Date: Oct 13th, 2008
Author: CAS NEWS
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Under the theme of "policy measures for the development of high-performance computing in China," the 329th Session of the Xiangshan Science Conferences (XSSC) was held from 7 to 9 October in Beijing.
The meeting was co-chaired by HE Xiantu from the Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, ZHONG Wanxie from Dalian University of Technology, ZHANG Hanxin from the State Laboratory for Computational Fluid Dynamics and CUI Erjie from the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics.
More than 30 experts in various fields from 27 institutions across the country attended the conference and held in-depth discussions on the issue in this regard.
With the soaring development of science and technology, high-performance computing has become a tool with strategic significance for scientific research and engineering designing. Complementary with the traditional theoretical studies and lab experiments, this technology has greatly improved the capacity for scientific research, making remarkable contributions to the development of modern science, technology and engineering.
Thanks to the continuous efforts over the past several decades, China's high-performance computing has made sound progress with important achievements on its application in some major S&T fields. Compared with developed countries, however, China still has a long way to go in this aspect. Especially, there is an acute lack of research and development of high-end application software for numerical simulation, which hampers its capacity upgrading for indigenous innovation and the development of key technologies for mega-engineering projects.
At the meeting, Prof. He Xiantu delivered a key-note report on China high-performance computing: current situation, challenges and future development. And the participants held discussions focusing on such topics as high-performance computing: demands from, and application in, the national major projects and basic research; key scientific issues and bottle-necks for the development of high-performance computing; and suggestions for the development of high-performance computing.
