PS: In the previous chapter, I accidentally wrote the computing power of "Pearl of the Orient" 5 billion times per second to 500 million times per second, which has been modified! There is another chapter, but it will be relatively late, you can read it again tomorrow morning!

"Mr. Li, can you take the case apart and take a look?" a middle-aged man wearing a cyan suit and glasses asked Li Xuan with a slight apprehension.

Another older man next to him, who looked quite official, hurriedly glared at him, and then turned his head to apologize to Li Xuan: "Mr. Li, I'm sorry! Xiao Zhou is young, inexperienced, and abrupt, I hope you can have more Haihan!"

The person known as Xiao Zhou was at least ten years older than Li Xuan, but he was silent at the moment. Not long ago, in the name of academic exchanges, the Chinese Academy of Sciences conveyed to the Oriental Company through the Hong Kong Xin-Hua Branch that it hoped to come to Hong Kong for visits and exchanges.

After receiving an agreed reply from the Eastern Group, CAS quickly organized a 15-member visiting team, led by a deputy party secretary of CAS. As a matter of fact, among the 15 people who visited Hong Kong this time, only a small number of people came from the Computer Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and many more people came from the National Defense Science and Technology University.

Standing not far from Li Xuan, there was an old man who was a little grateful, he was actually Professor Ci Yungui, vice president of the National Defense University of Science and Technology and director of the Institute of Computer Science. Last year, China successfully developed the first domestically produced supercomputer, Yinhe 1, with a rate of 100 million operations per second. The chief engineer in charge of the project is this old man from the National Defense University of Science and Technology.

The 100 million operations per second of the "Yinhe No. 1" is already a huge breakthrough for the domestic computer industry. But its performance is only equivalent to about 2% of the "Pearl of the Orient", such a huge technological gap makes many people in China naturally very uncomfortable.

But lag behind is not terrible. The most important thing is to constantly catch up with the international advanced level. For domestic supercomputer R&D workers, they rarely have the opportunity to get close to advanced supercomputers abroad. Able to collect technical information on one scale and half claws. Most of them are from foreign periodicals and newspapers.

The middle-aged man named Xiao Zhou asked to open the chassis for a closer look. In fact, it was a test prepared before the visit. In fact, during the delegation's internal discussions, it also thought that its demands were rather unreasonable.

But if you just walk around the computer room, all you can see is rows of iron cabinets, and there is no useful information at all. So they decided to test it anyway, what if the Oriental Company was more generous and willing to let them see the internal structure?

Even if the other party refused, there was no idea of loss for the domestic delegation. And for the sake of safety, the head of the delegation and the deputy secretary of the party group led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was also responsible for singing white faces to play a round.

Li Xuan waved his hand at the deputy secretary and said, "It's okay, it's not something that needs to be kept secret! It's just that the 'Pearl of the Orient' is now in operation." So don't just open the case for you to see!

Not long ago, the Oriental Research Institute and the Hong Kong Observatory reached a cooperation to use the 'Pearl of the Orient' supercomputer to determine whether the next path of Typhoon Andrey, the sixth typhoon of this year, will pass through Hong Kong!

As you can see, the neatly arranged sea-blue chassis in the computer room is actually a node of the 'Pearl of the Orient' supercomputer. The entire 'Pearl of the Orient' supercomputer consists of 75 identical nodes. The core inside each node is 8 S-100A processors for parallel computing. ”

Li Xuan smiled and led everyone out of the computer room to a showroom next to it. In the showroom is a small navy blue case. The lid on the side of the small chassis has been opened, and the structure inside is clear at a glance, and everyone in the visiting group immediately surrounds it.

In fact, it was not only the delegation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences that proposed to take a look at the internal structure of the "Pearl of the Orient" supercomputer. Many other guests before had similar requests.

In particular, when the Los Alamos National Office of the United States came to Hong Kong for inspection a few days ago, Chen Shiqing even recognized a technician belonging to the Cary company from their team. Chen Shiqing was poached by Li Xuan before returning to Hong Kong. It was the CTO of Cary.

So Chen Shiqing deliberately went up to greet this former colleague very enthusiastically, and asked when the other party left the Cary company to join the Los Alamos National Office like an old friend.

This made the American delegation feel very embarrassed on the spot.

The hidden identity was revealed by Chen Shiqing, and the visiting group in Los Alamos was very embarrassed at that time. But Chen Shiqing then showed them the internal structure of the "Pearl of the Orient" node. After the incident, the person in charge of the inspection team found Chen Shiqing alone. After sincerely apologizing to him, he praised the atmosphere of the Eastern Bloc and directly expressed his willingness to buy.

Since the "Pearl of the Orient" is ready for commercial sales, there is naturally no need for strict secrecy. Moreover, the Eastern Bloc has long applied for patent protection for all the key technologies. Direct competitors such as Cary want to start parallel computing research and development from scratch, and need to bypass a series of patent barriers set by the Eastern Bloc, it is unlikely that they will come up with mature new products in two or three years.

And having this time as a buffer is enough for Dongfang Electronics to gain a firm foothold in the field of supercomputers. The next step in the improvement of the "Pearl of the Orient" is not to blindly seek speed, but to strive to open up the application field of supercomputers.

In the case of the "Pearl of the Orient", its hardware cost is less than $500,000, while the price of the Oriental Group is as high as $4.5 million. Li Xuan had previously invested more than $20 million in R&D for the Pearl of the Orient project, so he needed to sell at least five supercomputers to recoup his investment.

But there aren't many customers who really need more computing power. In recent times, the Eastern Bloc has received dozens of delegations. But the only ones who really showed interest in buying the "Pearl of the Orient" supercomputer were Los Alamos, Boeing, and Roche, a European pharmaceutical giant.

Therefore, the commercial profit prospects of supercomputers are actually far less high than those of other mass electronic products under the Oriental Group, and the "Pearl of the Orient" is more of a fame benefit to the entire Oriental Group!

Just like for the domestic scientific community, it would not be surprising if the top powers such as the United States, Japan, and the Soviet Union developed the world's fastest computer. But now that it's happening in Hong Kong, many of them feel incredible.

Although Hong Kong in the 80s was far richer than the mainland, in the eyes of domestic scientific researchers, Hong Kong was okay in light industries such as clothing and textiles, but never made much achievements in the high-tech field.

The targets that China needs to catch up with in advanced technology are the United States, Japan and other developed Western countries. Therefore, when China sent students abroad after the reform and opening up, the largest number of students went to the United States, followed by Japan, and almost not many students were sent to these two universities in Hong Kong.

Of course, this also has something to do with the fact that CUHK and HKU in Hong Kong are not keen on accepting international students, which now say that they can offer a limited number of degrees each year. But this also reflects from another aspect, Hong Kong's technological level is not recognized by the outside world.

In fact, not only the relevant parties in China, but also many Hong Kong people themselves are a little incredible. The entire research and development process of "Pearl of the Orient" is very low-key, and everyone never thought that happiness would come so suddenly.

With the rapid economic growth of Hong Kong in the last two decades, the pride of Hong Kong people is rapidly increasing. However, there are not many achievements that Hong Kong can really show off to the world. So in another time and space, after Li Lishan won the first Olympic gold medal for Hong Kong, she immediately became a hero and idol of the city.

In the 80s, Hong Kong was, at best, an important emerging economy in Asia. Li Xuan became the richest man in the world, making countless foreigners remember this city in the Far East for the first time. And he also ascended to the altar in one fell swoop, becoming a role model for countless young people in this city to inspire themselves.

Now the exposure of the "Pearl of the Orient" supercomputer has once again made the city boiling! Later, the "Tiantian Daily" even used the sensational tone of reportage to report the reasons why Li Xuan developed the "Pearl of the Orient" supercomputer in the first place.

At the beginning, because the "God of Wealth Lee" was harassed by the US Government, he made up his mind to develop Hong Kong's own supercomputer and prove to the Yankees that Hong Kong people are no worse than them!

In the words of a Hong Kong newspaper, the computer industry is the crown of the entire electronics industry, and supercomputers are the most brilliant jewel in this crown! Now Hong Kong has this shining precious jewel!

Naturally, the Eastern Bloc could not simply announce to the public that the "Pearl of the Orient" supercomputer had broken the record of the Soviet-Union M-13 in computing power and became the fastest supercomputer in the world.

Instead, the company's PR team prepared a complete promotional plan in advance. The "Pearl of the Orient" supercomputer was installed in the Oriental Real Building. One of its most important tasks is to take over the Cary-1 supercomputer purchased from the United States by the Oriental Research Institute to assist in the research and development of integrated circuits.

However, the first real-world application project of the "Pearl of the Orient" was a public welfare project that benefited all Hong Kong citizens, and even hundreds of millions of people in Southeast Asia - predicting the path of typhoons.

Every year during the typhoon season, Southeast Asian and East Asian countries suffer huge economic losses due to the landfall of typhoons. If we can accurately predict the path and intensity of the typhoon, so as to prepare for disasters in advance, we can greatly reduce the losses caused by disasters! (To be continued......