Sugon

Dawning Information Industry Company Limited ("Sugon")

Native name

| 曙光信息產業有限公司
Type| Public

Traded as

* SSE: 603019

Industry| High performance computing
Founded| 1996; 30 years ago (1996)
Headquarters| Sugon Building, Zhongguancun Software Park, Haidian District,

Beijing

People's Republic of China

Area served

| China
Products| Supercomputers, x86 servers
Website| {{{1}}}

Sugon (Chinese: 曙光; pinyin: Shǔguāng), officially Dawning Information Industry Company Limited,[1] is a supercomputer manufacturer based in the People's Republic of China.[2] The company is a spin-off from research done at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and still has close links to it.[3]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 1.1 U.S. sanctions
* 2 Supercomputers
* 2.1 Dawning No.1
* 2.2 Dawning 1000
* 2.3 Dawning 2000
* 2.4 Dawning 3000
* 2.5 Dawning 4000A
* 2.6 Dawning 5000
* 2.7 Dawning 6000
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## History

The company is a development of work done at the Institute of Computer Science, CAS.[1] Under the Chinese government's 863 Program, for the research and development of high technology products, the group launched their first supercomputer (Dawning No. 1) in 1993.[2] In 1996 the group launched the Dawning Company to allow the transfer of research computers into the market.[2]

The company was tasked with developing further supercomputers under the 863 program, which led to the Dawning 5000A and 6000 computers.[2]

The company was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2014.[1] CAS still retains stock in the company. Sugon is an investor in technology company GoLaxy.[4]

In May 2025, it was announced that Sugon would merge with Hygon Information Technology.[5]

### U.S. sanctions

According to the United States Department of Defense the company has links to the People's Liberation Army and, in 2019, Sugon was added to the Bureau of Industry and Security's Entity List due to U.S. national security concerns.[6][7][8] In November 2020, the then President of the United States Donald Trump issued an executive order prohibiting any American company or individual from owning shares in companies that the United States Department of Defense has listed as having links to the People's Liberation Army, which included Sugon.[9][10][11]

In October 2022, the United States Department of Defense added Sugon to a list of "Chinese military companies" operating in the U.S.[12]

## Supercomputers

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Dawning was the company's initial name; it was later changed to Sugon. The computers are originally known by their Dawning moniker, but can also use Sugon names in the literature. The model series is as below.

### Dawning No.1

### Dawning 1000

The Dawning 1000 was Sugon's second generation supercomputer, and was originally named Dawning No.2 (Shuguang Erhao, 曙光二号). Dawning 1000 was released in 1995,{{citation needed|date=December 2021} 11 May 1995.[citation needed] The family of supercomputers could n" /> This series of the Dawning family consists of the Dawning 1000A and 1000L.[citation needed]

### Dawning 2000

The Dawning 2000 was initially released in 1996, and could achieve a peak performance of 4 GFLOPS. A further variant, the Dawning 2000-I, was released in 1998 with a peak performance of 20 GFLOPS. The final model in the series, the Dawning 2000-II, was released in 1999 with a peak performance of 111.7 GFLOPS.{{citation needed|date=December 2021} The Dawning 2000 passed state certification on 28 January 2000. The supercomputer model was designed as a cluster to achieve over 100 GLOPS peak performance.[2] The number of CPUs used was greatly increased to 164 in comparison to older models, and like earlier models, the operating system is UNIX.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}

### Dawning 3000

### Dawning 4000A

The fifth member of the Dawning family, Dawning 4000A, debuted as one of the top 10 fastest supercomputers in the world on the TOP500 list,[13] capable of 806.1 billion FLOPS. The system, at the Shanghai Supercomputer Center, utilizes over 2,560 AMD Opteron processors, and can reach speeds of 8 teraflops.

### Dawning 5000

The Dawning 5000 series was initially planned to use indigenous Loongson processors.[14][15] However Shanghai Supercomputer Center required Microsoft Windows support whereas Loongson only ran under Linux.[14]

The Dawning 5000A was ranked 10th in the November 2008 TOP500 list.[16] Additionally at the time, it was also the largest system using Windows HPC Server 2008 for this benchmark. This system is also installed at the Shanghai Supercomputer Center and runs with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.[17]

### Dawning 6000

The Dawning 6000 was announced in 2011, at 300 TFLOPS, incorporating 3000 8-core Loongson 3B processors at 3.2 GFLOP/W. It is the "first supercomputer made exclusively of Chinese components"[18] and has a projected speed of over a PFLOP (one quadrillion operations per second). For comparison, the fastest supercomputer as of June 2014 runs at 33 PFLOPS.[19] The same announcement said that a petascale supercomputer was under development and that the launch was anticipated in 2012 or 2013.[18]

## See also

* Shanghai Supercomputer Center
* Nebulae - Dawning TC3600

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Company Overview - Sugon". https://www.sugon.com/en/about/index?nav_id=186.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Qian, Depei; Luan, Zhongzhi (1 January 2019). "High Performance Computing Development in China: A Brief Review and Perspectives". Computing in Science & Engineering 21 (1): 6–16. doi:10.1109/MCSE.2018.2875367. Bibcode: 2019CSE....21a...6Q. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2018.2875367. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
3. ↑ "中国科学院大学与中科曙光签署合作协议" (in zh). 2021-05-08. https://news.ucas.ac.cn/ywsd/2c1d962c88cb476299f55474d0743355.htm. "曙光与国科大同属于中科院体系，双方均致力于国家科技自强，发展理念高度契合，合作空间广阔，未来大有可为"
4. ↑ Barnes, Julian E. (2025-08-06). "China Turns to A.I. in Information Warfare" (in en). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/politics/china-artificial-intelligence-information-warfare.html.
5. ↑ Cao, Ann (2025-05-26). "Sugon, Hygon merger is latest sign of consolidation in China's computing sector" (in en). https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3311838/sugon-hygon-merger-latest-sign-consolidation-chinas-computing-sector.
6. ↑ Allen-Ebrahimian, Bethany (June 24, 2020). "Defense Department produces list of Chinese military-linked companies". Axios. https://www.axios.com/defense-department-chinese-military-linked-companies-856b9315-48d2-4aec-b932-97b8f29a4d40.html.
7. ↑ Swanson, Ana; Mozur, Paul; Lohr, Steve (2019-06-21). "U.S. Blacklists More Chinese Tech Companies Over National Security Concerns" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/politics/us-china-trade-blacklist.html.
8. ↑ O’Keeffe, Kate; Fitch, Asa (2019-06-21). "U.S. Targets China's Supercomputing Push With New Export Restrictions" (in en-US). The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-targets-chinas-supercomputing-push-with-new-export-restrictions-11561129547.
9. ↑ Chen, Shawna (November 12, 2020). "Trump bans Americans from investing in 31 companies with links to Chinese military". Axios. https://www.axios.com/china-military-trump-investments-ban-a0458e29-2245-4bde-920b-d1c6bc698370.html.
10. ↑ Pamuk, Humeyra; Alper, Alexandra; Ali, Idrees (2020-11-12). "Trump bans U.S. investments in firms linked to Chinese military" (in en). Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-securities-exclusive-idUSKBN27S2X3.
11. ↑ Swanson, Ana (2020-11-12). "Trump Bars Investment in Chinese Firms With Military Ties" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/business/economy/trump-china-investment-ban.html.
12. ↑ "DOD Releases List of People's Republic of China (PRC) Military Companies in Accordance With Section 1260H of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021" (in en-US). 2022-10-05. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3180636/dod-releases-list-of-peoples-republic-of-china-prc-military-companies-in-accord.
13. ↑ "TOP500 List - June 2004 (1-100) | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites". http://www.top500.org/list/2004/06/.
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "China Ditches Home-Grown Chips in New Supercomputer". 2008-06-25. http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/21574739.html.
15. ↑ http://news.sina.com.tw/tech/sinacn/cn/2007-04-04/190438142075.shtml
16. ↑ "November 2008 TOP500 list". http://www.top500.org/lists/2008/11.
17. ↑ "Shanghai Supercomputer Center Computing Resources". http://www.ssc.net.cn/en/resources_1.aspx.
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Mims, Christopher (March 2, 2011). "China's Homemade Supercomputer May be the Most Efficient Ever" (in en). MIT Technology Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/423168/chinas-homemade-supercomputer-may-be-the-most-efficient-ever/.
19. ↑ "CHINA'S TIANHE-2 SUPERCOMPUTER RETAINS TOP SPOT ON 43RD EDITION OF THE TOP500 LIST". http://www.top500.org/blog/lists/2014/06/press-release/.

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