The supercomputing internet will give rise to a series of new mechanisms, models, and business forms, helping users to lower the barriers to use and promoting the competitive and cooperative development of computing power centers.

On April 11th, the national supercomputing internet was officially launched, which will help alleviate the current supply and demand contradiction of computing power, accelerate the formation of new quality productivity, and provide solid support for the construction of digital China and the development of the digital economy. In recent years, China has made significant achievements in the construction of computing power facilities. However, facing the rapid development of technologies such as artificial intelligence, society has put forward higher demands for computing power, and computing power centers urgently need to break through the existing single-entity operation model. To solve the above problems, the construction of the national supercomputing internet was officially initiated in April 2023.

Currently, more than 200 service providers of applications, data, models, etc., have settled in the national supercomputing internet and provided more than 3,200 products. These products cover cutting-edge digital innovation fields such as scientific computing, industrial simulation, AI model training, and can meet the society's demand for advanced computing services.

It is reported that the members of the national supercomputing internet consortium have reached 128, involving all fields of computing power such as national supercomputing, regional computing power centers, supercomputing research and development institutions, computing power operation, network operation, application software, and technical services.

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The significance of the layout and construction of the supercomputing internet is substantial.

The national supercomputing internet consortium is a social organization established in Tianjin on April 17, 2023. According to the plan, by the end of 2025, the national supercomputing internet will have formed an overall layout that is technologically advanced, innovative in model, high-quality in service, and has a complete ecosystem, effectively supporting the achievement of goals such as original scientific innovation, major engineering breakthroughs, high-quality economic development, and the improvement of people's quality of life, becoming the "expressway" supporting the construction of digital China.Supercomputing Internet is a national-level advanced computing infrastructure based on supercomputers and high-speed internet. It connects supercomputing centers distributed across various locations with high-speed networks, aggregates the software and hardware resources of multiple supercomputing centers, and supports the sharing and trading of computing power, data, software, applications, and other resources through the construction of a supercomputing resource sharing and trading platform, while providing users with a variety of computing power services.

As an advanced computing infrastructure, the Supercomputing Internet transforms the powerful computing capabilities provided by supercomputers into computing services and offers them to users in a standardized form.

Yang Guangwen, the director of the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, stated that the Supercomputing Internet, by establishing standards for resource access, sharing, and trading, builds a public welfare resource platform with the capability for resource sharing and trading. It can unify computing power, data, software, applications, and other resources from various sources such as supercomputing centers, cloud computing companies, and research institutions into supercomputing resources and integrate them to provide efficient and professional supercomputing services for scientific research, production, and daily life.

Compared to traditional supercomputing applications, the biggest feature of the Supercomputing Internet is the transformation from providing supercomputing computing power to providing supercomputing application services, which brings about a significant change in the application model of the Supercomputing Internet and greatly promotes the development of supercomputing and its applications.

However, the Supercomputing Internet still faces many challenges.

"The core goal of the Supercomputing Internet is to ensure a revolutionary shift from traditional computing power provision to service provision in supercomputing services," said Yang Guangwen. Only by achieving high-speed interconnection of resources can various supercomputing resources become an organic whole, possibly supporting the formation of industry or industrial consortiums oriented towards application fields, building application platforms and systems, and providing effective high-performance computing application services for application fields and related industries.

From a technical perspective, the Supercomputing Internet still needs to efficiently connect heterogeneous supercomputing resources from different supercomputing centers and resource providers through high-speed networks, and it needs to achieve sharing of various high-performance computing resources such as computing power, storage, and data, as well as effective scheduling of high-performance computing tasks.

In terms of talent resources, the construction and operation of the Supercomputing Internet involve many research directions in the field of computer science, such as high-performance computing, computer networks, parallel software, and distributed systems. It particularly cannot be separated from the talent of supercomputing center-based supercomputing operation management and technical development, and it requires a team of professionals with relevant application field and industry knowledge and experience.

From an industrial ecosystem perspective, the Supercomputing Internet is built on the foundation of supercomputing and high-speed networks, and its dependence on the related industrial ecosystem is very obvious. From the development and optimization of operating systems, basic software to parallel application software, these all affect the construction and operation of the Supercomputing Internet.

The Supercomputing Internet will give rise to a series of new mechanisms, new models, and new business forms, helping users to reduce the threshold of use, promoting the competitive development of computing power centers, and promoting close collaboration in the industrial ecosystem. The application value of the Supercomputing Internet is more reflected in the significant reduction of the threshold for using supercomputing, the self-improvement of the application software ecosystem, and the ubiquitous support for many application scenarios.