"The Birth of the Most Powerful Super Server in History - Over 100 Billion Operations per Second" - The New York Times

"The First 100 Billion Supercomputer in History Was Born at Ambrera" – The Washington Post

"100 Billion Supercomputers...... Ambrera Holds Computer Technology Bull's Ears - American Computer News

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The day after the blade server was released, it made headlines on the front pages of major media around the world, and the birth of a 100 billion supercomputer shocked the world. ∑ top novel,

As soon as the news broke, more news outlets sent their strongest teams of reporters to Raccoon Town, Canada.

Not only reporters came, but many computer enthusiasts from all over the world also came, wanting to see with their own eyes what a supercomputer with hundreds of billions of times was like, and the town was overcrowded for a while.

Ling Shizhe is very busy now, it can be said that he is happy and painful, there are a lot of European and American dignitaries in the town, these are big people or big people in the future, they can't be easily offended, Ling Shizhe has to take time to meet them.

There are also a lot of people from the military, including American, Canadian, and NATO officers, all of whom are at the level of generals, and Ling Shizhe also has to meet them one by one.

There were also many media who wanted to interview Ling Shizhe, but except for some newspapers with great influence in the world, such as "Time Magazine" and "World Computer News", the rest were politely refused.

The media, which couldn't interview Ling Shizhe, turned to interview the executives and employees of Ambrera.

In the course of the interview, some reporters gradually discovered that this newborn raccoon town is actually a pretty good place.

It is quiet and peaceful, the scenery is beautiful, and more people have come to this town under the reports of reporters, and Raccoon Town is famous for its supercomputer, becoming a world-famous tourist town, and tourism income has become an important source of income for the town.

What people are most interested in is the story of how Ling Shizhe bought the town.

In short, these days, when people turn on the TV and watch the news, it's all about Ambrera.

The noisy news from the West also quickly spread to Hong Kong, and all walks of life in Hong Kong were boiling for a while.

When the London "Times" reported that Ling Shizhe had four wives, the world was in a complete uproar, and many media began to turn their guns and scold Ling Shizhe for being a big/pervert/wolf, and for a while, Ling Shizhe was discredited.

In 73, Ling Shizhe became the hottest news person of the year in the world.

Ling Shizhe wanted to keep a low profile, but instead of thinking about it, he became the focus of the world, which made him irritable, but the company's public relations department told him that instead of being so irritable, it is better to accept the reality, now the whole world knows that you have four wives, this public opinion is quite unfavorable to you and the company, didn't you accept an interview with Time Magazine? Go and be interviewed by him, and our public relations department will find a way to steer public opinion on the track we want.

Ling Shizhe smiled bitterly after hearing this, the press conference that day was full of twists and turns, everyone present didn't believe it, and finally waited for Andy Grove to finish his speech, and everyone couldn't wait to visit the demo hall.

Due to the large number of people, Ambrera could only let people in batches.

As soon as the visitors entered the central computer room used for demonstrations, they were amazed by the scenery in front of them.

This computer room is quite beautiful, with a white high-grade tile floor, and an almost endless black standard cabinet in this central computer room, like an indicator light blinking by the stars in the sky, and the staff in white coats walk between the cabinets from time to time to check the operation of the equipment.

Blade servers are not only advanced in performance, but also in terms of industrial design.

As a person in the future, he knows that no matter how good a product is, it must have a good appearance in order to sell at a good price!

The minimalist postmodern style design from the 21st century satisfies the whole fantasy of the words sci-fi and futuristic in front of them.

Seeing this, the people who came to visit had a feeling that maybe it was true, that Ambrera was not lying, that it was really possible that they had built a supercomputer hundreds of billions of times.

Among the visitors were well-known scholars and professors in the field of computing, such as von Imann and others.

With the permission of Ambrera, they began testing the supercomputer.

This is a plan that Ling Shizhe has arranged a long time ago, they know that once the blade server comes out, it will inevitably attract the suspicion of the world, let those computer experts test it, and with their own proof, the world will believe that it is true.

In the end, it goes without saying, facts speak louder than words, and the world is shocked.

What happened next was completely beyond Ling Shizhe's expectations, although he already knew that it would cause a storm and a revolution, but no one expected that people would be so fanatical about the supercomputer of blade servers.

Under the in-depth excavation of reporters, Ling Shizhe, as the boss of Ambrera's company, was the first to bear the brunt, and everything he had was dug up by the media, like a naked/naked/naked girl, naked and exposed in front of the world, which made Ling Shizhe feel very unhappy.

If it's Jobs or Oracle's Allison, I guess they would love that.

"It's hard to imagine that you are so young to build such a big business empire, a business empire with annual production and sales of up to tens of billions of dollars, I have a piece of information here, your company's products include high-end ceramics, computer cameras, scientific function calculators, CPUs, gel batteries, alkaline batteries, ceramic semiconductor components, garbage recycling, biogas power generation, wastewater treatment, seawater desalination and so on. You were born in a wealthy family, and you chose to give up inheriting the family business and start your own business, in just a few years, but you have achieved so much, can you tell us why you gave up the inheritance of the family in the first place? A veteran reporter from Time magazine asked.

Ling Shizhe's four wives were exposed, which was quite unfavorable to him, for this interview, Ambrera Company has made a lot of preparations, and the relationship between all parties has also been heavily invested, "Time Magazine" and the reporter in front of him have not received any benefits from Ling Shizhe, so in this interview, he also served as a negative image for Ling Shizhe.

This is a good bridge that has been arranged a long time ago, and Ling Shizhe also talked eloquently, starting from why he gave up the inheritance of the family, to starting his business, etc., which he told one by one, especially the part where he wrestled with Kodak, which broke a lot of fierce news.

His personal love history also said a lot, "At that time in Hong Kong, there was no modern marriage law, and the Hong Kong law at that time, as long as the woman did not object, people were allowed to take multiple wives, so I had four wives." ”

"Can you tell us how you came up with the idea to design a supercomputer?"

"At that time, our company developed a new CPU, RPM, a microprocessor with no internal interlocking streamlined stage, this processor is more than 100,000 operations per second, it is a very good processor, and we are very optimistic about its market. But reality gave us a blow in the face, the computers designed by the computer company at that time were general-purpose computers, and it was a reduced instruction set computer, and everyone didn't know what to do with it, so we didn't sell a single CPU, so the company decided to design our own computer, a computer specifically for RISC processors, and this gave birth to the VIX10 blade server. ”

"Why do you want to call a computer a server?"

Because it is no longer possible to describe him with computers, there will be much more work to be done in commercial computers in the future than before. The first electronic computer, which was intended for the U.S. military, was designed to calculate the trajectory of artillery shells for the military. It's a behemoth of 18,800 tubes, weighing 30 tons, and filling a room of 1,500 feet! And what can it do?

5000 additions, or 300 multiplications. Every time it is turned on, 18,800 light bulbs come on, and the lights throughout Philadelphia/City/West/Borough dim. Every 15 minutes, engineers find a damaged vacuum tube and replace it with a new one.

Then in 1954, IBM developed a giant machine, the IBM-NOCR, for the naval base in Virginia! And just two years later, they developed the MITTX-0 for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and since when did the computer for the first time turn from being only used by the government to private enterprises, so that the computer, the greatest invention of mankind, began to work for the scientific and technological progress of mankind by designing various high-performance killing weapons for mankind.

However, the mainframe at this time was still too expensive, and the performance was not very ideal, Ambrera was a large company, and there was a great need for a low-cost computer platform, but we were confused when designing computers, what kind of computers do people need?

After many discussions, we came to a conclusion: be the computer that users need most, and always be the computer that users need most, and don't play with those flashy tricks! We serve users and serve the market. So there was the idea of a server.

Traditional vertical servers are large and take up space, and when enterprises use multiple servers, the host storage space is even more considerable. Blade servers, on the other hand, are rack-mounted hosts that mimic the card-based design of network and telecom equipment. It is more suitable for commercial and economic use, and it is very space-saving compared to traditional servers......"

"It's a very clever design, and at the product launch you said you were going to announce the technology of this computer, is it true?"

Ling Shizhe replied: "That's right, it's true, our company has been focusing on the CPU business, it was because the CPU couldn't be sold that we went to develop the server, and now it has been successfully developed, of course we want to announce the technology to the outside world; In addition, as I said earlier, we named the supercomputer a server because it is not just a little bit of a thing, but should serve more human beings, such as letting it make weather forecasts or something, you must know that the server is quite fast, and the information processed per second is very large, and it is good to use it to calculate the weather.

And we also very much hope that third-party software vendors can actively join, so that the blade server can have more applications. ”

This is the end of the interview, and then Ling Shizhe personally led the reporter around the company and took a lot of photos.

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When Time magazine was published, it had to wait until the next week, during which time Ling Shizhe coped with several media interviews.

When all the reporters were gone, and before he could catch his breath, the secretary came in to inform him that the president of IBM, Thomas Watson, had arrived.