The ChinaHPC supercomputing project located in Horinger New Area, Hohhot [Photo/hlgena.gov.cn]

The ChinaHPC supercomputing project is to be developed in Horinger New Area in Hohhot, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, following an investment agreement signed by the new area's management committee and Beijing ChinaHPC Technology Co (also known as ChinaHPC), according to local media reports.

The project will become the fourth supercomputing application platform in Horinger.

Based in Beijing, ChinaHPC is a global advanced supercomputer research and development, manufacturing and operations company, providing advanced supercomputers and first-class service support for government, industry and academia.

The project in Horinger will build a set of supercomputer systems with the integrated service capabilities of high-performance computing, big data analysis and artificial intelligence (AI), and support different application directions, to meet the AI needs of domestic and foreign companies and the large-scale deep computing service requirements of enterprises and scientific research institutes.

At the same time, it can be combined with traditional industries and major industry projects to help traditional industries change their operation patterns and improve production and operation efficiency, allowing users to obtain professional and high-quality supercomputing resources with the lowest expenditure and time cost. 

The ChinaHPC supercomputing project located in Horinger New Area, Hohhot [Photo/hlgena.gov.cn]

At present, Inner Mongolia Zhongke Supercomputing Technology Co has been founded by the project, and the system is currently being deployed and debugged. The system is planned to be online and providing services this year.

In recent years, Horinger has supported the construction of a new generation of information infrastructure by relying on its industrial base advantages, and has accelerated the introduction of various big data and cloud computing infrastructure projects.

Three major operators - China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom - have established the largest cloud computing data center bases in Horinger, and successively introduced enterprises including Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Inspur and Sinopec, as well as the data storage business of national ministries.

This has formed a big data industry chain that includes core businesses such as data storage, cleaning and processing, and related businesses such as electronic information manufacturing, software and information services, service outsourcing, e-commerce, big data finance, and AI innovation incubation.