Chapter 384: Supercomputing Ranking
Unlike other conferences, there were few amateur audiences, and the participants were high-end talents who worked in scientific research or had certain qualifications.
At the beginning of the conference, a hundred flowers bloomed. Various enterprises and institutions have brought their latest technology or product display, and the most cutting-edge technology can be seen everywhere here.
Coming here, Lu Zixin's biggest emotion is that the strength of China's high-tech industry is still too weak.
Here, you can see scientific research institutions and high-tech enterprises from the Americas and Europe everywhere, but there are very few from China, and you can count them on your fingers.
Lianxiang, Corry, Penguin, Birch, Dawn, Tide...... These are the top Chinese enterprises in the computer, data and information industries, so they can come here to attend the meeting.
In the venue, Mr. Lu was talking to several foreigners, who were members of the IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery.
"Mr. Lu, this is the first time for Hongxin Group to participate in the Global Supercomputing Conference, and I would like to welcome you on behalf of IEEE. Vice President Tolan Bell said politely.
"Thank you, we are also honored to participate in such an academic event. Lu Zixin replied with a salute, and he shook hands with several people next to him.
"Mr. Lu, this time you Hongxin Group is attending the meeting as a high-tech computer enterprise, I don't know what achievements Hongxin Group has in this regard, can you let us see and understand?" an American was the first to ask.
His name is Plitt and he is an honorary fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the head of a computer research center at IBM International Business Machines Corporation.
"yes, I'm curious too. As far as I know, Huaxia's Huawei and other enterprises all participated in the conference as hardware suppliers or information and data industry, and only Hongxin Group participated in the conference in the name of the computer industry. Another person said, "And the most strange thing for me is that in addition to computer software, you also have computer hardware in the participation information form, and I don't know what computer hardware products Hongxin Group has?"
This person's words were obviously contemptuous and hostile, and several Americans next to him also looked at Lu Zixin and the others with the same eyes.
Lu Zixin was not familiar with them, but he also understood where their hostility came from. When Hongxin entered the U.S. market strongly, it almost offended U.S. high-tech companies in terms of tariffs, intellectual property fees, market share, and so on.
These people, more or less have interests in those companies, and it is normal for them to be not very friendly to Hongxin.
Especially now that Hongxin clearly wants to enter the computer industry, which makes them feel a sense of crisis, and this kind of speech also has the meaning of agitation, wanting to explore the next intention of Hongxin Group.
Tolan Bell also looked at Lu Zixin with a smile and did not speak, obviously his attitude was the same as that of the others.
"Computer hardware, Hongxin Group is doing, and has achieved certain results, I believe everyone will see it soon. Lu Zixin's answer was very tactful, and it was the same as not saying it.
The other party was not satisfied, and Pulit continued: "I am very much looking forward to seeing the emergence of Hongxin brand computers in the future, just like your Huaxia Lianxiang computer, which is also very good. ”
"By the way, if Hongxin Group needs it, we are more than happy to provide the necessary hardware. ”
On the surface, there seems to be no problem with what he said, but in fact, there is some intentional or unintentional contempt. Because although the computer of Lianxiang Group is a brand of Huaxia, the main hardware in the computer is a foreign product.
IBM, where Pulit works, is also a major supplier of hardware to Lianxiang Group, and in their eyes, Huaxia's computers are just assemblies with a shell, and all the core things come from them.
Lu Zixin said with a smile, "I think so too, if you need our Hongxin Group to provide hardware services in the future, we are also willing to cooperate." ”
Several Americans smiled, as if they had heard a joke.
Tolan Bell stopped the topic and said, "Mr. Lu, it's coming to the Global Supercomputer Ranking Conference soon, why don't we go together?"
That's exactly what I mean. Lu Zixin nodded.
At this conference, the organizers will work with the international TOP500 organizations to jointly select and release the world's top 500 supercomputers with computing speed.
This is not only to attract the public's attention to the computer field, but also to fiercely compete with each other and promote the development of the industry.
In the venue, Lu Zixin met several friends. Wu Zhigao, President of Huawei Group, Bai Chenghui, President of Lianxiang Group, and several experts from the Computer Technology Research Center of the Chinese National Academy of Sciences.
"A few friends from Huaxia, what do you think the top 3 supercomputers should be this year?" asked Tolan Bell suddenly.
"There are several top-performing supercomputers in the world this year, but if you want to say TOP3, there are definitely two that belong to our Huaxia. A computer expert from Huaxia said proudly, "Huaxia Shenwei supercomputer has been ranked first in supercomputers several times in a row, and there is also the Tianhe-2 supercomputer, there will definitely be no problem in entering the top three!"
"Hahaha!" Tolan Bell laughed and said, "The performance of those two supercomputers in Huaxia is indeed good, but this year, the situation may be a little different. ”
"Different?" several computer experts in Huaxia looked puzzled, "Could it be that some organization has developed a supercomputer with stronger performance?"
"I'm going to surprise you!" Pulit said confidently, and judging by his tone, it seemed as if a supercomputer with faster computing speed was really on the horizon.
Everyone entered the venue and began to evaluate the supercomputer. In addition to the data collected by the international TOP500, participants can also provide their own up-to-date supercomputer data, review them and then rank them.
As soon as everyone arrived at the venue, they heard a heated discussion.
"The Titan No. 2 supercomputer has a computing speed that surpasses the previous No. 1 Huaxia Shenwei supercomputer!"
"More than a billion floating-point operations per second!"
"Our American supercomputer is still the strongest in the world!"
"Titan Two?" the crowd from Huaxia all looked surprised.
One expert said: "The Titan supercomputer is a supercomputer under the US Department of Energy, which was previously one of the top 10 supercomputers in the world. Could this Titan Two be an improved version of the Titan supercomputer?"
"That's right!" said a member of the Association for Computing Machinery proudly, "the Titan II supercomputer is a more powerful supercomputer improved by Cray Supercomputer Corporation. ”