China's First 100,000-Card Cluster Launched: Domestic Computing Power Enters the Era of 100,000 Cards

On July 10, 2025, Sugon announced in Zhengzhou the official launch of the Dawn 8000 (Dengfeng), a fully domestic AI supercomputing cluster, now connected to the National Supercomputing Internet. Adopting a native hyper-fusion technology roadmap, it supports full-precision computing from FP64 to INT8, enabling both scientific computing and large model training.

Engineering Challenges and Breakthroughs

Scaling from 10,000 to 100,000 cards exponentially increases system complexity. The Dawn 8000 achieves breakthroughs through full-stack self-developed technologies (chips, networking, storage, cooling, scheduling):

• Networking: Uses IB-like native RDMA high-speed network for reliable 100,000-card connectivity with zero packet loss and millisecond-level fault recovery.
• Cooling: Immersion phase-change liquid cooling achieves a PUE as low as 1.04, supporting MW-level high-power-density deployment.
• Storage: ParaStor distributed storage ranks first on both production-type lists of the 2026 Global IO500.
• Scheduling: Gridview 7.0 dual-agent architecture enables automated operations.

Application Achievements and Ecosystem

The cluster has completed over 300 application adaptations across more than 20 domains, with over 70 10,000-card-scale tests. Notable results include:

• 90,000 cards for high-precision DFT simulation of 3.16 trillion atoms (materials science)
• 80,000 cards for full-process protein folding simulation (drug discovery)
• 88,000 cards for 328 trillion grid turbulence simulation (aviation, shipbuilding)

The cluster adopts an open architecture compatible with multiple AI accelerator brands, and the OneScience platform reduces scientific model development cycles from days to hours.

Industry Impact

On launch day, the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence signed a strategic cooperation with Sugon to start developing a second 100,000-card system, marking the transition from demonstration to replicable solution. Connected to the National Supercomputing Internet, the Dawn 8000 becomes a backbone node of the national integrated computing network, potentially helping China build the world's largest computing scheduling network.