China cloud computing roundup: Supercomputers and newbuilds

January 14, 2013 Off By David

Grazed from DataCenterDynamics. Author: Laura Luo.

The Wuyuan Cloud Computing Data Center Project has been launched, marking China’s first county-level cloud computing data center landing in Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province. With a total investment of 500m CNY, the data center will be constructed by Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), a branch of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) in South China.

It is planned to break ground this January and be completed in June next year. The data center will have a computing speed of 300 trillion times/second, with its storage capacity reaching PB level upon completion. It is said that it will become the largest headquarter data center and supercomputer data center of the Chinese Academy of Science in East China, providing supercomputing and storage services for many industries including banking and education and provincial governments of Jiangxi, Hubei and Anhui…

Beijing’s Super Cloud Computing Center infrastructure built

The Beijing Super Cloud Computing Data Center, a cooperative project between the Beijing Municipal Government and the Chinese Academy of Science, has completed its infrastructure construction and will be put into commercial use this June…

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