, the video taken by surveillance cameras in the city may be stored for long periods of time without being destroyed regularly. Mass data, such as personal data on social security, medical security and endowment insurance, can also be stored in GSC.