National High Performance Computing Centre (Shenzhen), Shenzhen University acquires Numascale shared memory system.

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Singapore 17th November 2014

National High Performance Computing Centre (Shenzhen), Shenzhen University, a leading research institute  in P. R. China,  has acquired a Numascale shared memory system  for high performance in-memory computing and big data analytics.

“Numascale shared memory system provides us larger global memory”, says Associate Professor Qiuming Luo, National High Performance Computing Centre (Shenzhen) , “Having large amounts of data in memory allows us to speed up our computations by many-folds and enable us to solve difficult big data analytics problem in much shorter time.”

“We are proud to be a partner with National High Performance Computing Centre (Shenzhen). China is  a key player in Big Data Analytics and Exascale Computing. National High Performance Computing Center (Shenzhen) is one of the key driving engines of both Exascale Computing and Big Data Analytics in China.  ” says Morten Toverud, CEO of Numascale. “We look forward to further collaboration with National High Performance Computing Centre (Shenzhen) to exploit the scale-out and scale-up capabilities of Numascale
system.”

About National High Performance Computing Centre (Shenzhen), Shenzhen
University.
National High Performance Computing Centre(Shenzhen) is one of the leading High Performance Computing Centres in China. Under the leadership of Distinguished Professor, academician of Chinese Academy of Science, Prof. Chen Guoliang, National High Performance Computing Centre (Shenzhen) has excelled in many areas of High Performance Computing research and
applications. Shenzhen University (SZU) was founded as a public university on May 10th,1983 with the accreditation of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, and has undergone rapid growth and expansion in the past three decades just like the city of Shenzhen, China’s most successful Special Economic Zone.

About Numascale AS

With offices in Europe, Asia, and the USA, Numascale’s groundbreaking NumaConnect interconnect technology is the backbone for the most scalable server computer systems. NumaConnect allows high-volume manufactured server boards to be used as building blocks for systems with features that are only found in high-end enterprise servers. NumaConnect includes full support for virtualization of processing, memory, and I/O resources, and can be used with standard operating systems.

Numascale is supported by: Statoil, ProVenture, Investinor, Innovation Norway, Norges forskningsråd, and Eurostars. For more information, visit www.numascale.com.