National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi

Name

National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi

Legal name

国家超级计算无锡中心

Website

https://nsccwx.cn

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

High-Performance Computing Services

NAICS

Electronic Computer Manufacturing (334111), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing (3344)

SIC

Electronic Computers (3571)

akta.pro primary industry

Compute & Acceleration ICs (CPU/GPU/AI/FPGA/ASIC) (HDAHABAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Application Processors & Microprocessors (MPUs/CPUs) (HDAHAJAB)

Keywords

• High performance computing
• Scientific computing services
• HPC infrastructure
• Computational simulation platform
• Parallel computing services

Headquarters

HQ city

Wuxi Shi

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Operations, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Supercomputing Resource Services: Provides hardware and software rental services for science and engineering computing to research institutions, universities, and enterprises. Operates as a national public technology service platform funded by government investment (Ministry of Science and Technology, Jiangsu Province, Wuxi City) with Tsinghua University managing operations. Revenue generated through compute time contracts and service fees to institutions.
2. Drug Discovery Computing Platform: SWDOCKP²-based drug discovery computing platform serving domestic and international research institutions and pharmaceutical companies for virtual screening services, generating revenue through computational service contracts
3. Industrial Simulation Platform (神工坊): High-performance industrial simulation platform providing customized solutions to automotive, new energy, aerospace and other industrial sectors, generating revenue through service contracts and platform access fees

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi (国家超级计算无锡中心) operates the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer system — the world's first to exceed 100 PFlops peak performance, built entirely on domestic Shenwei 26010 manycore processors — and provides high-performance computing resources, custom application software development, industrial simulation platforms, and operations services to research institutions, universities, government agencies, and industrial enterprises. As a national public technology service platform, it allocates compute time through project evaluation and contracts compute resources to verified institutional users across scientific, engineering, biomedical, and industrial applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• 神工坊 (Shengongfang): High-performance industrial simulation platform providing one-stop services for high-performance industrial simulation application development, customization and services, serving automotive, new energy, aerospace and other industrial sectors with digital empowerment and smart R&D solutions.
• SWDOCKP²
• 风神NF3 (Fengshen NF3)
• 重睛鸟 (Zhongjingniao)

Products and services

• Scientific and Engineering Computing Services (科学与工程计算) Provides cost-effective computing system solutions for major scientific and engineering applications, offering on-demand hardware and software rental for research institutions, universities, and enterprises working on climate modeling, earth system simulation, fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, and other large-scale computational problems.
• Application Software Development and Optimization (应用软件开发与优化) Custom software product and application software development services tailored to user requirements, including optimization of scientific computing codes for the Sunway architecture to maximize performance on domestic manycore processors.
• Domestic Shenwei Computing System (国产神威算力系统) Advanced mature architecture integrating domestically developed Shenwei manycore processors and AI acceleration cards with proprietary Shenwei high-speed switching and transmission networks, providing autonomous and controllable HPC compute capacity for institutions requiring full domestic technology stack.
• Shengongfang High-Performance Simulation Platform (神工坊) One-stop high-performance industrial simulation platform providing application development, customization, and services for automotive, new energy, aerospace, shipbuilding, and other industrial sectors, enabling digital empowerment and smart R&D through simulation solutions.
• Intelligent Computing Digital R&D Platform (智算未来数字化研发平台) Intelligent computing platform that enables rapid 2–3 hour integration with major mainstream public cloud providers' mixed cloud products without major modifications to existing local compute and software/hardware deployments.
• Heavy-Eye Bird Code Traceability and Security Review System (重睛鸟) Fully self-developed code traceability and security review platform for multiple mainstream programming languages, covering over 5 million open source projects, 100+ billion lines of source code, 200,000+ vulnerability records, and 1,500+ license agreements. Used by government and military customers for software supply chain security.
• Elevator IoT Smart Supervision System (电梯物联网智慧监管系统) IoT-based elevator supervision system providing real-time monitoring and safety management, currently deployed monitoring over 20,000 elevators.
• HPC Operations and Maintenance Services (运维与服务) Provides high-performance cluster architecture design, deployment, operations, and application support services for institutional clients operating their own HPC systems or using the center's infrastructure.
• SWDOCKP² Virtual Screening Framework (SWDOCKP²虚拟筛选框架) Performance-portable virtual screening framework for protein-ligand docking achieving 1.9 trillion calculations per day on Sunway supercomputers, with single-core performance 13x that of commercial CPUs. Capable of simultaneously docking 8 protein target structures. Jointly developed with Beijing Life Sciences Institute, Shandong University, and Tsinghua University.
• FengShen NF3 Digital Twin Wind Tunnel (风神NF3数字孪生风洞) Digital twin wind tunnel platform using 'geometry-physics-data' triple twin architecture to achieve 1:1 replication of physical wind tunnels for aerospace R&D. Reduces R&D cycle by 30–60% and saves 40–80% of testing costs. Developed with Northwest Polytechnical University based on Asia's largest low-speed airfoil wind tunnel NF-3.
• Aviation Engine Combustion and Heat Transfer Simulation Software Aircraft engine low-emission combustion and heat transfer parallel simulation software compatible with domestic heterogeneous supercomputers, supporting 100 million cores parallel computing and 1 billion grid-level solving. Used by COMAC and AVIC General Aviation for civil aircraft multidisciplinary design.
• Shenhuan Large Model (神威环知大模型) Generative AI large language model for the environmental protection domain, providing human-machine dialogue and professional text generation with intelligent retrieval and interactive Q&A on environmental policies, technical standards, and professional literature.
• Intelligent Low-Altitude Digital Twin System Digital twin system integrating urban 3D spatial data, communication-navigation-surveillance (CNS) facility data, and UAV operational data for real-time situational mapping, supporting low-altitude flight test verification at provincial test flight bases.
• Liyun Weather Large Model (丽云气象大模型) Weather large model for climate and atmospheric prediction, leveraging supercomputing capacity for numerical weather forecasting.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1.9 trillion protein-ligand docking calculations per day through SWDOCKP² framework, equivalent to screening the entire human proteome
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and regional.

• Qinghai University (青海大学)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 June 2026Co-founded National Supercomputing Center Wuxi Qinghai University Branch (July 2024). Joint research on green computing, computing-electricity collaboration, and distributed supercomputing network. The branch serves as a hub for astronomical research, ecological protection, climate prediction, healthcare, and new energy materials R&D in the Qinghai region.
• Northwest Polytechnical University (西北工业大学)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 June 2026Long-standing research collaboration on aviation engine simulation, including the successful development of FengShen NF3 digital twin wind tunnel platform based on Asia's largest low-speed airfoil wind tunnel NF-3.
• Beijing Life Sciences Institute / Tsinghua University Institute of Biomedical Cross-research (北生所/清华大学生物医学交叉研究院)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 June 2026Joint research on drug discovery using SWDOCKP² framework, achieving 1.9 trillion protein-ligand docking calculations per day. Multiple novel drug targets validated and lead compounds discovered through the platform.
• Shandong University (山东大学)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 June 2026Collaborated with NSCC Wuxi on developing SWDOCKP² virtual screening framework, contributing to parallel algorithm optimization and performance tuning for domestic supercomputers.
• Tsinghua University (清华大学)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 June 2026Tsinghua University manages NSCC Wuxi operations. Professor Yang Guangwen serves as center director, and multiple Tsinghua researchers contribute to center R&D. Joint work spans earth system modeling, HPC+AI integration, and climate prediction.
• Pangshan Laboratory (崂山实验室)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 June 2026Collaboration on global kilometer-scale earth system modeling, developing AP3ESMv2 model that integrates AI-physical parameterization for improved simulation accuracy and computational efficiency.
• China Meteorological Administration Earth System Numerical Prediction Center (中国气象局地球系统数值预报中心)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 June 2026Joint construction of 'Earth System Mode Computing Innovation Joint Laboratory' for advancing numerical weather prediction using supercomputing resources.
• Pengcheng National Laboratory (鹏城国家实验室)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 June 2026Collaboration on AI large language models and intelligent computing platforms, supporting domestic AI training infrastructure development.
• China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (中国航天科技集团)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 June 2026Partnership with 太初元碁Tecorigin for intelligent computing system solutions supporting aerospace applications and research.
• China Electronics Technology Group (中电科)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 July 2024Joint laboratory for AI security compliance, focusing on developing standards and technologies for secure AI deployment and compliance verification in supercomputing environments.
• Yancheng (盐城) Branch CenterregionalStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2023NSCC Wuxi Yancheng Branch Center officially launched in July 2022, extending supercomputing services to the Yancheng region.
• Wuxi University (无锡学院)regionalStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2022Strategic cooperation for共建 Wuxi University Supercomputing Center, supporting education and research in the Wuxi region.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves11 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin (NSCC-TJ): Peer national supercomputing center in China operating the Tianhe series supercomputers, serving research institutions, universities, and industrial users with HPC services via similar application/evaluation process. NSCC-TJ is the closest functional peer — same government-invested, Tsinghua/NUDT-affiliated national public HPC service platform model.
• National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou (NSCC-GZ): Sun Yat-sen University-affiliated national supercomputing center operating the Tianhe-2 system, providing HPC services to south China research and industrial users under the same national platform framework. Direct peer in mission, funding structure, and customer engagement model.
• National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen: Shenzhen-based national supercomputing center focused on industrial HPC services. Direct peer under the national supercomputing infrastructure platform framework, serving overlapping industrial customer segments in south China.

Emerging players

• Pengcheng National Laboratory: A strategic partner of NSCC-WX that also operates large-scale HPC infrastructure (Pengcheng Cloudbrain) and AI large model training. EMERGING_PLAYER with overlapping mission in domestic AI/HPC infrastructure, co-developing AI compute capabilities.

Broad incumbents

• Sugon (Dawning Information Industry): China's largest commercial HPC server vendor and cloud provider, building on x86 and domestic Hygon (AMD-licensed) processors. BROAD_INCUMBENT offering competing HPC infrastructure-as-a-service with broader commercial cloud capabilities, including AI compute via Hygon CPUs and DCU accelerators.
• Inspur Group: China's largest server vendor with a broad HPC systems and cloud business, providing AI/HPC clusters to research and industrial customers. BROAD_INCUMBENT serving similar workloads but via a commercial, productized server sale/channel model rather than a national-public-service platform.
• Lenovo Group (HPC): Global HPC systems vendor operating one of the world's largest HPC systems businesses including the Lenovo ThinkSystem clusters sold to research institutions. BROAD_INCUMBENT providing competing turn-key HPC infrastructure internationally with broader server/storage portfolio.
• Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun): Largest Chinese public cloud with elastic HPC and AI compute services, including high-performance CPU/GPU instances and AI training platforms. BROAD_INCUMBENT competing with NSCC-WX for elastic industrial/scientific HPC workloads, especially from SMEs that want consumption-based access.
• Huawei Cloud: Chinese hyperscaler providing HPC and AI compute services based on Kunpeng ARM CPUs and Ascend AI accelerators. BROAD_INCUMBENT with the most direct domestic alternative to NSCC-WX's Shenwei stack, including sovereign-AI positioning for regulated industries.

Regional players

• RIKEN Center for Computational Science: Operator of the Fugaku supercomputer in Japan — a government-funded national supercomputing center serving research and industrial users under an application/evaluation model similar to NSCC-WX. REGIONAL_PLAYER with comparable mission, funding structure, and customer engagement process but in Japan.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

Investments1 record

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