Chapter 100 Forming a Supercomputing Cluster

Seeing that there are still a lot of alloy parts left, and another one can be assembled, Tu Fei hurriedly called Xiang Gong again, "Xiang Gong, there is still a spare circuit board there, now let someone help me send it to me, the previous one is burned out." ”

He now regrets that he ordered fewer parts at the beginning, if he could have ten, or even a hundred universal craftsmen, he would be able to build the base into a super-first-class technology base.

But now the funds are also a little tight, if he really orders a hundred sets, he really can't eat.

Taking advantage of this time, Tu Fei took out his computer and began to plan the supporting work of the base based on the 3D stereoscopic map of the base. The formation of a base cannot be done in three or two days, and it is logical that it must be professionally designed and planned by the system, but now he is trying to keep it secret, so everything can only be done by himself.

And he has an advantage that others don't have, and he can find a system to exchange drawings.

The infrastructure has been completed, and he is in a hurry to use it now, so he doesn't have time to get these things, so he can only get the most important parts out for the time being.

Tu Fei went through his thoughts on the drawings, first of all, he had to lay out the water and electricity lines inside the base, and then get the monitoring system up tomorrow, so that he could remotely command the two craftsman robots to work at any time.

Now the main thing is the server, he has to be the first to get it out, otherwise he will have to delay the task.

Just as he was using his brain, the warehouse manager outside informed him that something had been delivered.

Tu Fei hurriedly went over and took the spare circuit board and integrated circuit board, entered the assembly instructions on the mobile app, and the performance of the universal craftsman began again.

The precise and fast movements of the eight robotic arms look so pleasing to the eye, just like art, this is the charm of technology!

In less than a few minutes, another universal craftsman was assembled, and two robots shining with metallic light shone in the light, and the shape of futuristic technology can have a great impact on human vision.

He even has a kind of immediately took out his mobile phone to take a photo of these two and sent it to the circle of friends to show off, what is a luxury car and a mansion, this is the real show off of wealth, who can buy this kind of awesome toy!

But reason suppressed his impulse, although a photo can't explain anything, but it will inevitably be targeted by someone with a heart.

He didn't want to die!

After seeing that there was nothing missing, Tu Fei said: "Okay, Xiaoyi, the drawings of the integrated wiring system have been sent to the terminal, you arrange for the two of them to arrange all the strong and weak electrical lines according to the drawings, and I will let people get the server over later, and form a supercomputing cluster of our own, you help me keep an eye on the two of them, and notify me immediately if there is anything wrong." ”

Xiao Yi replied: "Okay." ”

After arranging this side, Tu Fei gave instructions to the two robots, and the robots began to move rapidly, one on top and one on the bottom, and they cooperated very tacitly.

Seeing this situation, I was relieved to leave the warehouse.

Back in his office, Tu Fei picked up his own, took out his mobile phone, flipped through the phone book and found a number that he hadn't contacted for a long time.

After dialing, I was about to speak, but the other side of the phone spoke first, "Brother Tu, I haven't seen you call me for a long time, if you hadn't paid me on time every month, I would have thought you had run away." ”

Tu Fei laughed, "Boss Chen, I'm not happy when you say that, I originally said that I was going to give you a big business, but now forget it, goodbye to you." ”

"Oh, don't, don't. Chen Fuliang's face turned into a chrysanthemum, "Brother Tu is really rich again, I have always been afraid of disturbing your fortune so I didn't take the initiative to call you, you see brother, I am interested." ”

"Hehe, Boss Chen, you are good at slapping sycophants. ”

"You've wronged me, I'm really afraid of disturbing you. Chen Fuliang suddenly lowered his voice, "Brother, is it that you have made a fortune from mining, and you have to add machines?"

"No, what kind of money can you make from mining, it's just to earn some pocket money, and you have earned most of it. ”

"Hehe, brother, don't say that, I'm also considered to have invested in machines, and I take a big risk, if I hadn't met a real person like you, brother, I wouldn't have taken such a big risk." ”

"Alright, let's not talk about that. Tu Fei waved his hand, "Let's talk about business, there is a business to see if you can take it." ”

"Yes, absolutely, in Haicheng Computer City, there is no one who can surpass me Chen Fuliang in terms of channels and connections, if even I can't take it, no one else will be able to take it." ”

Tu Fei said helplessly: "I want to set up my own server center, you can see that there is a good plan for me to recommend, I don't have much money here, don't slaughter me as a pig!"

As soon as he heard this, Chen Fuliang's eyes suddenly lit up, this is a big business!

The smile on his face was even bigger, and he hurriedly said: "Don't worry, brother, what is our relationship, I won't pit you, what configuration is needed, except for those high-end experimental models, I can't get it, and I have all the other general configurations." ”

Tu Fei shook his head, "There doesn't need to be anything too extreme, as long as it's generally enough." ”

For example, the national Tianhe-2 supercomputer, which was jointly developed by the National University of Defense Technology and Inspur, ranked first in the world from 2013 to 2014.

However, the performance is piled up with money, the cost is 2.5 billion yuan, and the electricity cost is 400,000 yuan for a day of full load operation.

Just look at its configuration to see why so much money is spent. With so many CPUs, you can see how much CPU manufacturers love supercomputers. However, after the U.S. government embargoes high-end CPUs on China, Intel's sales are estimated to be crying to death.

How do you assemble a supercomputer from a single chip?

The 16,000 computing nodes, which are actually the motherboard, are assembled into 32 frames, then formed into 4 racks, and finally formed a supercomputing system.

There are three basic nodes of a supercomputer: 16,000 compute nodes, 4,096 management nodes, 256 IO nodes, and 64 storage servers.

Let's start with the smallest component: the compute node. 2 x Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs + 3 x Intel Xeon Phi.

CPUs are interconnected with each other using QPI buses, which is generally the case with NUMA architectures. Each CPU has its own DIMM memory, which is 64GB in total. It is also connected to the internal high-speed interconnection network via PCIex16 and GDDR5 memory. GDDR5 memory has a dedicated CPU management. The two 10 Gigabit network cards are estimated to be for management purposes.

The computing performance of such a node can reach up to 3.432 Tflops, and the compute node is physically located on the compute blade server.