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.