0353 The Value of Supercomputers
Looking at Zhou Liang Shuyi's hesitant appearance, Tang Huan smiled slightly.
You must know that Media Asia TV has followed the world's cutting-edge science and technology in hardware construction, relying on its own real money and silver, and it may not be so bold to change other bosses, after all, businessmen always pay attention to a certain input-output ratio.
"KTVU, the TV station in Auckland, wants to produce a few Chinese programs, and the behind-the-scenes personnel on the Xiangjiang side are a little stretched, so I plan to poach a few people from TVB." Zhou Liang Shuyi said tentatively.
"The existing balance between Media Asia and TVB is best not to be hastily broken." After Tang Huan said noncommittally, he instructed the next stop to go to the engineering department to have a look.
The thoughtful Zhou Liang Shuyi quickly followed, adding: "Actually, they are all friends who have worked together in the past, and now they want to make a breakthrough in their careers, so they found me here." ”
"Personal wishes should be respected." Tang Huan bowed slightly.
Zhou Liang Shuyi, who understood Tang Huan's thoughts, smiled and continued to accompany the boss who always likes to give problems to his subordinates to inspect.
Finding that his subordinates arranged their work in an orderly manner, Tang Huan couldn't help but be a little disappointed, because of Xiangjiang's side when he was in trouble, he didn't take a firm position, he wanted to find a very representative mistake to beat, but he didn't seize the opportunity.
However, after walking into the warehouse on a whim, finding that it was not standardized, even messy, and then thinking of the fire that had occurred in the original space-time and space Ria Building, Tang Huan finally fulfilled his wish and performed a scene where thunder, rain and dew were all Jun'en.
In the end, Tang Huan said earnestly: "I have a plan. Through computer technology. Establishment of a digital Chinese cultural archive in Hong Kong. These films in front of you are all rare materials, history is priceless, once it is destroyed because the firefighting work is not in place, can you have a good conscience? ”
After careful review by Zhou Liang Shuyi and other middle and senior executives, Tang Huan waved his hand and ended the inspection with satisfaction.
The car started slowly, and Tang Huan looked out of the car. couldn't help laughing, the big stage of life is full of drama.
was sighing, he noticed that there were two girls arguing on the side of the road, and when he looked closely, he still knew each other, it was the master of DreamWorks, Hua Dan Mixue, and her sister Sydney.
When I met the sisters several times, it seemed that the two of them were bickering, and I have to say that the relationship was quite complicated.
Tang Huan, who has been so busy lately that he feels that his life is a little boring. I was a little nervous, so I ordered to stop. I opened the car door and walked over.
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"I'm so old, you still care about everything, tired or annoying." Sydney's tone was full of impatience.
"Don't think that after filming a few TV series and movies, you will eat through this entertainment industry. You are still young, you don't understand that the people in this are complicated, and if you don't pay attention, girls can easily suffer. Mi Xue persuaded bitterly.
"Here we go again, and my ears are calloused. After entering the industry, no matter which drama I take, I have to ask for your consent. That's it, my sister takes care of my sister. But when I go to a party and have a meal together, do you still restrict me from treating me as a puppet? Sydney retorted unappreciatively.
"Why are you so ignorant, hurry up and go home with me, don't go anywhere." Mi Xue angrily pulled her sister's arm.
"Don't think that we owe you your hard work to earn money to support your family, you have to listen to your arrangements for everything, you can't interfere with my freedom, let me go." Sydney struggled in frustration.
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This 16-year-old girl is so rebellious that it's really worrying.
Tang Huan just muttered to himself, and Sydney, who had broken free from Mi Xue's hand, stumbled towards him.
"Is this a war?" Tang Huan casually pressed Sydney's shoulder to let the other party stand firmly.
"I want you to be nosy......" Seeing that it was Tang Huan, Sydney's momentum weakened, and the tone of her voice also lowered.
Obviously, this rebellious girl was still a little afraid in front of Tang Huan.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Tang, I'm smiling at you, Sydney doesn't want to go home so early, so it's awkward, and we'll be fine when we go back." Mi Xue explained awkwardly.
"Since I met it, then I'll send it to you." Tang Huan said as he pushed Sydney in the direction of the car door, and the other party didn't dare to lose his temper, so he obediently opened the car door and got into the car.
Mi Xue sighed sadly, "I really regret letting Sydney enter the entertainment industry so early, this girl doesn't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, especially after getting the role in Golden Harvest's "Young Master Dragon", her tail is upturned to the sky." ”
"Is that movie Cheng Long is filming?" Tang Huan quipped, "Didn't he give Sydney the role for your sake." ”
"Nonsense, that's because I'm fit to be the heroine." Sydney is like a kitten with its tail stepped on, proving its worth with its teeth and claws.
After Tang Huan recalled the content of "Young Master Long" in the original time and space, he unceremoniously commented: "Jackie Chan's current movies are all men's plays, and you can play the role of a vase, no matter who plays it." ”
Seeing that although Sydney stared at her and didn't dare to refute, her face was full of unconvinced, Tang Huan comforted, "Of course, this actor must also be beautiful enough, you are suitable in this regard." ”
This sentence was even more shocking, and Sydney shrank back in her seat and muttered in a broken voice, "You just look down on people." ”
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After seeing that everything was in order on the Xiangjiang side, Tang Huan flew directly to Singapore to see the results of the research and development of supercomputers.
Because it was specially arranged by Tang Huan, the time when the plane arrived in Singapore was almost just for dinner, and he didn't have to entertain anything, he went home to rest directly.
Lin Fengjiao had already prepared the meal and led a pair of twins to guard the dinner table, while her aunt Tang Yun wore reading glasses and studied the newspaper carefully.
Recently, Tang Huan has been frequently attacked by the media, and the old lady naturally pays special attention to this aspect.
As soon as Tang Huan sat down, his aunt Tang Yun began to chatter, "You go to the mainland this time." It went smoothly. But you're not gold. can make everyone like it, such as the treasure island, there will definitely be people who are dissatisfied. ”
"It doesn't matter." Tang Huan replied nonchalantly, and then picked up his twin sons, "It's okay if my son likes me." ”
As soon as the words fell, in the babbling sound, a chubby little hand slapped him on the face unceremoniously.
"Is this the eldest or the second. How dare you slap me. Tang Huan's face was depressed.
"Well deserved." Lin Fengjiao pursed her lips and smiled, "Who made you unable to tell who is older and who is younger in this pair of brothers." ”
Seeing that Tang Huan, who was dominating outside, was so deflated at home, her aunt Tang Yun was so happy and laughed happily, and she completely forgot her worries just now.
Tang Huan handed over his son to Lin Fengjiao, and at the same time threatened in a low voice, "You have no way to teach your son, see how I punish you at night." ”
Lin Fengjiaoqiao glanced at Tang Huan with a slightly red face, and took advantage of her aunt Tang Yun's lack of attention, raised her foot and kicked this man who made her both love and resent.
"I'm not gold, though. But you can give yourself a value similar to gold. While eating, Tang Huan continued the topic that his aunt Tang Yun was worried about just now. And there will be more and more such means, such as personal workstations, web servers, and supercomputers, which have recently become well-established. ”
Aunt Tang Yun went to college in the United States, and her knowledge is naturally not comparable to that of ordinary old ladies, she frowned and reminded Tang Huan, "Although the supercomputer you built in Singapore has won the trust and support of the prime minister and other high-level officials, I am afraid that the United States should also pay attention to such sensitive products." ”
"Don't worry, I'll put my hands away, the capabilities of this supercomputer, which is at the level of the 1970s, are not too sensitive. Besides, although supercomputers are strategically significant, their application fields are also limited, and only the market in the United States has the ability to digest them, so my focus is naturally there. Tang Huan replied firmly.
"It's good that you know what you know." Aunt Tang Yun nodded, changed her words, and asked about the situation on the mainland, "Have you gone back to your hometown this time to see it?" ”
"It's all over again." Tang Huan didn't say that some places had been changed beyond recognition, and the rain and wind had fallen, but he just picked up some pleasing topics and introduced them.
Aunt Tang Yun was naturally very happy to hear this, and said with longing: "When the babies grow up, I will find an opportunity to take them back to find their roots." ”
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The next day, Tang Huan was at the National University of Singapore and saw the supercomputer waiting for the acceptance ceremony, DBSH-1.
The performance of a computer system depends on many aspects, but people try to keep it as simple as possible when it comes to establishing the criteria.
For example, in personal computers, the most well-known metric is the CPU clock speed - how many MHz, while the supercomputer indicator is Floating-pointOperationsPerSecond, the number of floating-point operations per second, or FLOPS.
After all, supercomputers are not accessible to everyone, and even if it is an astronomical amount in front of the unit of FLOPS, it is a vague concept, and it is not as sensitive and clear as the main frequency of the popular product - personal computers.
However, the CPUs used in personal computers, such as the common mainstream products in the market: MC68000, Intel8086, MC6800, MOS6502, Intel8080, Z80, etc., do not have built-in floating-point arithmetic units, and if you want to calculate the decimal point, you need to rely on software to simulate.
Obviously, it doesn't make sense to talk about the number of floating-point operations per second on today's PCs.
At this stage, CPU manufacturers support floating-point arithmetic in the form of coprocessors. For example, Intel has launched a matching Intel8087 math coprocessor for its own Intel8086.
Originally, Intel started from Intel80486 to integrate floating-point arithmetic functions inside the CPU.
But compared to supercomputers of the same period, its floating-point performance is not enough to attract people's attention.
It wasn't until the 21st century, when the CPU clock used in PCs entered the G era and high-end technologies such as RISC were introduced, that this indicator began to be displayed with shame.
For example, the IntelPentium4HT with a main frequency of 3.6GHz has reached 7GFLOPS, that is, the number of floating point operations per second is 7 billion.
In 2013, the performance of smartphone processors also crossed the threshold of GFLOPS.
During this period, the personal computer was becoming more and more mature in all aspects, and its performance was comparable to that of the supercomputer of 15 years ago.
The history of China's supercomputer should be counted from the Yinhe 1 in 1983, with a computing speed of 100 million times per second, that is, 100 MFLOPS.
After that, it stalled until 1994, when Galaxy 2 was launched, with a speed of one billion operations per second, which is just over GFLOPS.
This rate of development is far behind the world level of the same period, the Soviet Union reached 2.4 GFLOPS in 1984, and the United States reached 1.338 TFLOPS or 1338 GFLOPS in 1997.
In 1981, that is, this year, the world's most advanced supercomputer reached 400MFLOPS of computing power.
The DBS-1 developed by Tang Huan for Singapore has a computing power of 280MFLOPS, slightly exceeding the 250MFLOPS level of the 1976 Cray-1 in the United States.
The CPU of Cray-1 runs at 80MHz, while DBS-1 uses 16 Yipeng/Holder-S and supporting co-processors.
Excluding the on-board water-cooling system, its overall power consumption is close to 200 kilowatts.
Supercomputers are a symbol of a country's national strength, which not only refers to the strength of technology research and development, but also includes operating costs.
Originally, China's Tianhe-2 became the world's fastest supercomputer, and its annual electricity cost was 100 million yuan when it was not running at full speed. If it runs at full speed, it is as high as 150 million yuan.
Therefore, although supercomputers look glittering and admirable, from research and development to use, or from purchase to use, a considerable amount of real money must be prepared for each link.
For DBS One, Singapore paid Tang Huan US$10 million, plus US$1 million for storage equipment.
In addition to delivering DBS One, Tang Huan also helped Singapore bring a group of technical research and development personnel.
As Fangyuan's first supercomputer, DBS-1's primary purpose was to prove that a supercomputer could be built according to Tang Huan's plan.
While Singapore is sort of a guinea pig, it is now reaping the rewards it wants.
Tang Huan didn't want to be the first bird, so he left room to spare, and after DBS 1 was handed over to Singapore, they would adjust and optimize it themselves to improve the performance to more than 300MFLOPS. (To be continued......)