Seeing the shocked expressions on the students' faces, Cai Tianming couldn't help but think of the scene when he came to Taoda to take up his post and came to the interior of the Information Building with Liu Meng for the first time. Even if he once served as the dean of the Electric Power Institute of a second-class university in Jiangcheng and saw many high-end computer buildings, wasn't he dazzled by the various configurations inside the information building at that time?

But the most shocking thing about the building isn't the ultra-modern décor and the student computers.

"Students, our information building has nine floors, do you know why I brought my classmates to the fifth floor on the first day of the official opening of the Academy?" Standing in front of the teachers and students, Cai Tianming asked.

When the students came back to their senses, they all looked puzzled.

Liu Fang stood in the crowd, his heart moved, and replied, "Perhaps, there is something special about this fifth floor." ”

Seeing that someone reacted so quickly and guessed the approximate reason, Cai Tianming couldn't help but be quite surprised. He glanced at Liu Fang deeply, and after noting down Liu Fang's appearance, he said aloud: "What this classmate said just now is right, the fifth floor of the Information Building is indeed different from other floors, because there is a supercomputer installed here, which is what we often call the superbrain - Taoyuan No. 1!" ”

"Although the computing speed of our school's 'Taoyuan-1' is only one-thirtieth of that of China's latest supercomputer, Tianhe-3, its footprint is quite small, about the same as ten ordinary desktop computers. In addition, China's Tianhe-3 computer has ranked first in the world's supercomputer computing speed for five consecutive years, and even if the computing speed of Taoyuan-1 is only one-thirtieth of it, it is enough to make Taoyuan Electric Power Institute proud of the vast majority of domestic universities! ”

Hearing Cai Tianming's words, the students were really stunned.

Since they have chosen to major in computer science, students naturally know more about this information than the average person, including information about supercomputers. Since the first supercomputing appeared in the 80s of the last century, countries around the world have begun to study supercomputing. In the new century, supercomputers will be replaced even faster.

Every year, the World Supercomputer Organization publishes a list of the world's top 500 supercomputers in terms of computing speed, and the Tianhe-3 of Huaguo currently occupies the top spot for five consecutive years. The Tianhe series of supercomputers were all developed by the National Defense University of China, among which Tianhe-1, Tianhe-2, and Tianhe-3 all topped the list, and Tianhe-3 has occupied the top spot for the longest time.

Even if the speed of Taoyuan-1 supercomputer is only one-thirtieth that of Tianhe-3, it may be ranked among the top 50 supercomputers in China. At present, there are many supercomputers in China, but there are only a handful of supercomputing universities that can be ranked among the top 50 in the country. Taoyuan University Electric Power Institute owns Taoyuan No. 1, and the benefits for the future development of Taoyuan Electric Power Institute are simply not too great!

Finally recovering from their stupor, the students couldn't help but talk excitedly.

"We have a supercomputer in our school! I've heard that this thing is really high-end. Those top universities don't have all of them! ”

"I remember that the calculation speed of Tianhe-3 is 300 quadrillion floating point operations, so isn't Taoyuan-1 10 quadrillion operations?!"

"The dean said that Taoyuan No. 1 occupies an area that is only equivalent to ten ordinary computers, which is just the real awesome. You know, supercomputing is very good, and the average organization will not easily enable supercomputers if they have them. Taoyuan No. 1 occupies such a small area, and the power consumption should not be much, which means that the school does not treat it as a decoration! ”

"However, supercomputers are generally used for high-end scientific research, and it seems that there is no place for supercomputing at Taoyuan University at present."

"You don't care if you need it now. Later, when I tell people from other schools that our university has a supercomputer, or that we have seen a supercomputer, then there will be light on my face. If you really do experiments or research with supercomputers, it will be a great resume! ”

"But I've heard about it. Supercomputers have not been fashionable in the past decade, and Tianhe-3 has won five consecutive championships because countries have reduced their investment in supercomputer research and changed their research to the field of cloud computing. ”

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After the discussion of the students stopped for a while. Cai Tianming, the dean of the Electric Power Institute, glanced at the students and said aloud again: "I just heard some students talking about cloud computing. It's a fallacy to not pay attention to supercomputers anymore! ”

"Why is the research on supercomputing stagnant in various countries, and why is it going to cloud computing instead? That's because research in supercomputing has hit a bottleneck! The so-called cloud computing is just a response to the fact that supercomputing cannot be applied on a large scale! ”

"To give a very simple example, 20 years ago, there were few personal computers, and there were a lot of Internet cafes; Nowadays, almost every family has a computer, everyone has a mobile phone to access the Internet at any time, and there are so many Internet cafes? ”

Hearing Cai Tianming's words, the students who previously said that with cloud computing supercomputing were outdated, they couldn't help but blush - you really can't understand half of the knowledge, otherwise it will be easy to look foreign.

Cai Tianming continued: "Of course, I don't say that cloud computing is bad. On the contrary, for a long time to come, the computer network world will be a parallel supercomputer and cloud computing, and both are equally important. Today, I take you to the fifth floor of this information building, and I sincerely hope that in the future, there will be talents among you who can contribute to these two aspects! ”

The students were extremely excited and applauded involuntarily, and Liu Fang was also enthusiastic in the crowd.

Thinking that he chose Taoyuan School at the beginning, in addition to being grateful for Liu Meng's education, he also wanted to continue to learn computer knowledge from Liu Meng, but he did not have much expectations for the Electric Power Institute of Taoyuan University. Who would have thought that now I know that the Electric Academy not only has a good learning place like the Information Building, but also a supercomputer!

What a bonus!

In the Social Castle, the new students of the School of Commerce walked in with great anticipation with their respective counselors, lecturers, professors, and deans of the School of Commerce.

"I know that many of my classmates are curious about the Social Castle, which was not open to the public before. Today is the first day of classes at the School of Business of Taoyuan University, so I simply brought my classmates here to have a look and have a good experience. Ji Guanzhong, the dean of the School of Commerce, turned around and said to the students with a smile.

After speaking, Ji Guanzhong didn't say much, and looked around like the students, as if he was coming to the social castle for the first time.

As the dean of the Chamber of Commerce, Ji Guanzhong is certainly not the first time to come to the Social Castle. In fact, it was a social castle that he agreed to Liu Meng, resigned from the position of deputy dean of the School of Commerce of Shuimu University, and came to Taoyuan to take office. Because through the social castle, he can realize his own unique business school student training concept in this group of students in front of him!

[The first update of the guarantee arrives.] (To be continued.) )