Introduction

2013-04-03

The Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Computational Science (abbreviated as GPK-LCS) at Sun Yat-sen University was established in September 2010 upon the approval of Guangdong Provincial Department of Science & Technology. GPK-LCS integrates the strength of School of Mathematics & Computational Science and Computational Science discipline in Sun Yat-sen University, devoting to developing an innovative research platform for interdisciplinary investigation and creating a base for original research in Computational Science and talent training. The laboratory is committed to gain breakthrough at high-performance computing methods researches as well as their applications, to become a consulting institution which serves for enterprises, institutions, scientific institutes and governments with high performance computing technique, and to assist economic and social development of Guangdong Province.

GPK-LCS has a multi-disciplinary, high-profile research team with 44 full-time researchers, including 16 professors, 13 associate professors and 15 lecturers; among them, there are 2 winners of National Outstanding Youth Foundation, 2 members were elected personnel to “Excellent Youth Teachers Program of MOE, P.R.C.”, 3 faculties were elected personnel to “Program for New Century Excellent Youth Talents”, and 3 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship awarder.

By inheriting rigorous scholarship and the ideal of creativity, the laboratory is promoting its academic reputation in the field of Computational Science at home and aboard. In the past 3 years, the laboratory completed or has undertaken 49 state or provincial projects with over 57 million RMB research funds, and published more than 160 SCI-indexed papers and 3 monographs. Some on-going representative projects are:

The laboratory has over 2000 sq.m. working space including Researchers Studio, Visitors Room, Academic Report Hall and Discussion Room. Furthermore, the laboratory is excellently equipped with one GPU Cluster with peak performance of 130 TFlops/sec, one PHPC100 Cluster, and two small-scale servers.

With all the achievements having been made, the laboratory has an ambition to become a laboratory representing the leading level of domestic computational science and a center for scientific and technical innovation, to mature as an influential international base for talent training in computational science.