A signing ceremony was held in Beijing on Sept 29 for the strategic framework agreement on establishing the Yangtze River Delta supercomputing industry base in the Nantong Economic and Technological Development Area (NETDA).

This marks the establishment of the first supercomputing center in Jiangsu by the Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The supercomputing industry base consists of two parts: the supercomputing center and the Yangtze River Delta Integrated Computing Power Economic Research Institute. The first phase of the project involves a total investment of 1.2 billion yuan ($169.81 million), aiming to build a high-performance supercomputing center with a planned capacity of 2,000 PFlops. This means the center will be capable of executing 20 trillion floating-point operations per second, a crucial metric for measuring the performance of a computer or computing system.

Construction on the project is scheduled to commence in November, with operations expected to begin in June 2025.

A signing ceremony is held for the Yangtze River Delta supercomputing industry base on Sept 9. [Photo/Nantong Daily]