Naming Activity for Shanghai Supercomputer Center's Trillion-Times Host

In 1996, chess grandmaster Kasparov faced off against the supercomputer "Deep Blue," with Kasparov declaring victory at 4 to 2. After more than a year of improvements by its developers at IBM, in 1997, Kasparov was defeated in a six-game match against "Deeper Blue." Since then, people have remembered the name "Deep Blue"...

Now, the Dawning 5000 supercomputer, jointly developed by Dawning Company and the Shanghai Supercomputing Center, is about to be installed in Shanghai. This supercomputer, which operates at a speed exceeding 200 trillion calculations per second, is 17,000 times faster than the original "Deep Blue." One can only imagine what the outcome would have been if Kasparov had faced not "Deep Blue," but this "Dawning 5000."

Through an analysis of the top ten machines listed in the TOP500 rankings over the years, many well-known mainframes have influential names beyond their manufacturer-customized brands and models, such as "Deep Blue," "Earth Simulator," "White Pacific," and "Blue Gene." With the birth of Dawning 5000, there is a strong possibility that it will once again surpass the best ranking achieved by a domestically produced Chinese computer in the TOP500 (the previous record was set by Dawning 4000A, installed at the Shanghai Supercomputing Center, which ranked tenth). We hope that by soliciting names for the mainframe that the Shanghai Supercomputing Center is about to introduce, we can give this self-developed Chinese supercomputer a more memorable name and allow the Shanghai Supercomputing Center's public service platform to function even better.