Subsequently, several people went to IBM Huaxia Capital Branch to discuss the purchase of mainframe computers.

Among the four, Lou Bingcheng is Yao Qizhi's apprentice, and Su Xiangqi is a well-known hardware engineer in Guanzhong Village, and he can be said to be unambiguous in terms of technical details.

Although Xiao Bin's understanding of computers is average, after such a long period of experience, the level of bargaining and negotiation is perfect, and he is full of firepower for IBM's offer.

After some selection, the hardware, instruction system and other equipment were complete, and finally Lin Han purchased an IBM-Z14 enterprise-level mainframe computer that is good at artificial intelligence/machine learning at a price of 112 million yuan.

This more than 100 million yuan, including hardware, supporting software and after-sales maintenance business, is basically the most outstanding mainframe that Huaxia enterprises can buy at IBM.

The performance of this thing can be said to be very strong, with thousands of processors totaling 120,000 computing cores, 240TB of memory, and 2PB of external memory...... Compared to any personal computer, I don't know how high it is.

During this period, there was something that made Lin Han feel quite surprised, after buying the mainframe, Su Xiangyuan actually found him, saying that he wanted to change his working environment and join the meteorological company.

Lin Han was very surprised and asked: "My company is still in the entrepreneurial stage, but it is not as good as your current company." ”

Su Xiangyuan said: "Because of this, I want to join, and I will fight again while I am not old...... There's no passion here anymore. ”

"Brother, you're almost forty, are you still working so hard, don't you plan to start a family?"

Su Xiangyuan shook his head and sighed: "I don't want to toss about marriage anymore, anyway, I have seen through it, and I am ...... Note that Gusheng, let's work hard for a career, maybe there is hope to go to the next level. ”

He is in Guanzhong Village, the capital, and can get an annual salary of millions of dollars, which shows that his technical ability is absolutely first-class. Since he is willing to join, Lin Han naturally welcomes such talents.

"In that case, Vientiane welcomes you to join!"

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The four of them quickly rushed from the capital to Qinglin County, settled in the office building of the meteorological company that had been rented a long time ago, and the recruitment of personnel and the establishment of facilities were carried out in an orderly manner.

The company's location is located in Qinglin County Development Zone, which is the emptiest area in the county at this stage, with a fairly low population density, and the land price and housing prices are naturally very cheap.

Not to mention this rented office building, it is the 800 acres of raw land set up nearby for the future headquarters of Vientiane, and it is only more than 10 million yuan to be acquired, which is almost half sold and half given away by the county government.

According to Lin Han's vision, this land will be built into a large-scale science and technology park including the Vientiane headquarters building in the future, just like Apple's newly built headquarters, which is luxurious and connotative......

Of course, this is definitely a huge investment, although the land should be taken as soon as possible, but the specific construction work should be put back.

However, regarding the construction plan of the Vientiane headquarters, including the design of the main building, Lin Han has begun to reverie in his heart from time to time, but he has some general ideas......

The IBM-Z14 mainframe was shipped and installed in the main engine room of Vientiane Weather Services.

The huge body, the black shell, and the light blue light full of science fiction, of course, its hundreds of millions of dollars...... Let this mainframe computer be filled with fascinating colors.

The programmers in the company, including Lou Bingcheng, Su Xiangyuan, and technicians from the Provincial Meteorological Bureau, were all quite excited.

Lin Han immediately made arrangements: "In the next month, we will do further development based on Dr. Lou's weather simulator, which is required to make full use of the computing power and machine learning functions of the Z14." ”

Su Xiangyuan asked: "Should this further development plan have a name?"

Lin Han smiled: "The name has been thought of, it is the "Rain Master 1.0 Project", and the prediction program finally developed is named "Rain Master 1.0". ”

"Lou Bingcheng is the leader of the development team of the rain division, responsible for the overall progress of development and software content, Su Xiangyuan and Gong Han are the deputy leaders of the development team, Su Xiangyuan is responsible for the hardware, and Gong Han is responsible for the docking ...... of meteorological data"

Gong Han is one of the meteorological technicians sent by the Provincial Meteorological Bureau, in his thirties, graduated from Handong University in atmospheric physics, and has a silent personality.

Lou Bingcheng said at this time: "Mr. Lin, when can we get more detailed meteorological data?"

"In a month's time...... Fifty to one hundred sets of ultra-detailed meteorological data will be sent to the calculation center here. ”

After a pause, Lin Han continued: "So within a month, the further development of the weather simulator must achieve certain results, at least it can fully adapt to the hardware and software of Z14." ”

"Rain Master 1.0, officially entered the development process today!"

A group of technicians are in place and start to get busy, and the computing behemoth Z14 is also started, and the air conditioning in the computer room is sprayed thin......

As the most important part of weather services, "Rain Master 1.0" can be said to be the core technology of Vientiane.

In addition to the efforts of the engineers and the powerful computing power of the Z14, Lin Han's intermediate meteorological authority is naturally indispensable.

So in the next month, Lin Han almost didn't show up again, he was bored at home, holding the meteorological data provided by the Provincial Meteorological Bureau, and with the help of software and the meteorological information of Handong Province in his own perception, he continued to refine the meteorological map.

The meteorological data provided by the Provincial Meteorological Bureau are issued by various meteorological monitoring stations.

Due to the sparse distribution of meteorological monitoring stations, the meteorological data is correspondingly coarse. Large areas with significant discrepancies often do not get cashed out in the data.

In Lin Han's perception, the wind and rain in the entire Handong Province are all in the red, and it can almost be said that it is as accurate as it is.

It's just that because he doesn't have an intuitive concept of meteorological information, he needs to have accurate data from meteorological monitoring stations for comparison.

For example, in Lin Han's perception, the hot and cold situation in various places can be said to be very clear, Luzhou is hotter than Jingzhou, and Jingzhou is hotter than Yunzhou......

However, he didn't know how hot or cold these places would be, and what they would be when converted into numbers.

But if the degree of heat and cold in one place is exactly the same as that at a meteorological monitoring station, he can know the temperature in another place based on the accurate data provided by the meteorological monitoring station.

For example, the temperature of the meteorological monitoring station of the county government of Qinglin County is 25.0 °C, and then Lin Han can use software to mark all the areas with the same degree of cold and heat as the county government seat in his perception as 25.0 °C, which is no different from several times more meteorological monitoring stations out of thin air.

A meteorological map provided by the Provincial Meteorological Bureau, after Lin Han's thousands of annotations, became a new ultra-detailed version of the meteorological map after a few hours, and the density of data skyrocketed!