Overview

The Guangzhou Sub-centre for Supercomputing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (here in after referred to as the ‘Supercomputing Centre’) relies on the Biomedical Data and Supercomputing Centre of the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (hereinafter referred to as the ‘GIBH’) for its construction and operation.


The total area of the supercomputing centre is 117m2, including office area of 57m2, machine room building area of 60m2, 12 water-cooled column cabinets, and a total of 117 nodes have been deployed for data computing. Existing parallel storage resources 7PB, aggregation capacity of more than 200TFlops, with 100M high-speed technology network bandwidth and 1000M China Mobile dedicated bandwidth, for the management of data resources and open and shared services to provide a highly reliable and stable infrastructure operating environment.


More than 1,000 application software for cellular genealogy, genealogy technology and equipment, development and regenerative medicine, digital biomedicine, pharmaceutical innovation and other multidisciplinary fields are centrally deployed to carry out large-scale scientific computation, data simulation, experimental validation and related data visualisation services.

Services

We provide hardware and software services for supercomputing to users inside and outside the Guangzhou Healthcare Institute for scientific research and teaching. Diversified hardware configurations of supercomputer systems, equipped with many open-source and commercial computing software, and full-time technical staff to provide users with a full range of support and services through multiple channels, such as telephone, e-mail and instant messaging, to provide users with a good supercomputing environment.

Resources

·One-stop data analysis services

We have gathered thousands of bio-multi-omics and innovative drug analysis toolkits, and more than 50 commonly used visualisation application script toolkits in the field, to build a cellular mapping data mining platform, which can carry out research on multi-omics of genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, single-cell sequencing and so on. 

·Digital Twin 3D Visualisation

The Supercomputing Centre is committed to the independent development of advanced visualisation tools, through the use of WebGL, WebGPU, Threejs and other computer graphics libraries, to achieve the rapid construction of 3D dynamic scenes on the Web, 3D interaction, animation rendering, as well as efficient management and scheduling of resources and other functions. The Supercomputing Centre is equipped with the technical capability of 3D modelling, and is able to use Blender and other design software to draw 3D digital models of site parks, buildings, equipment and instruments. At the same time, it is able to use generative artificial intelligence technology to build complex and diverse organ, tissue, cellular and subcellular structure models. The Supercomputing Centre uses the above tools and technical capabilities to serve the development of digital human interaction applications and the construction of the Digital Twin Intelligence Institute.

·LLM Applications and Artificial Intelligence

Supercomputing Centre integrates and deploys a variety of multimodal big models, such as Llama 3.1, ChatGPT, GPT4, Qwen2, etc., which can be selected by users according to their preferences, providing users with one-stop AI services.The Supercomputing Centre has carried out application development based on the big models, hoping to assist the various processes of scientific research and management through the big models, and serve the construction of the digital management system with the core of the business system.

People
History

1.Establishment

2.Infrastructure Construction

3.Leading Group

4.Tech Team

2011

1.Requirement Survey

2.Feasibility Report

3.Develop Expert Consensus

2012

1.Qualification Application

2.Deployment and Initiation of the First Batch of High-Performance Computing and Storage Equipment

2013

1.Qualification for the Construction of the "Guangzhou Branch of the Supercomputing Center of CAS"

2.Operation of the Biopharmaceutical Node at the "Luogang Branch of Guangzhou Supercomputing Center"

3.Official Inauguration of the "Guangzhou Branch of the Supercomputing Center"

2014

1.Installation and Operation of the Second Batch of High-Performance Equipment

2.Advanced High-Performance Computing Application Training

3.Guangzhou Branch of the Supercomputing Center of CAS Acceptance Meeting

2015

1.Supporting the Construction of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biopharmaceutical Computing

2016

1.The department name is changed to the Biomedical Data and Supercomputing Center

2021
Acknowledging Support

The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the Guangzhou Branch of the Supercomputingcenter of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Contact
People
Email
Address
CHEN Zhaoming
hpc@gibh.ac.cn
Room M101, No. 190 Kaiyuan Avenue, Guangzhou Science Park,Luogang District, Guangzhou