Chapter 74 Global Supercomputing Ranking
Some people are determined to do great things in life, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they benefit the country and the people more than Mount Tai.
When we were destitute and destitute, those heroes who gave up the favorable conditions abroad and returned to China with two bombs and one star.
Their dedication and noble sentiments are worthy of praise by the entire nation for generations to come.
Compared to these people, the vast majority of ordinary people seem to live just to earn a living.
They do not have extraordinary wisdom to change the future, nor do they have enough financial resources to change the present.
However, these ordinary people are not all mediocre and ignorant people.
As the ancients said: "If you are poor, you can benefit yourself; if you are rich, you can help the world!"
Mediocre ordinary people are unable to contribute wealth and wisdom to the country and the nation.
However, whenever the life and death of the nation is in danger, whenever the country is in need.
As long as someone raises their arms and shouts, these ordinary people will not hesitate to stand up and sacrifice their courage and even their precious lives.
At this moment, everyone will shout out a shocking sentence: "I have no regrets about entering China in this life. I am lucky to be born in a flower-growing family!"
Although Ni Nanguang did not catch up with the period of two bombs and one satellite, when the semiconductor industry rose, when integrated circuits became an important strategic resource in the next century.
Not only did he give up the favorable conditions abroad, he even sold everything he owned.
He turned his personal wealth into scientific instruments and brought them back to the country.
People like him never care about personal gains and losses, but only want to serve the country and the people.
It’s a pity that he was expelled from the company he co-founded by a ‘foreign comprador’!
I thought that this life would be a dim fall, and all my ideals and ambitions would turn into brilliant fireworks for a moment.
However, who would have thought that God would give him another chance to pursue his dream.
And this opportunity can even change the future of the entire nation.
"I can cooperate with you unconditionally..." Ni Nanguang didn't hesitate for too long before making the decision to change his destiny.
"But..." Although Ni Nanguang made his own decision, integrated circuits are not a career that can be achieved by one person. This is a systematic project that requires the gathering of elites from all over the country to break through.
"I understand your concerns, and we have made a three-part agreement on this.
First, I don’t see any leaders, and I don’t agree with these people coming to the company.
Second, you have to do everything you can to give all the credit for overcoming technical difficulties to you. The purpose of doing this is to ensure that these patents will belong to the company. I really can't trust anyone else.
Third, I have the final say on the direction of future research and development and will not accept any interference from superior leaders.
In order to ensure our independence, I will not apply for even a dime of funding from my superiors. All funds will be borne by my company." Su An does not want the company to be interfered by leaders in charge of the semiconductor industry, nor does he want them to
People can come to visit the company with any excuse or reason.
After all, these people's visits will be accompanied by a large number of media photos.
In the future, in your own factory, it will not be as simple as company secrets.
This kind of secret cannot be exposed to the outside world under any circumstances.
"Okay, I can assure you!
Over the years, I have gained some experience in dealing with superiors.
I will take care of all the problems in this area." Ni Nanguang promised seriously.
However, seeing his earnest assurance, Su An actually felt unsure.
To be honest, if the superior leaders had supported Ni Nanguang back then.
How could he be kicked out?
After all, at that time, the Chinese Academy of Sciences was the company’s major shareholder.
“In addition to hardware, you also need to use your connections to take the lead in building a software team.
Whether it is industrial design software or the operating system of future computers, work needs to be started immediately.
As for the operating system, I can build a ready-made system.
This is an operating system developed based on Linux.
These things are not difficult. The most difficult thing is industrial design software, especially chip design software.
In the past few days, you should plan your ideas, especially find suitable helpers to start building a team.
When forming a team, you must have a confidentiality classification system in place. Each team must be divided into different sub-teams to ensure that each layer knows different secrets. It must be ensured that the secrets will not be leaked." Su An can explain.
There are only so many, and in this situation we can only take risks.
"It's not a big problem for ordinary talents, but now that I'm a part-time employee, and I suddenly make such a big noise...it doesn't matter if I arouse others' suspicion.
At worst, I'll tell my colleagues that I got R&D funds from a rich company.
However, even if you have money, you may not be able to attract top talents to join.
Without the involvement of superiors, the situation in our country is not as easy as that in foreign countries.
Especially for an unknown small company, it is even more difficult to recruit top talents. "Ni Nanguang is a little worried. If a large company like Lenovo wants to recruit people, there may be no problem.
How could a group of top talents from national brands suddenly put aside all honors and achievements within the system to find a new job in a small start-up company?
People go to higher places, and water flows to lower places.
No one wants to be the person who gets worse as he gets worse.
After reaching a certain social level, even people who no longer care about face will care more or less about it.
"Do you dislike my small temple? If so, we will make a big move and nominate the company.
In two weeks at most, I will let the whole world know that we have an amazing technology company in our country." If you don't care about making money and just want to gain a reputation, Su An has plenty of options.
Ni Nanguang wanted to ask for details, but in the end he held back his words.
Since it was already late, Su An made an appointment with Ni Nanguang to go to the company to apply for employment tomorrow and then left the community.
Although it was almost 1 o'clock when we returned to the hotel, Su An was extremely excited and not sleepy at all.
The big move Su An thought of was to rank up in the supercomputing rankings!
The current supercomputer, the Dawn 2000ii computer produced by the country in 1999, has a speed of 111.7 billion operations per second!
In the same year, foreign teams achieved a supercomputing speed of 4.9 trillion operations per second.
The difference in strength between the two sides is huge, and it’s not just about the investment of money.
By 2002, foreign supercomputing teams had increased the speed to 52 trillion operations per second. It is said that the CPU of this computer is larger than a double-door refrigerator.
This time, Su An did not plan to kill the list in a head-on and forceful way. After all, this method would face an embarrassing problem, which was to convince the whole world.
You can't just spit out a number and have the whole world believe it.
In order to prevent these people from actually getting close to his supercomputer, Su An plans to use real computing cases to let the world guess how terrifying his supercomputer's computing speed is.
And this computing case is the famous Go killer-Alfa Dog.
As long as my Alpha Dog is in an undefeated position.
It will naturally attract the attention of the world. When the time comes to announce the calculation method of this computer when playing Go, foreign teams should be able to calculate their own computing power.
In addition, every time he plays against Gao, Suan not only arranges the entire live broadcast, but can also safely review the game after the game.
Through this chess game, we can more accurately predict the computing power.
When the time comes, even if I don’t even mention ‘supercomputing’, I will obediently place myself at the top of the world’s supercomputing rankings.
With this top position, at least in terms of technology, I will surpass that 'foreign comprador' company. At least in terms of reputation!
The AlphaGo team has already published everything online. Not only can you download the original code, but you can also copy the entire hardware architecture.
Everything is public information, it's nothing more than spending some money.
In the 2016 version of AlphaGo, 1202 CPUs, 176 graphics cards, and more than 100 computing accelerator cards were used.
In 2016, the computing speed of this computer reached 3.3 petaflops.
One is at the quadrillion level and the other is at the trillion level. The huge difference between the two will shock the whole world.
"Who would have thought that after returning to 2002, we would have to deal with mining cards..." Su An felt a little ridiculous.
However, if you want to build your own supercomputer, mining cards will naturally become the best thing to use.
There is no need to consider the 30 series graphics cards. Just 2,000 2080ti cards are enough to kill the world in an instant. It even dominated the list until 2008.
"Mining card, mining card..." Su An opened the salted fish.
At this time, I don’t know how many mine owners will be happy because of Su An’s purchase.
Chapter completed!