Revisiting Future Path

095 Low-key thinking leads to misunderstandings

Of course, the times are developing, and supercomputer technology is also moving forward at a rapid pace. According to Xiao Lei’s knowledge, from November 2003 to May 2004, at least two supercomputers exceeded the ten trillion times threshold. Among the new global supercomputer Top_500, the accurate ranking of Cambrian 2004 Experimental Product A should be The fifth or sixth in the world.

However, the Cambrian 2004 experimental product A cannot be exacted to be the world's first.

The results of Cambrian 2004 Experimental Product A are already very good.

Last year, Lenovo ranked 14th in the world, Shenteng 6800, the highest performance in the actual test of Linpack software was 4.183 trillion times per second. Similarly, the Dawn of the constant war of words with Lenovo, its propagated 10 trillion level supercomputer Dawning 4000A, it is said that the highest performance in the actual test is only 8.061 trillion times. The Cambrian 2004 Experimental A, or Cambrian 2004A for short, has a value of 11.61 trillion times, 1.44 times that of Dawning 4000A and 2.77 times that of Shenteng 6800.

According to the supercomputer Top_500 standard, Cambrian 2004A is the first supercomputer in China that has crossed the ten trillion threshold.

In other words, Wei Dongsheng's research on supercomputers is to adapt to computer intelligent life. Since supercomputers are technical projects and cannot emulate the market explosion like "The Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms", Wei Dongsheng originally planned to "build walls high, accumulate grain, and slowly become king" and slowly accumulate reputation in the industry, making the achievements of supercomputers more natural some.

Unfortunately, this is only Wei Dongsheng's wishful thinking.

Xiao Lei is willing to call friends and call friends to go all out to build a supercomputer, provided that the hope brought by heterogeneous computing ideas. These technicians, ignoring the threats of the dawn or the Chinese Science Computer, followed Xiao Lei to the Smart Universe Information Industry to do projects, not only pursuing a premium salary, but also witnessing a supercomputer of ten trillion or even tens of trillions. Born. If Wei Dongsheng has the corresponding theoretical skills but does not allow them to write records, Xiao Lei's team will immediately lose the basis of existence.

The first phase of the Cambrian 2004 study was set at the ten trillion level because it was aimed at Sugon 4000A.

Cambrian 2004A and Dawn 4000A are actually a scientific research competition, a scientific research competition initiated by Xiao Lei's team.

If Wei Dongsheng does not allow Xiao Lei's team to compete with Sugon for the honor of the first 10 trillion supercomputer in order to keep a low profile, a large part of Xiao Lei's team will choose to leave. The reason why Xiao Lei was able to disregard the distinction between private enterprises and state-owned enterprises to bring up a reliable team was based on the honor and hope of Cambrian 2004. With technology and results, the technicians in Xiao Lei's team will not be afraid of soft or hard threats from the Institute of Computer Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is precisely because of this that Xiao Lei discovered that the theoretical limit of Dawning 4000A was about 12 trillion times, and immediately raised the theoretical limit of Cambrian 2004A to 30 trillion times.

It can be said that the performance of the Cambrian 2004A is a sniper aimed at the Dawn 4000A.

Now, Xiao Lei's team has won the victory of course, taking the first honor of the Chinese supercomputer from Dawning 4000A. What makes Xiao Lei's team more proud of is that the victory of this scientific research competition is an absolute crush of an egg against a stone.

The total number of processors in Dawning 4000A is 2560, while Cambrian 2004A has only 274 CPUs and 242 GPUs. Cambrian 2004A uses a smaller number of chips to achieve a performance that greatly exceeds Dawning 4000A. Cambrian 2004A is even just a test product to verify Wei Dongsheng’s heterogeneous computing theory. If the current scientific research speed is maintained, the second phase of the test product B will be born after three or four months, and its performance will surpass Cambrian several times. Ji 2004A.

The Dawning 4000A project and the Cambrian 2004 project are completely incomparable.

As for the former king, the Shenteng 6800 produced by Lenovo has no sense of existence.

The Xiao Lei team was excited to celebrate the successful operation of Cambrian 2004A, but Wei Dongsheng had no worries. After revision, Xiao Lei's team's plan for the second phase of Cambrian 2004B is to surpass Japan's Earth-Simulator, sprinting 50 trillion times. Earth-Simulator's actual test score is 35.8 trillion times. Cambrian 2004A has just won the first place in China, and Cambrian 2004B immediately won the world's first place. Is this achievement too dazzling?

At the end of the celebration party, Wei Dongsheng quietly found Xiao Lei: "After half a year, everyone is tired."

Xiao Lei's excitement has not subsided: "Not tired, happy."

Wei Dongsheng: "A combination of work and rest."

Xiao Lei: "I will pay attention."

Wei Dongsheng: "From the beginning of the project until now, everyone has been working overtime, and the Spring Festival is uneasy. At the end of the first phase, Cambrian 2004A has achieved 116,100 good results. It is better to take a two-month holiday and everyone has a good rest."

Xiao Lei was full of enthusiasm: "Let’s rest until the Cambrian 2004 ends. Now we should strike while the iron is hot to complete the second stage of verification.

Wei Dongsheng was depressed.

Xiao Lei couldn't understand his low-key desire.

Wei Dongsheng had to say something more clearly: "You also know that for the honor of supercomputers, Lenovo and Suguang do not know how many times they have been pinched. The Chinese Academy of Sciences holds 65% of Lenovo’s equity through the Chinese Academy of Sciences State-owned Assets Management Co., Ltd., Lenovo and Sugon Out of the same vein, even with such fierce fighting, Zhiyu Information Industry as a private company is not to mention. Take you as an example, after going to Dawn to dig a corner, how did the Institute of Computer Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences threaten you..."

Xiao Lei snorted disdainfully: "Fear of him!"

The "entry contract" signed by Xiao Lei and Zhiyu is actually a deliberate cooperation agreement between law firms, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences simply cannot take the administrative route to judge Xiao Lei. Xiao Lei has the qualifications, merits and skills. After coming to Zhiyu, he led the development of the Cambrian 2004A, which is temporarily ranked No. 1 in China, and 2004B, which is about to sprint to the world No. 1. The Chinese Academy of Sciences drove Xiao Lei out, and over there. Countless universities have visited and invited Xiao Lei to leave the post. Holding the Cambrian 2004 project in hand, Xiao Lei and other team members are not afraid of the threat of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Xiao Lei insisted on competing with the Dawning 4000A scientific research, precisely to counter the Chinese Academy of Sciences today.

Wei Dongsheng sighed: "You are not afraid, but you are not afraid, I am afraid."

Xiao Lei was at a loss: "What are you afraid of? The project funds are not enough?"

Wei Dongsheng was afraid of Xiao Lei’s random thoughts, and quickly calmed down: “Don’t worry about money. Cambrian 2004’s project funds are very abundant. Although the cash cow "The Spring and Autumn of Ten Kingdoms" has not returned to its high growth rate, monthly sales have stabilized, and the absolute value is But it is still very impressive. Operating income in March was 15465 million, and operating income in April was 151.9 million, which is enough for you."

Supercomputer research and development is actually very expensive. For example, Earth-Simulator in Japan invested a full 160 billion yen when the project was confirmed in 1998, which was equivalent to more than 10 billion yuan. In the Cambrian 2004 project, Wei Dongsheng has solved the core difficulties, and considering the low-cost factors such as China's human resources, hundreds of millions of dollars of funds have been able to operate very well.

Xiao Lei didn't understand: "If you have enough money, what are you afraid of?"

Wei Dongsheng made a fuss and persuaded Xiao Lei: "If you follow the original schedule, you will win the first place in China in May and first in the world in September. This honor is too dazzling. Let's delay it by two months."

Xiao Lei: "It is impossible for the second phase of the Cambrian 2004B to win the world's number one. Both IBM and HP have plans to sprint 50 trillion times. I'm sure that in the second half of the year, Earth-Simulator will be Squeeze to the top of the list. Our Cambrian 2004B wants the world's first glory, but the final version of Cambrian 2004 is eligible to compete for the world's first."

With this being said, Xiao Lei understood Wei Dongsheng’s difficulties: “If you delay it for two months, then delay it by two months.”

Xiao Lei did not understand Wei Dongsheng's low-key demand.

Xiao Lei worked for Sugon before, and only wished that he could not do his best to improve computing performance with limited resources. How could he be self-regulating and low-key.

For a country, the status of supercomputers is very important. During the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union in the last century, supercomputers, as military strategic equipment, have always been the core of the global technology embargo. After the end of the Cold War, supercomputers have gradually evolved from military technology to civilian technology. Countries have carried out extensive cooperation, and the surface seems to be harmonious. In fact, it is not the case. The core technology of supercomputers has always been a national weapon. European and American countries have been restricting the development of supercomputers in China.

However, this may also be a good thing. If it weren't for the consistent attitude of restrictions and blockades in Europe and the United States, and the public opinion of "buying is worse than building" prevailed, the country would not invest resources to track the cutting-edge supercomputer technology, and invest funds to concentrate on the development of its own supercomputer.

Whether it's Dawn or the Institute of Computer Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, they are never afraid of dazzling results.

If Sugon has the ability and funds to be No. 1 in the world, it will definitely not be reconciled to rank No. 2 in the world.

Xiao Lei has the same psychology.

However, Xiao Lei is not an obscure dedicated scientist who knows the ups and downs of the world in the ivory tower. Xiao Lei ran through projects and asked for funds, knowing that scientific research and society are closely linked. Xiao Lei guessed that Wei Dongsheng had the funds, the willingness and the ability to do research, but suddenly wasted time playing low-key, he must have been threatened by external threats: either someone was jealous of the achievements of the wisdom universe, or someone wanted to embezzle the fame and fortune of the Cambrian 2004 .

Xiao Lei will not sit back and watch such things happen.

Cambrian 2004 is a project of the Wisdom Universe, and it is also a project of his Xiao Lei.

The Cambrian 2004 project cannot be so sadly stagnated and then die.

Therefore, Xiao Lei promised to postpone the Cambrian, but his heart was boiling, and he decided to do his best to preserve the Cambrian 2004 project.

Although born in poverty, Xiao Lei, as a supercomputer expert, also has his own personal network.

In Xiao Lei's team, there is actually one member who can listen to the sky, Zheng Lixin. Zheng Lixin's grandfather has made outstanding contributions to China's "Two Bombs and One Star", and is only a short distance from the "Two Bombs and One Star Merit Medal". There is a common saying in the scientific community that Zheng Lixin's grandfather's merits are somewhere between whether or not he can be awarded. The reason why he failed to be the two champions at that time may be due to his family background. Zheng Lixin's grandfather has the same complicated family background as Zhou Guangzhao, the founder of the two bombs, and his brother-in-law works for the Democratic Party's Department of Defense. Zheng Lixin's grandfather was fortunate enough to participate in atomic bomb research when he received guarantees from many comrades. Time flies until now, Grandpa Zheng Lixin came to Zheng Lixin to devote his wisdom to the country loyally. The complex background more than fifty years ago became weaker and weaker. Although Zheng Lixin's grandfather regretted losing the "Two Bombs and One Star Meritorious Medal", his influence in the scientific community should never be ignored.

Xiao Lei didn't know much about the operation of the Chinese authority. He assumed that a scientific family like Zheng Lixin might be able to shelter the Cambrian 2004 project.

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