At the turn of the Millennium, the supercomputing and high performance computing industry has witnessed its fastest growth worldwide. Computing platforms of multi-Gflops are built to support a wide range of scientific and engineering computations. Hong Kong is also proactively responding to this new epoch. More HPC platforms have been and will be installed in Hong Kong. In the private sector, financial institutions are using computer clusters for data-mining and simulations. Academics at universities are using computer clusters to run very large scale simulations in their research projects in computational science and engineering. The government departments (Hong Kong Observatory, Environmental Protection Department, and the Hong Kong Police Departments, … etc.) also have procured and started utilizing supercomputers and/or computer clusters to satisfy the ever growing demand of computation power. The application domain of supercomputers and high performance computing platforms in Hong Kong is proliferating at all dimensions – research and development, weather forecast, crime analysis, forensic sciences, data-mining, scientific/engineering simulations, environmental protection and sustainable development, digital entertainment and multimedia production etc.

To make way for the further development of the supercomputing industry/market, an overall perspective of the current status is of vital importance. The Hong Kong Supercomputing Directory will provide such meaningful and timely information on HPC and supercomputing usage.

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Supercomputing and high performance computing is an essential part of the Knowledge-based infrastructure of the new economy in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Supercomputing Directory is compiled:

Note:- The Hong Kong Institute of High Performance Computing, working together with the Supercomputing Center at the Computer Network Information Centre of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, will co-ordinate to submit appropriate entries to the "China Top100 Supercomputers".

The Hong Kong Institute of High Performance Computing would like to thank the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, The University of Hong Kong, for her kind support in developing this website and as an interim arrangement, in hosting it.