Chapter 072: Supercomputer!

"Academician Kim Min-chul also values your level in high-precision floating-point arithmetic algorithms, and he hopes that you can participate in this project. Huang Lao said with a smile, she was very happy that she could have such a disciple.

"Huang Lao, during the summer vacation, I developed and designed a graphics processor with Brother Hu Yibo, which is much stronger than a general-purpose processor in handling floating-point arithmetic, and I think the graphics processor can also be mounted on a supercomputer. Yang Jie's eyes lit up, and he suddenly thought that the GU he developed could be used on the supercomputer developed by Academician Jin Minzhe.

"This is a very innovative idea!" Huang Lao was also a little excited: "Let's go over now, you can talk about your ideas in detail with Academician Jin Minzhe." ”

Yang Jie knew that the Tianhe-2 supercomputer developed by the National Supercomputer Center established in Yangcheng in his previous life used thousands of GU-he-U and adopted a heterogeneous fusion design scheme, with extremely powerful performance and a supercomputing capacity of 54.9 billion times, ranking on the supercomputing list for a long time.

Now Huayue Electronics Co., Ltd. is producing U and Gu, which can be used on supercomputers, and it can be regarded as opening up a use for Huaxing Technology Company in advance.

Not long after, Yang Jie took Huang Lao's car to the newly established National Parallel Computer Research Center institution.

Yang Jie followed Huang Lao to the office building after getting out of the car, and when he came to Jin Minzhe's office, Jin Minzhe was discussing something with more than a dozen people.

"Oh, Huang Lao, you're here!" The old man with some white hair and glasses on his temples saw Huang Lao come in, and said in surprise, and the other people also greeted Huang Lao one after another.

"This is Yang Jie, right? Kim Min-chul said to Yang Jie with a smile.

"Hello Academician Jin, I'm Yang Jie. Yang Jie said respectfully.

The rest of the room looked surprised, they also knew that there was a genius boy in the computer, and when they saw the real person, they still thought he was too young.

"I just told Jay about your plan to develop a supercomputer, and he has some ideas. Huang Lao said with a smile.

"Oh, Jay, you tell me about it. Kim Min-chul asked with interest.

"Well, during the summer vacation, I designed a graphics processor, and through our tests, this processor is 40 times more capable of floating-point and parallel operations than general-purpose processors, and if we can increase the video memory, the processing speed can be even higher. Yang Jie said.

"What? You designed the graphics processor? How did you do it?" Kim Min-chul asked with a shocked face, no wonder, the graphics cards on the market now rely on the computing power of the U itself, and there is no processor independent of the U at all, and it is the first time he has heard of a special graphics processor.

"Academician Jin, in fact, when I was designing the processor before, I thought that there are only 20% transistors inside the processor for calculation, which inevitably causes the problem of insufficient computing ability when you deal with many complex operations, so I have the idea of designing a processor specifically designed to deal with complex graphics operations, the processor design has been completed, tape-outs have also been carried out, packaging and testing have also been completed, and my company's R&D personnel are writing drivers and designing circuits. ”

Yang Jie had already worked out a technical plan for the production of graphics cards before coming to Yanjing, and the R&D personnel were advancing according to his plan, and there were several experienced engineers in the team, and the work behind him would not be stagnant because he came to Yanjing.

"Jie, can you ask your company to send a graphics processor over for testing?" Jin Minzhe hurriedly asked.

Yang Jie's words just now made Jin Minzhe ecstatic, if it is really like what he said, then this will open a new world for him to design a supercomputer, and he has reason to believe that he can build a new supercomputer that only Huaxia can master!

However, he still maintained a little doubt about Yang Jie's words: Can this teenager really design such an advanced graphics processor? The high-end graphics card produced by Turk only realizes a large number of coordinates and light source conversion through hardware, you don't have to calculate a large amount of lighting data, you can get better performance directly through the graphics card, and at the same time, the D model can be depicted with more polygons to get a more delicate effect, but it still relies on the computing power of U itself, he can design a graphics processor independent of U, how did he do it?

"Of course, I'm going to call someone from my company today and ask them to fly over right away. Yang Jie said with a smile.

"Come on, tell me about the design of this graphics processor and how it works with you. Jin Minzhe said impatiently, he saw Huang Lao here, scratched the back of his head and said with a smile: "Huang Lao, your student is really a genius, I want to call him over to participate in the whole process of engineering research and development, do you have no opinion?"

"It's a very good thing for him to be involved in such a project, and I'm too happy to have any opinions. Huang Lao said with a smile, she was really happy for Yang Jie.

"Academician Jin, I know that you have a high degree of attainment in the development of supercomputers, and I also want to learn a lot of technical experience from you. Yang Jie said with a smile that he had not been exposed to the research and development of supercomputers in his previous life, and it was also a surprise for him to have such a great opportunity this time.

"Jay, you're here to talk freely, specifically about your technical ideas. Huang Lao said.

"Yes, Huang Lao. Yang Jie nodded, so he talked about some of his design ideas for this graphics processor in front of Jin Minzhe and his technical team.

"That's right, the graphics processor I designed has a shader core mechanism module, not only including the "three-pipeline {ri-i}" design, but also including the triangle su module, rasterization module, axis blanking module, unit, ilig module and some thread control modules specially designed for general computing and "three pipelines", the graphics processor I designed has 16 shaders, and also designed some main management modules, cache, memory controllers that can be memory or u cache...... ”

Yang Jie will be the architecture of the graphics processor, the functional module and the operation process, of course, he will not say the specific instructions in this, these are the core technical patents.

After talking for a few hours, he finally finished talking about the functional module and the calculation process, and Kim Min-chul and the others were also shocked.

"Huang Lao, to be able to design such a graphics processor requires the help of many top international computing experts, Huang Lao, didn't your computer research institute also provide help?" asked Jin Minzhe in disbelief.

Huang Lao shook his head: "Jie took a few of my students to complete it independently, and the algorithms involved in it were all completed by himself. ”

"Amazing, amazing!" Jin Minzhe excitedly shook Yang Jie's hand and said: "Jie, with the graphics processor you designed, I believe it won't take long for us to increase the computing power of our country's supercomputer to 300 trillion times and build a national weapon!"

His previous doubts were swept away by Yang Jie's explanation just now, and at this time, he also had the idea of integrating the new architecture of U and graphics processor in his heart, and he was also excited in his heart.

Now the computing power of domestic supercomputers is only a few hundred trillion times, before he proposed to hg yag lig da the idea of developing a 300 trillion supercomputer, many people are skeptical, his pressure is still very great, I didn't expect to hear such a big good news today, his confidence is also soaring.

This Yang Jie is really a lucky star sent by God to the country and this project!

In the afternoon, Yang Jie and Huang Lao took a car back to the Computer Research Institute.

"Jie, I am very happy that you can contribute to such a major project of the country!" Huang Lao looked at Yang Jie with a look of appre批评and said.

"Grandma Huang, I am also very excited and happy to think that the graphics processor I designed can be used for such a major project. ”

Yang Jie is also deeply glad in her heart for her decision to choose to become an old student of Huang, if it weren't for this, she would not have the opportunity to contact an academician like Kim Minzhe now, and she would not have participated in such a major project.

At this time, he is also holding an attitude of humble learning and is ready to ask Academician Jin for supercomputer technology, he knows that there are many masters in supercomputer architecture in China, Academician Jin Minzhe is one of the leaders, if you can learn from him, this is a very rare opportunity for him, he will never miss it.