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.

[1][citation needed] Under the Chinese government's 863 Program, for the research and development of high technology products, the group launched their first supercomputer (Dawning No.

[4][5][6] 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.

The first supercomputer created was Dawning No.1 (Shuguang Yihao, 曙光一号), which received state certification in October 1993.

[2] The number of CPU increased to 280, and the system consists of ten 2-meter tall racks, weighing 5 tons total.

Power consumption is 25 kW, and one of the tasks it was used for was the part of human genome mapping that China was responsible for.

The system, at the Shanghai Supercomputer Center, utilizes over 2,560 AMD Opteron processors, and can reach speeds of 8 teraflops.

[12][13] However Shanghai Supercomputer Center required Microsoft Windows support whereas Loongson only ran under Linux.

This system is also installed at the Shanghai Supercomputer Center and runs with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.