97. The new base laboratory was formed
At present, the fastest supercomputer on the global supercomputing list is the "Tianhe-1" developed by the China National University of Defense Technology, with a peak of 2,750 trillion floating-point operations per second.
For comparison, the average home computer is about 10 to 2 billion operations per second.
It is not difficult to see that the computing speed of Tianhe-1 is about 2 million times that of ordinary computers.
The supercomputer that the new team is going to build this time does not need to sprint to the record of Tianhe-1, and the manpower, material resources and time are not allowed.
They only need to build a supercomputer with about 300 trillion floating-point operations per second, and then fuse it with a brain-like architecture system to simulate a quantum computer to solve the current urgent need.
There is still more than half a month before the Chinese New Year, and the new team has the full support of Huaxia Electronic Technology Group behind it, even if Ding Sheng does not participate, the new team can complete the task within this time.
After all, at present, the two most important parts of this task, "system" and "supercomputer", the system has been ready-made, and the processor of the supercomputer is slightly modified on the basis of Intel processor and AMD image processor, which is basically ready-made, and there is no difficulty in the whole task.
Ding Sheng was also happy not to mix in.
Building a quantum computer on your own is much more onerous than anyone else's.
First of all, the processor of a quantum computer, or quantum chip, is not readily available on the earth, and Ding Sheng must make it himself.
If it weren't for the equipment support provided by the state, Ding Sheng would have to pay at least about 30 times the time cost to get the same result.
Of course, the best material for making quantum chips is nanocrystals, but this thing needs to be slowly tinkered with after Ding Sheng, and there is no such thing on the earth now, so we can only use ready-made materials in the forty-four institutes.
That is, everyone likes to see "silicon".
There is no way, Ding Sheng can only use some special black technology methods from Marvel to refine, and then use it, and when the industrial level of space-time technology comes up in the future, he will immediately change the nanocrystals.
If silicon is used, then the method of making the original quantum chip will also need to be overhauled.
Going around and around, Ding Sheng can't get around the word cottage in his life.
Guan Ju calculates which of the five schemes, namely atom-cavity interaction, cold trap bound ions, electron or nuclear spin resonance, quantum dot manipulation, and superconducting quantum interference, is the best match with silicon atomic qubits. ”
"If you have to choose one, let's just manipulate quantum dots. ”
To be honest, none of these options are very suitable, so Guan Ju thought about it for a long time.
The plan is determined, and the construction will start immediately.
After getting acquainted with the many equipment needed in the laboratory, Ding Sheng spent a whole day building the first quantum chip.
If he had only wanted to build a single-core quantum computer, he would have done more than half of it by now.
Look, he said it's not that hard to build a quantum computer.
However, don't underestimate quantum chips, it's not simple at all.
Quantum computers can be based on qubits, and the advantage over the bits of traditional digital computers can be said to be crushing.
In order to save trouble, he made the interface of the quantum chip into the mainstream pin in the world, although some performance was sacrificed, but it can be convenient to customize the motherboard.
Seeing that there was no one around, Ding Sheng took out the 5230 and cloned a speed test port in the laboratory.
"Guan Ju, prepare for the speed test. ”
“...... The current speed peaks, peaking at 3011.25 trillion floating-point operations per second. Guan Ju was reporting the data obtained in Ding Sheng's brain at any time.
"So slow?"
With a Tianhe No. 1, Ding Sheng is not satisfied.
Ding Sheng knew that changing raw materials, manufacturing plans, and interfaces would all have an impact on the processing speed of quantum chips, but he really didn't expect that the impact would be so big.
Although the speed of Tianhe-1 is already the fastest in the world, for Ding Sheng, it is actually no different from a snail.
No, far less than a snail.
Let's put it this way, among the Marvel black technology he currently has in his hands, the difficulty is in the first gear of the "Pym particles", the most important part of which is the reduction of the atomic spacing, if Tianhe-1 is used to run one of the data, it will take about 30 years.
You say, Ding Sheng can't afford to wait?
But where there is a little bit of nanocrystals, this speed should be increased geometrically.
So it's understandable that Ding Sheng is difficult to accept.
Fortunately, Tianhe-1 uses more than 6,000 Intel processors and more than 5,000 AMD image processors to achieve the current effect.
In order to make quantum computers faster, Ding Sheng naturally will not use a single core.
Thanks to the privilege that the new team members can freely use the laboratory 24 hours a day, Ding Sheng has the blessing of the super soldier physique, he doesn't sleep all day long, and spends most of his time in the laboratory.
It is the level of 100 Tianhe-1.
So is this data exaggerated?
Definitely.
It is said that Yamato will soon launch a supercomputer with a speed of more than 8,000 trillion operations per second, which will greatly refresh the record of Tianhe-1 and become the king of a new generation of supercomputers.
According to Guan Ju's calculations, by 2018 at the latest, a supercomputer 100 times faster than Tianhe-1 will be built on the earth.
Looking at it this way, after the quantum computer in Ding Sheng's hand was built, it was only 7 years ahead of the world, which is indeed not fast.
Again, when the nanocrystalline version of the quantum chip is made in the future, and then 35780000 pieces are mass-produced to build a super-large quantum computer, it will be called a flying feeling!
It's exciting to think about.
After the completion of the quantum chip, Ding Sheng began to make another core configuration of the quantum computer, the quantum memory.
This is much simpler than quantum chips and doesn't take much time.
All in all, Ding Sheng relied on the length of his stay all the way and successfully completed the mission plan of the 44th Institute within the expected time.
The team's task was progressing in an orderly manner, and he didn't need Ding Sheng's help, so he took advantage of this time to give himself a winter vacation.
"Guan Ju, how is the matter of customizing the host configuration and peripherals?"
The quantum computer built by Ding Sheng this time, except for the core except the processor and supporting memory, the other parts are ready to be tricked and put on the shell of a supercomputer.
After deciding to use the mainstream interface, he asked Guan Ju to customize the most sophisticated host suite in the world.
"We will be able to arrive in the neighboring state tomorrow. ”
"What about the equipment and materials needed to make a hologram installation?"
"It's already in the neighboring state. ”
With less than ten days to go before the Chinese New Year, Ding Sheng's next thing to do is to return to the new base, build a quantum computer in the laboratory, and create a holographic image device.
In addition, it has reached the end of the year, and the machinery and equipment of Fengshi Mold Factory have all been completed.
Since then, it has been seventy percent similar to the Stark Lab shown in the "Iron Man" movie.
Ding Sheng finally has a laboratory where he can show his strength.