Technological Hegemony

Chongming Island, an island located between Shanghai and Nantong, Jiangsu, now has a quarter of its land under the name of Xingchen Technology. It is the most important base and testing ground for Xingchen Technology.

Star Technology is also here, and has established a series of facilities including Star University, Star Machinery Research Institute, Star Biological Research Institute, and Star Hotel, making this island far from the city center more prosperous.

From Chongming Island to the south is the Baoshan base of Xingchen Technology, and to the north is the Nantong base. manufacture.

Not long after, the vehicle entered the Xingchen Computing System Research Institute next to Xingchen University. Luo Jia and An Ran got out of the car and entered the supercomputing laboratory, while Xu Chunbiao went to the security center to conduct a surprise inspection of the security team here.

With the growing size of the company, Brother Biao is now an important figure. His team of 6,000 people, all composed of veterans, is responsible for the company's security affairs.

Everything is being prepared in full swing. The test is scheduled to start at midnight. At this moment, hundreds of researchers are making the final inspection and evaluation of the supercomputing system.

Luo Jia met Xu Guangda, the person in charge of the supercomputing laboratory. There were fine beads of sweat on his forehead, and he nervously directed everyone to make preparations. After greeting Luo Jia briefly, Xu Guangda went to work again. Although he is nearly 60 years old, although his energy is not as good as before, his professional attitude is still the same as before.

In fact, domestic universities don’t like Xingchen Technology that much anymore, because their methods of poaching people are really fierce. Xu Guangda was originally the director of the Supercomputing Center of the prestigious Harvard University. He was going to work at the Turing Center of Peking University. But he was intercepted halfway by Xingchen Technology, and dug the famous director Xu into his place, which made Beidakong very happy.

There are countless such glorious deeds. Di Wuchang and his human resources department have long been the thorn in the eyes of all universities and scientific research institutions around the world. Others poach talents, but Star Technology is plundering their IQs. However, all talents must do everything possible to get them into their own companies.

An Ran changed into the white coat she wore in the laboratory, and said excitedly: "It is just a by-product of this computer revolution to let nerds have higher-performance computers, but what we really want is science and supercomputers." !"

"I can't wait to see our supercomputers put into quantum research, controllable fusion, gene analysis, and all the most profound and complex fields, to solve the problems that plague human beings one by one."

Luo Jia understands An Ran's excitement very well. Yes, it is the dream of nerds to have a computer that tastes better. However, people like Luo Jia and An Ran are delusional and want to crack the secret of the black hole.

For ordinary people, supercomputers are not more meaningful than Xiaobawang game consoles. However, supercomputers are the weapons scientists use to fight!

In the past days, those well-known and big Vs have played the rhythm countless times to promote China's huge investment in supercomputing, which is a meaningless waste. After all, supercomputers are weapons of scientists, and the West will never like to arm them The Huaxia people who got up, so those public intellectuals, were dispatched like locusts.

Fortunately, there are still people in this land who are still sober. On June 20, 2016, Sunway TaihuLight was born, ranking first in the world's TOP500 supercomputers.

It kicked off the prelude to the Sino-US supercomputing war!

Subsequently, the powerful Oak Ridge National Laboratory in North America was ordered in a critical situation, and finally in June 2018, two full years after TaihuLight topped the list, it used the powerful supercomputer Summit to knock TaihuLight from the top of the list.

However, the matter did not end here. Just a few months later, when the time came to November 2018, Lawrence Laboratory, another major scientific research giant in North America, once again defeated TaihuLight. Their supercomputer Sierra, its processor The number is even only one-sixth of TaihuLight, but the computing power exceeds TaihuLight, and the world shook for a while, causing a huge blow to the Chinese scientific research community.

So far, this is still not the whole of this supercomputing war. After the continuous confrontation between China and the United States, Neon scientists have also stood up. As of 2019, the top three supercomputers in energy consumption ratio have all been won by Neon. Won the championship, runner-up and third place, and established the global hegemony in the field of cost-effective supercomputing in one fell swoop!

So far, in the supercomputing war initiated by China, only Taihu Light is left, which ranks third in the global supercomputing performance list. In the rest of the sub-lists, the Huaxia Legion has been wiped out.

The only way is the number of supercomputers. Since China topped the global TOP500 with 169 supercomputers in 2016, the champion has never been left behind.

Although Huaxia has never been afraid of anyone compared to the number of top-level supercomputers, more than 200 of the most powerful 500 supercomputers are in China, but the computer industry is generally very clear that there is really a gap in technology between China and the United States , After all, we don't have a real high-performance CPU.

An Ran curled her lips and said, "When I was studying in North America, almost every university, even high school, had its own supercomputer, and it was open to students for free. Such a rich resource is really enviable."

Luo Jia nodded lightly, resources are really important, just like you want your son to be tall and strong in the future, not to be bullied when he goes out, don’t be cowardly when he meets black and white people, just do it, then you have to give it to him first The son supplements meat and feeds him steamed buns and rice every day, which can only cultivate a white and tender little fat man.

In the same way, assuming that Huaxia wants to lead the world in talent and science, first of all, it must have world-leading supercomputing resources to cultivate children's interest since childhood. The teacher leads a group of junior high school students to simulate the Big Bang on supercomputing, and it is only a short distance from realizing this goal. ,there's still a long way to go.

Under the leadership of Xu Guangda, the supercomputing experiment started on time at midnight.

In the eyes of ordinary people, a supercomputer is just a little bigger and a little more processors, but the truth is not that simple.

A series of complex issues such as the underlying design of the supercomputing, the topological network configuration, the interaction bandwidth between processors, etc., determine the upper limit of a supercomputing.

Assuming that as long as stacking processors is enough, then there will be no supercomputing wars in this world, and there will be no supercomputing hegemony. After all, no one can stack blocks, just stack them for fun.

Therefore, the most important thing about supercomputing is the design concept and bandwidth interaction. The experimental supercomputing of Star Technology, the bandwidth interaction chip comes from the next-generation 0.1nm technology, and the design concept comes from the distant extraterrestrial civilization, so as its design Or, Luo Jia didn't seem very excited, but just sat there calmly, watching the newly released test data, watching the gradually flushed faces of his colleagues, and listening to their more and more excited voices.

Finally, after a few hours of adjustments, the Xingchen Experimental supercomputer reached the design speed, hundreds of billions of times per second!

Most people may not understand, what is the concept of hundreds of billions of times per second?

Let's put it this way, the most powerful supercomputing in the global design at present, the goal is exascale, such as Tianhe-3, and there are only three countries in the world that have clearly stated that they want to hit the exascale supercomputing mark. , namely Huaxia, North America, and Neon.

Under the premise that most countries in the world dare not even think of supercomputing for tens of billions of times, Xingchen Technology has completed a more advanced supercomputing test of hundreds of billions of times. It has to be said that this is an amazing miracle.

Long live!

The engineers embraced each other, wept with joy, and cheered wildly.

However, after a short celebration, as the east was turned pale, people became quiet again, watching the engineering support team launch four sets of new servers from the hangar, and connect them to the server array that had just been tested.

An Ran sighed deeply, put his arms around his shoulders, and said nervously: "The distributed neuron free network computing system, referred to as the neural computing network, is too crazy. I hope your design can be successful."

Luo Jia smiled slightly, with a relaxed look on his face.

The technology and experience from extraterrestrial civilizations made Luo Jia confident that the neural computing network would be successful.

Moreover, once this technology from the golden dome comes out, it will completely overturn the whole world like sparks hitting the earth!