"Five billion?"

Everyone in the conference room looked at each other and couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded.

This young man is just young, how dare he say anything? Five billion times! The most advanced Clay-2 supercomputer in the United States is not planned to be completed until 1986, and its computing speed is only 1 billion operations per second.

That's good, it's five times faster than the most advanced supercomputers in the United States.

The researchers here are not young, and they have also come step by step since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Needless to say, many people know what the results of putting satellites are like.

Under the condition that it takes 100 million times for a giant plane to be taken out, it will directly take 5 billion times.

The eyes of everyone looking at Hu Wenhai are a bit similar to the appearance of a layman leading an insider.

"Ahem, I'll explain this. Hu Wenhai was embarrassed and hurriedly said: "I mean, by the end of the 80s, we will produce 5 billion giant aircraft that can equip Iraq." In fact, you have a misconception about this project, this system is not a one-time investment. According to the contract, the entire project is likely to last five years or more. ”

"Five years, does it take that long?"

Hu Wenhai nodded and said cautiously: "It will take at least five years, don't forget, Iraq is now at war." The country's investment in infrastructure construction has grown very slowly under the conditions of war. If we want to build a C3I system that can command the whole country, I think five years will still look highly at Iraq. ”

He chuckled when he said this, and then explained: "So there is a time difference problem, in the early stage, when there are relatively few command nodes, in fact, the current Galaxy 1 can meet the demand. But if it were five years later, Iraq would have built a national network. Not only air defense, but also the integration of command structures such as the air force, army, and navy into the grassroots will require more than 5 billion calculations at this time. So, we have plenty of time to complete the development of the 5 billion megaphones. ”

"...... like this"

"I see!"

None of the people present were not intelligent enough, and they quickly understood the meaning of these words, and suddenly their eyes were shining!

Hu Wenhai's explanation is very obvious. To put it bluntly, this is a five-year long-term meal ticket for the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences!

In this way, it is completely possible to break down the project into several phases. From 500 million times to 1 billion times to 2 billion times, and finally it took five years to come up with a supercomputer of 5 billion times, and the calculation time is actually not so tight.

Most importantly, it makes the project look much better in terms of data.

Five billion supercalculations, not only in Iraq, but also everywhere in China that can be used, and can even be sold abroad!

And for Hu Wenhai. The biggest role of this project is actually to maintain China's supercomputing R&D team.

When the National University of Defense Technology took out the Galaxy 1 with 100 million times per second in 1983, it was not that we put gold on our faces, but that we were really "surprised by our friends".

You must know that IBM's main commercial supercomputer today has a performance of only 100 million times per second of the first-generation Cray machine.

In the whole world, only the United States and Japan can achieve the target of 100 million times per second.

In other words, in fact, we are already standing at the starting line of the world's advanced level at this time. However, it is a pity. In 1983, we were already able to build the Galaxy 1 with 100 million times per second, but the second generation of the billion-per-second Galaxy 2 was not re-developed until the 90s.

In this decade. It is the lost decade of China's supercomputing. But of course, in this time period, it is not only supercomputing research and development that has lost ten years, but also many Chinese scientific research projects have lost ten years.

And most importantly, even the ranks were not preserved, so much so that in the nineties we had money, and everything had to start from scratch again.

"But that's it. We have to import a large number of foreign electronic products, and I am afraid that there will be some difficulties in this regard. ”

Jin Lao is an authority on supercomputing in China, the director of the Supercomputing Engineering Research Center of Future China, a member of the Presidium of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the director of the Department of Electronic Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

In this way, it is basically equivalent to a scholar in China's supercomputing industry.

And the research and development of the next generation of giant machines. Obviously, the person who has the most say in the computing institute is Jin Lao. He said that there will be some difficulties, then there will definitely be some difficulties, that is to say, many products cannot be produced in China.

"Not only that, if the amount of computation reaches 5 billion times, if Jin Lao's parallel computing scheme is adopted, the amount of data exchange between various subsystems will be very large. In terms of switch technology, we must also increase investment. ”

Speaking after Jin Lao was Chen Junliang Chen Lao, who was also in his early fifties this year, and his hair was already a little gray. But unlike Jin Lao, who had messy hair, his hair was meticulously combed, his white shirt was clean, and he sat straight with his head up and chest up when he sat in his seat.

As the developer of China's first program-controlled telephone exchange and the founder of the Dongfanghong-1 satellite data transmission system, Chen Lao is also a scholar-level figure in data exchange.

However, whether it is Jin Lao or Chen Lao, the central idea of their speeches is actually the same - crying poverty.

Hu Wenhai smiled and shook his head: "I heard that Mr. Chen has a project in his hand, which is a local telephone program-controlled switch, right? In this way, I can come up with a million dollars and ask you to transfer the technology of this product to me, what do you think?"

"A million dollars?"

Although Chen Lao was called "old" by Hu Wenhai in his heart, he was by no means old in his fifties in the scientific research world, but it was the time when he was in the prime of life and could make achievements.

In the scientific research community, there are still a lot of 40-year-old "young scholars".

This means that Chen Lao at this time has not seen much of the world. At least, he had never heard of a $1 million in technology transfer fees in China.

"I'm going to ask the leadership of the institute about this, it's not my personal ...... after all."

Chen Lao said this, and suddenly the door of the conference room rang. A "young man" in a gray suit knocked on the door and walked in.

"I'm sorry guys, I'm late. The visitor nodded lightly, walked to a position at the end of the conference table, leaned on a chair and said: "I was entrusted by the minister to attend this meeting, although the chief said that he should come in person, but someone invited him to eat river crabs, so he had to send me over temporarily. ”

"Hehe, it's the same if Secretary Lan can come. Sit, sit. Song Lao waved his hand and said with a smile: "The fact that the Ministry of Electronics Industry can attend this meeting also shows that the country attaches great importance to the next generation of giant machines!"

"Yes, when our minister sent me, he made it clear that Comrade Hu Wenhai's role in this project is very important, and I will fully support his proposal. ”

Secretary Lan sat at the end of the conference table at the door, took out a pen and notepad, and began to record.

However, as soon as he said this, everyone present immediately couldn't calm down.

Such a direct gesture of giving Hu Wenhai a platform, if everyone can't understand it, it can be presumptuously called a high-IQ scientist.

And the support from the Ministry of Electronics Industry, in the eyes of the Computing Institute and Chen Lao, is too intriguing. What is the unusual relationship between the two that can be so closely combined?

For Chen Lao, he really began to think carefully about the possibility of transferring technology to Hu Wenhai. It's not just a question of a million dollars, it's also a question of the ability to transfer and scale up technology. In the 80s, there were a lot of good technologies in China, but it was difficult to see them in the market that could be converted into products. The fate of the vast majority of scientific research results is to be shelved after being appraised by the state, and then remembered at some point, only to find that the opportunity to promote it has been missed.

With the support of the Ministry of Electronics Industry, Chen Lao's program-controlled telephone exchange may have enough production capacity and resources to promote program-controlled telephone exchanges in China. And the transformation of technological achievements into products is what scientists value most in this era.

The significance is like the future online novel author can have a paper published book. This is not only an honor, but also a process of realizing the value of life.

Ni Guangnan was able to be persuaded by Wu Chexing, not because he offered good conditions, but because he promised to turn his dream Chinese character system into a product and bring it to the market.

For scientists in this era, starving and watching others get rich and engage in scientific research on their own is not actually such a little self-realization.

With Secretary Lan's support, Chen Lao was tempted.

Hu Wenhai looked at Secretary Lan and smiled at him slightly. No one knows why Secretary Blue stands behind him, as if no one knows that he has set his sights on Motorola's chip production line, let alone how he is going to realize this plan. However, there will always be people who will look at his previous achievements differently and will choose to bet on him and make some small investment and big return investment.

Hu Wenhai has already made plans for this future chip production line, and it is obviously a very good choice to put it in the magic capital.

"Well, speaking of importing electronics from abroad. Hu Wenhai looked at Jin Lao and said with a smile: "If the Chinese Academy of Sciences can give me some support, I plan to arrange a group of people to go to the United States." Let's see if we can find a wafer factory for them to intern, learn the production technology of the Americans, and build a wafer factory that we Chinese our own international advanced level when they return to China. ”

"Our own wafer factory?" It was not Jin Lao who spoke, but Song Lao, who was sitting at the top, and he frowned cautiously and asked, "Comrade Hu Wenhai, what you said is true?"

"It's true. Hu Wenhai swore an oath. (To be continued......)