Although Wang Haihua is a professor, he is not ignorant of human feelings, otherwise he would not have sat in the position of head of the physics department for many years.

Although Ling Shizhe is his student, his identity is extraordinary, and there is no identity comparable to him in Hong Kong at present, even if it is an old British capitalist family in Hong Kong.

How many large international companies in the world have annual sales of more than $5 billion? And it was completed in just two or three years, and it is unique, such a boss is not something that anyone can criticize, if it weren't for the relationship between Wang Haihua and Ling Shizhe's father, this mouth would not have been opened at all. Even if you open your mouth, you must be careful and adaptable, otherwise you will annoy the president of a large international company and it will not be something that a small professor can afford.

Wang Haihua's conversation skills are very clever, during which he has been observing Ling Shizhe's reaction, fortunately Ling Shizhe also listened to his words, although he didn't say much, but Wang Haihua knew that Ling Shizhe listened to his words, and he didn't annoy him, and he was secretly relieved in his heart.

After finishing speaking, Ling Shizhe didn't answer, after listening to Wang Haihua's advice, he kept reflecting on himself in his heart.

Although the IPC etching process is advanced, but he is too complex technology, so that the new process is completely stuck on the project, if they can consider it carefully, they will not make this mistake at all, and now the new process can already be used at this time, all because they are too greedy, want to do everything in one step, and ignore the scientific and technological level of this era, contrary to the objective development law of this science.

This is the same as the mistake made by the Indian Asan in later generations, India's scientific and technological level and industrial base are not even as good as China's, and it always thinks about developing high-tech equipment comparable to Europe and the United States.

The idea is good, and it has to be done step by step, but India is in a hurry for quick success, what is the result? Look at the main battle tank he developed, which imitates the German Leopard II, and has been engaged in it for forty or fifty years, but the result is only an existing tank, which has no use value at all. Once on the battlefield, Pakistan's Hadley tank can kill him in front of him, and the whole cannon fodder tank.

There is also India's LCA "Brilliant" fighter, which is also a wonder, it has been lying in the nest for so many years, and India has too many lessons, which are all caused by ignoring the too backward domestic scientific and technological and industrial base and forcibly launching the horse.

Ling Shizhe's situation is very similar to that of India, although the CMOS industry is built on the basis of developed science and technology in Europe and the United States, he completely looks at the world from the perspective of the cutting-edge industrial science and technology foundation of later generations, and does not carefully look at the limitations of the world's scientific and technological level in this era. Ignoring the objective law of scientific development, forcibly getting on the horse and being sophisticated, the result was stuck, fortunately I came through and found a remedy in time, otherwise I had to get rid of myself.

This situation has happened several times, the driving computer of the year before last, this ICP is because they did not grasp the gap between reality and ideals, is this a mistake that only traversers will make? Ling Shizhe fell into thought for a while.

No, it shouldn't be a traverser to commit it, Ling Shizhe shook his head, he thinks that if he is not a traverser, he will also commit it, think about the Iridium program of Motorola in later generations, Microsoft's Vesta plan, and the F120 variable-cycle engine that GE competes with Pratt & Whitney F119, all because the technology is too advanced to play with itself.

Thinking of this, Ling Shizhe breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that it is not because he is a traverser that the technology is too advanced and cannot be linked to the reality of science and technology, even if he is not a traverser, it will happen!

Suddenly, Ling Shizhe remembered that the knife server project he was developing was also a very advanced thing, could it be that he couldn't do it because of such and such technical limitations?

After thinking about it carefully, he thinks it shouldn't be, the advance of this thing is not in the hard technology, but in the design concept, the foundation of the blade server is built on the basis of the RISC architecture processor, the biggest technical obstacle, he has been solved a few years ago, the rest are small problems, are the integration of various technologies.

To put it bluntly, a blade server is a server in the form of a single board. A board is a complete computer, what is on it? Like all computers, CPUs, memory, north-south bridge chipsets, motherboards, storage, and so on. It's complicated, it's complicated, it's simple, as long as you do it well, the blade server is not a mysterious thing.

Wait, he remembered that something was wrong, it was a hard drive, yes, it was a hard drive.

CPU, memory, graphics operating system is no problem, although limited by the current semiconductor technology, the graphics operating system is a little difficult, but it is not difficult for him, just add a GPU graphics processor to the computer board of the blade server, and then use the graphics compression technology of later generations to solve the problem, a little problem, optimize the algorithm on it, and then not refer to the next generation of learning machine graphics control system is how to do it, it's not the same as hanging a pseudo graphic, Anyway, the operating system is just a personal computer interface, just for people to make it convenient for the computer, and the computer does not rely on various application software for those projects.

As long as this operating system can make it easy for people to operate the computer, the graphics operating system is not a pseudo graphics operating system, there is a hairy relationship, the graphics operating system of the computer learning machine of later generations is not a plug-in on the DOS system, as long as it does not affect the use, it is a graphics operating system. An 8-bit blade server, how powerful do you want it to be?

The key is the hard disk, Ling Shizhe remembered that something was wrong there, it was the hard disk.

A hard disk drive (HDD) is a non-volatile storage device on a computer that uses a hard spinning platter as the foundation.

In 1956, IBM's IBM 350RAMAC was the prototype of the modern hard disk, with a storage capacity of 5MB, equivalent to the volume of two refrigerators.

Nima, the volume of two refrigerators, only 5MB capacity, how can he do his blade server, engage in wool, the price is ridiculously expensive, 300,000 US dollars a piece.

Buy? It can't be installed, a blade server has such a large space, and a hard disk the size of two refrigerators, Ling Shizhe thinks about it, relying on it is a complete tragedy; Don't buy? Without a hard disk, how to do its operating system, how to install application software, how to store data, is it like those mainframes on the market, using paper tape or tape? it, does that blade server still make sense? There is no point at all, and it is still useful.

Thinking of this, Ling Shizhe suddenly stood up from the sofa and kept walking back and forth in the room, sweating profusely.

"Xiao Ling~~~Xiao Ling~~~ Xiao Ling!" Wang Haihua, who was reading the documents, saw Ling Shizhe spinning around in the room like a headless fly, and shouted at the exit to stop him and asked, "What's wrong with you, why do you have to go back and forth like this all at once, see you are sweating profusely." ”

"Hey! Professor Wang, it seems that I have reversed the problem that reality does not match my ideals. Seeing Wang Haihua's doubts, Ling Shizhe immediately told Wang Haihua about the development of the blade laboratory in the North American laboratory, as well as the problem of the hard disk.

After listening to what Ling Shizhe said, Wang Haihua closed his eyes and thought about it, then picked up a piece of paper from his desk, picked up a pen and drew on it.

I don't know what he was drawing, Ling Shizhe didn't disturb his thinking, and stood there thinking about this countermeasure.

Thinking about it, I can't come up with any good way for a while, at this time the computer has not been equipped with a hard disk, even the earliest PC has not been equipped with a hard disk, and the storage is used as a floppy disk. The price of today's hard disk is too expensive, the capacity is particularly low, and the volume is also very large.

Ling Shizhe regrets it very much now, and he keeps scolding himself in his heart, why did he ignore the hard drive in the first place.

When he was still worrying about the hard disk, Wang Haihua had already stopped his pen, looked at the various patterns drawn on the paper, and said: "Xiao Ling, from your structural design of the blade server, the hard disk is indeed an indispensable device, and now the price of the hard disk is so high, and the volume is so large, isn't it okay, he is also a storage device anyway, and he can't be replaced by something else?" ”

"No, without a hard drive, the server is just a useless thing, useless, who will buy it? Looking for something else to replace? No, the board is directly connected to the hard disk, and it doesn't work. Ling Shizhe said negatively.

This method doesn't work, Wang Haihua thought about it again, and said: "The hard disk is too large, and the blade server space is too small to fit, so is it okay to connect externally?" ”

Ling Shizhe suddenly remembered that the hard disks of the blade server are external, and each "blade" is actually a system motherboard, which is an independent computer, but it is a shared disk array and network, in this mode, each motherboard runs its own system, serving the specified different user groups, and is not related to each other, but you can use the system software to integrate these motherboards into a server cluster to do parallel operations.

"It's okay to connect externally, but the current disk capacity is too low, so the price of hard disk alone is very expensive, except for some military departments and super-large enterprises will use it, general enterprises will not use it." "Can you use tape if the capacity is small, and can you change your server structure?"

Wang Haihua said that tape replaced, Ling Shizhe shook his head, change the structure, is it changed to a rack server, then it needs hard disks more, and the hard disks used on the motherboard of a rack server are as many as 4 or 5.

Hard drive, hard drive, yes, how did I forget it, Ling Shizhe slapped his thigh hard. "What, you've figured it out?" "Well, it's a solution," Ling Shizhe replied, "I thought of an alternative, if it works, I have to sum it up, ah, the professor has bothered you for so long, it's time for me to leave." ”

"Okay, it's good to come up with a solution, science is like this, when you encounter a problem, you can't be anxious, the more anxious you are, the more you can't solve it." Wang Haihua understood Ling Shizhe's mood and knew the purpose of his anxious return, looking at his anxious appearance, he couldn't help but persuade.

After Ling Shizhe left the process laboratory, he did not return to the company, he had already thought of a way but was not in a hurry, now he wanted to go home to check some information, and he had to see if this plan worked, if not, he had to stop the blade server project.