Shanghai Supercomputer Center (SSC; ), founded on December 2000, was invested by Shanghai Municipal Government. With its world-class facilities and quality services, Shanghai Supercomputer Center offers high performance computing, technical support and technical consulting services to wide range of customers from scientific research, public utilities services, to industrial and engineering. Till now, SSC has over 350 users from 27 provinces across the whole China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

, and covers 20 different fields and industries, which includes: weather forecast, drug design, life science, auto design, new material, civil engineering, physics, chemistry, aerospace, etc..

During the past decade, SSC has introduced three HPC systems, two of which were ranked #10 in TOP500

TOP500

The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful known computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year...

 list in 2004 and 2009 separately; they are DAWNING 4000A (10TFlops) and DAWNING

Dawning Information Industry

Dawning Information Industry is a supercomputer manufacturer in the People's Republic of China. Its Dawning 4000A and Dawning 5000A clusters were both ranked tenth in June 2004 and November 2008 TOP500 lists respectively...

 5000A (Magic Cube, 230TFlops) that is operated by SSC currently.

See also

• Dawning Information Industry
  Dawning Information Industry
  Dawning Information Industry is a supercomputer manufacturer in the People's Republic of China. Its Dawning 4000A and Dawning 5000A clusters were both ranked tenth in June 2004 and November 2008 TOP500 lists respectively...
  
  
• Computing platform
• Supercomputer centers in China
  Supercomputing in China
  The People's Republic of China operates a number of supercomputer centers which hold world records in speed.The origins of these centers go back to 1989, when the State Planning Commission, the State Science and Technology Commission and the World Bank jointly launched a project to develop...