Blooming America

Chapter 299 GPU is successfully developed!

After discussing for a while in the UK, Catherine gave all the remaining work to Ralph, and this matter finally required the appearance of American Telecom.

"What is the use of the Internet for the British?" Elsa seemed a little puzzled.

"Didn't you come from England?" Catherine was a little funny.

"So I don't even know what they need the Internet for. The United Kingdom is not as huge as the United States, and communication is very convenient. When my wife and I go to Wales, it only takes a long time."

Compared to the Americans, Britain is indeed very good.

"Maybe they want to strengthen the ties between Europe. Maybe they don't want to leave any opportunity for the Soviet Union."

Although she said that, Catherine had a strange feeling in her heart. Although this move in Europe has the feeling that it is aimed at the Soviet Union, on the other hand... it seems that some of it is aimed at the United States.

In fact, the European Union and the euro, in a sense, also appeared in Europe to fight the United States and the US dollar, even not because of the Soviet Union.

"I guess so."

This is the end of the matter, and Catherine's work has returned to normal. At this time, Catherine was discussing cloud computing with Olsen.

—— California’s Internet penetration has been done very well, especially in Los Angeles. Similarly, New York has already built a huge intra-city interconnection network. It is entirely possible to build a cloud computing system.

At this time, Olsen was calculating the cost for Catherine: "Based on the number of users in each city, the research cost of a cloud machine is about 10,000 U.S. dollars, and the cost is about 10,000 U.S. dollars. The research cost is not counted. If the cost of a cloud system is recovered, it takes about 2 years, and then it can continue to operate for two years. If the research cost is also included, we need to invest in our cloud system in at least five or six major cities. Only in this way can we make money. After the four-year lifespan is over, our computer expansion will make us have to choose to eliminate the original cloud computing machine."

Compared with the future, the current computer exhibition is simply two worlds.

In the 21st century, the highest floating point arithmetic of personal computer graphics cards has reached ps, which is on par with the ibm-te (ps) developed by ibm in the year, and it only took ten years. .

This situation is unimaginable before the age.

——This is also because the functions of current computers are very poor. Without a qualitative leap, it is difficult to see what advantages there are.

If it is placed in the 21st century, perhaps three or even two years, one must choose to add new machines or choose to upgrade.

Olsen continued to add: “However, we don’t need to invest too much in the replacement process. If the number of users of the previous machine is reduced to expand the capacity of the machine, it will be able to support a period of time and probably reduce us. About a quarter of the cost."

The high-level computer of the cloud system requires a certain amount of flexibility, which is very effective in reducing costs.

"But there is another problem...Although our cloud system is expected to load the upper limit of the highest person, in that case, the computer's speed will inevitably be affected."

"Well, system optimization must be done. However, the possibility of simultaneous online is not high, and we can also allow other computers to bear the calculation. If it is not possible, we will reduce the number of people. Is it okay for people to control them?"

Olson nodded: "Okay, we will recalculate and evaluate this."

When Olson went down, the phone rang suddenly at this moment.

Catherine picked up the phone, and the voice from the main station came from the other side: "Sister Edson, Mr. Roberts from Thunder Lab is looking for you. Do you need to get the phone in?"

"Ok."

Catherine responded.

"Sister Edson! Good news! Oh my goodness, this is so wonderful!"

Roberts on the other side seemed very excited.

"Calm down, Mr. Roberts."

Catherine was a little strange.

"Oh...oh, okay, I get it." The other side seemed a little embarrassed.

"What's the matter?" Catherine asked.

"The GPU you mentioned has been developed. It is capable of floating point calculations, which is better than the current BSP; the voice on the other side is very high-pitched, and it seems to be really happy. Catherine is also a little impatient here: "Okay. , I, Ma Shan, will go to the no pop-up novel network. "

Xunlei Lab is not in Noah, but is next to Rama Lab. However, neither position is too far away from Noah, and it takes more than ten minutes to speak.

"Roberts! Is it done already?"

As soon as she saw Roberts, Catherine couldn't wait to ask.

At this time, Roberts seemed to have no tension in the phone, he smiled, and it seemed a bit mysterious: "Please come with me and show you something."

Catherine followed Roberts and then entered the interior of the laboratory.

Roberts took Catherine to a 14-inch monitor, and then showed Catherine what was on it.

"This...this is..."

Catherine was stunned as soon as she saw what was on it-it turned out to be a full 3D scene!

"It took us a lot of time to make this thing." He smiled: "This is a full 3D scene, we can watch it from any angle."

The scene is very simple, it looks like a mí palace with a gray wall, but it is good to be able to do this step.

"It's really bang."

Catherine was also very happy.

Americans have a strange love for 3d, even in the black and white computer era, they used lines to build 3d scenes. For Americans, 3d technology is definitely a big killer.

"But this gpu is only the initial experimental version. After linking with the cpu, the maximum computing power is only ps."

"One million times per second..." Upon hearing this sentence, Catherine seemed to think of something: "You mean our netbsp; the other side nodded: "We have always designed GPUs based on the cuda architecture. "

Catherine nodded excitedly.

The research of gpu is much better than netg and cpu. Because of this, Catherine seemed so happy.

cpu and gpu are two directions, and there is a big difference between them. The gpu only needs to consider floating-point operations, so it can strengthen the xìng to the limit, and the cpu not only has to consider the calculation problem, but also consider adding () pipeline design, multi-shot (1uan sequence) system, instruction simplification and optimization, The floating-point arithmetic unit and the whole-point arithmetic unit must be designed separately. And the cpu on the smart phone, sometimes also consider the support for 3g and so on.

It's like running a fully armed soldier and an athlete in a thin shirt. The former is definitely not as good as the latter.

So with the GPU, Catherine can be so excited-which means that the current 16-bit machine can already do some of the things that the 32-bit machine can do in the future.

Hey, is there anything more banger than this?

"We have tried to use it on the mbus game console. Our game console can achieve 16-bit color (65535 colors). If the screen is the same, it can display colors at most, and the maximum resolution can also be achieved. But we only made a test program."

Catherine nodded: "Come slowly, don't worry."

It is enough to be able to achieve 16-bit color, and Catherine can be said to be satisfied with this.

If you can have this gpu, the future of 16-bit computers will be more perfect.

——But Catherine also knows that GPUs can only thrive on 32-bit computers.

"Roberts... Have you ever tried to build a class computer with GPUs?"

Hearing these words, Roberts' eyes lit up.

"Oh... yes, if you use such a GPU for a class computer... oh my god, this is a revolution!"

Yes, Roberts also realizes the value of it.

Using the current class computer that can build ps-that is, 100 million floating-point operations per second -, if you use gpu to add... it is possible to increase it ten times!

——If you put it in the original history, the ps (billion times) class computer can only be developed by Seymour Cray in 1983.

"But this is just an experimental product. The real product may take a month or two to come out."

Roberts seemed to have thought of it again.

"Don't worry, the company will fully support you."

Since this was just an experiment, Catherine didn't want to disturb the other party to open a formal GPU, so she left early.

When she returned from the Thunder Lab, Catherine found Seymour Clay.

"Cray, do you think it is feasible if we use a GPU open-level computer?"

Cray was taken aback by Catherine's dumb question.

"Theoretically feasible. If your gpu theory is correct...wait~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Is the gpu developed?"

Catherine nodded with a smile.

"Oh... can you show me this product?"

Catherine shook her head: "It's not working for the time being. The product research in the Thunder Lab is still in the completion stage, and it will take one or two months to complete.

"I seem to be a little impatient."

"Don't worry."

Catherine suddenly felt that she seemed a little over-excited. After Seymour Clay left, Catherine washed her face and calmed herself down.

"Oh, I seem to have trouble sleeping and eating... I really want to see the finished product soon!"

Catherine complained to Elsa.

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There is one more update, which will be a little later.