Powered by several individual supercomputing centers, BGI has a total peak performance up to 102 T flops, plus 20TB memory and 10PB storage. Among these sites, the two located in Shenzhen and Hong Kong are ranked 1st and 2nd domestic bioinformatics supercomputing centers, respectively, which provide stable and efficient resource to storage, processing and analysis of massive bioinformatics data. The following chart shows the supercomputing clusters deployed by BGI in mainland, and corresponding performance.
Table 1BGI cluster performance
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Shenzhen
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Hong Kong
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Beijing
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Hangzhou
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Total
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Number of Processors
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7,236
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2,400
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300
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64
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10,000
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Memory Capacity
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14.5 TB
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4.7 TB
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500 GB
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300 GB
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20 TB
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Global Storage
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7.08 PB
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2.8 PB
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110 TB
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13 TB
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10 PB
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Peak Performance
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75 T flops
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25 T flops
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1.5 T flops
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0.5 T flops
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102 T flops
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With the development of genetic techniques, the demand on storage and computing power increase 10 times every 12-18 months, which is far beyond the famous Moore’s Law. BGI invest intensively on hardware as bioinformatics data explodes. Supercomputer system with 1Pflops peak performance will be installed and ready for service in 2010, which setup a milestone for biotech researchers worldwide.
Figure2 Trends of Computing & Storage capability growth
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