Chapter 417: The Dark Tide Surging (4)

Chapter 417: The Dark Tide Surging (4)

Not long after hanging up the phone, Zhang Yang received a call from the finance department of Star Group, and after confirming with Zhang Yang, he told Zhang Yang to place an order, and they would pay each other when the order was taken to the company's finance department. After answering the phone, Zhang Yang thought about it, directly picked up the phone and checked IBM's branch in the city, and made a direct phone call.

When I heard that Zhang Yang was the technical director of the Star Group and wanted to buy a large number of servers, the person in charge of the other party was very enthusiastic. Needless to say, the popularity of the Star Group is now known to the whole world that the Star Group is rich.

Although it cannot be said that it got Apple's shares out of thin air, it is basically no different from getting it out of thin air, at least the Star Group did not pay any financial price, 45 percent of the shares, according to the current market value of about 83 US dollars per share of Apple, the Star Group only needs to sell even one percent of the shares is a batch of terrifying funds.

"That's the case, I want to buy your company's ER series server, I don't know how much discount I can get?" Zhang Yang thought about it, and in his memory, IBM's ER was more suitable for the current Star Group. ER is not a blade server group, and it is not the same as a regular tower server.

Strictly speaking,ER is more like a supercomputer component,According to IBM's latest ER server,In its small volume,It can support up to 128U array,Hard disk and memory are not too much,But in the performance composition of U array,ER series of servers are quite good。

This kind of server composition is also more suitable for the use of Star Group, especially if the infected insect wants to call the data of Star Group, a huge U performance is a must. Ordinary blade server groups are more suitable for use as client servers for software, such as game clients, etc., because such servers do not have high requirements for computing performance, and have high requirements for the exchange and storage of network data, so the use of blade servers is undoubtedly the most suitable.

But if you want to run a part of the infective system, then such a server is not good, the most direct impact on the infective system is the computing performance of you, the huge U array is the key to ensure the infective system, no way, the supercomputer system with logical analysis ability is a big eater of performance!

"In this way, Mr. Zhang, I don't know if Director Zhang has time, I will invite Director Zhang to have a meal, and then provide Director Zhang with a quotation for the server by the way." The person who answered the phone was the sales manager of IBM China, and when he saw Zhang Yang asking about the most expensive server, the manager's eyes lit up and he immediately spoke.

"You don't need to eat, I'm still in a hurry here, so let's do it, I'll give you a QQ number, you can send me the server's quotation, and then I'll give you a detailed data, what do you think?" Zhang Yang thought for a while and said.

"Okay, no problem." The manager didn't hesitate, and when he saw what Zhang Yang said, he immediately agreed very happily. Throw his original QQ number to him,Soon the other party passed over IBM's latest server quotation,Zhang Yang checked the server of the ER series,Sure enough, there is the server in Zhang Yang's impression,It's just that the price makes people feel a little painful。

Each set of servers is configured according to the standard, that is, 64 U, and the price is about 100,000 US dollars. If it is a 128 U configuration, its price will probably reach $150,000 a group. After thinking about it, Zhang Yang entered the configuration data of this server into the infected insect and asked the infected insect to calculate it. Based on the calculation of even translations for 5 million people at the same time, without affecting other functions, about 300 sets of servers are required.

Three hundred groups, that is, a U array composed of 38,400 U, thinking about this number, Zhang Yang is a little speechless, if it is calculated according to the blade server, this is more than 30,000 groups of blade servers. 45 million US dollars, this figure would definitely not be affordable if it was the previous Star Group, but for the current Star Group, this price can only be said to be drizzle.

After calculating, Zhang Yang directly sent the data in his hand to the department manager of IBM: "I need 300 sets of the latest servers, 128 U configurations, 40 million US dollars." Seeing the figures sent by Zhang Yang, the manager's eyes immediately lit up, but Zhang Yang's bargaining was really ruthless, and he directly cut the price of five million US dollars.

But this price is still very profitable for IBM, but seeing the server Zhang Yang chose, the manager thought for a while and said, "Director Zhang, does your company want to build a computing center?" If that's the case, I think your company is more suitable to buy this product from our company. After saying that, the manager directly sent a separate list to Zhang Yang.

Seeing this latest list, Zhang Yang's first glance was its price, looking at the price of up to 500 million US dollars, Zhang Yang almost vomited out a mouthful of blood, I damn it, this guy doesn't have to sell so hard, but Zhang Yang still took a look at the details behind, this look, Zhang Yang couldn't take his eyes off it.

The most exciting thing to engage in technology is that it is more advanced technology, and the second is the luxurious hardware facilities equipped with this technology. Zhang Yang is naturally no exception, to be honest, seeing the order from the manager of this department, Zhang Yang is very moved. mlbgd, this guy is a little clever, and he caught his most critical place at once.

nnd, Zhang Yang is a little depressed, this guy is not strictly speaking a server, but a supercomputer! In other words, IBM engineers will help you design and install a supercomputer according to your company's requirements! The $200 million supercomputer computing core sent to Zhang Yang's hands is composed of a total of 65,536 U, and its computing speed can reach 900 trillion operations per second, and it is equipped with a high-definition image processing system of 60 trillion times.

Sister's! Zhang Yang is a little entangled, to be honest, the price is a little high, although this supercomputer looks bullish, but Zhang Yang clearly remembers, if memory serves, IBM will successfully research a new supercomputer in 07 years, about 12 trillion operations per second, the configuration is much higher than the order given to Zhang Yang, but its price seems to be only more than 100 million US dollars in memory.

"The price is a bit high!" Zhang Yang thought about it and replied to the manager, IBM may have at least a few hundred percent profit at this price, although IBM's own domestic sales and external prices are definitely different, but this price is no longer an ordinary black.

Seeing the recovery of Zhang Yang, the sales manager almost had an excited convulsion, as a professional salesperson, of course he understands that when the customer appears such a word, it only proves one message, that is, the other party intends to buy, but is just not satisfied with the price! What people who do sales are most afraid of is that the other party simply refuses without leaving any room, as long as the other party's tone has a trace of hesitation, they have more than 50% chance.

"Mr. Zhang can give me a price in mind, if the price is right, of course we want a discount for a big customer like Mr. Zhang." The sales manager thought about it for a long time, and finally simply threw the topic to the other party. Zhang Yang did not refuse such a supercomputer, but Zhang Yang had never been in contact with IBM's business in his previous life, and it was impossible to contact him, and he did not know that IBM would directly customize supercomputers for each other.

Although it seems that its hardware and so on have increased, in fact, its volume may not have increased much, because a lot of the hardware of this specially customized supercomputer can naturally optimize a lot of volume compared to a single server group, such as a U array, 65,000 U seems to be much, but according to the calculation of a cabinet more than two meters high, its floor area is not much.

"Two hundred and fifty million." Zhang Yang thought about it and cut it in half, IBM also made money at this price, after all, the current supercomputer cannot be compared with a few years later, although the impact of Moore's law on supercomputers is not as great as that of ordinary computers, but the price decline is certain.

In terms of performance, a quadrillion supercomputer may currently need more than 60,000 U to achieve, but in more than two years, it may be possible to achieve such a computing speed of 10,000 U, or even less than 10,000.

Seeing the price sent by Zhang Yang, this sales manager almost vomited blood, even if he bargained, he didn't cut it like this, right? Just cut it in half? The server array composed of ordinary servers is not comparable with supercomputers, and it is impossible for you to achieve such a high computing efficiency with 100,000 U in an ordinary server group, because it has a delay problem of integrated data transmission.

While waiting for the manager's reply, Zhang Yang provided the performance data to the infected. Soon the infected insect replied to Zhang Yang, if this supercomputer is really bought, it will be enough to make the infected insect system play 50% of the performance.

"Mr. Zhang, this price is too low, the last customer in China did not have this price, and he paid about 400 million US dollars." The manager replied to Zhang Yang, and the manager's words made Zhang Yang stunned.