Shanghai supercomputer centre

Shanghai 19 May 00 Shanghai, China's leading industrial and commercial city, has begun to build a supercomputer centre as part of its efforts to turn itself into an international information centre The Shanghai Super Computing Centre, scheduled for completion by the end of the year, will be equipped with homemade supercomputers with over 300 billion calculations per second. performance.

It is designed to facilitate the development of such areas as information technology, aircraft designing, bio-engineering, and shipbuilding.

Shanghai has stepped up efforts to develop its information technology industry over the past several years. It has turned out integrated circuits, computers, mobile telecommunications facilities and a series of other profitable information technology products.

Shanghai produces one-fifth of China's integrated circuits, one- third of its telecommunications equipment, and 30 percent of IC cards, according to the latest statistics.

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