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Chapter 299 GPU Development Successful!

After discussing it in England for a while, Catherine pushed the rest of the work to Ralph, which ultimately required the intervention of the American telecommunications company. The full-text and ad-free novels are all biquge.info on Aishang Novel Network

"What's the use of the British people needing the internet?" Elsa seemed a little puzzled.

"Aren't you from England?" Catherine was a little funny.

"So I don't know what they're going to do with the internet. Britain is not as large as the United States, and communication is very convenient. When my wife and I went to Wales together, it only took me just over an hour. ”

Britain is indeed small relative to the Americans.

"Maybe they're trying to strengthen the ties between the whole of Europe. Presumably, they did not want to leave the USSR with anything to take advantage of. ”

Having said this, Catherine had a strange feeling in her heart. This move by Europe, although it has the feeling of being directed against the Soviet Union, is on the other hand...... It seems that some of them are aimed at the United States.

In fact, the European Union and the euro also appeared in Europe in a sense to counter the United States and the dollar, and not because of the Soviet Union.

"Probably."

This was the end of the matter, and Catherine's work was restored to normal. At this time, Catherine was discussing cloud computers with Olsen.

-- Internet penetration in California has been doing very well, especially in Los Angeles. Similarly, New York has already built a huge intra-city Internet network, and it is entirely possible to build a cloud computing system.

At this time, Olsen was calculating the cost for Catherine: "Based on 10,000 users in each city, the research and development cost of a cloud machine is about 10 million US dollars, and the cost is about 2 million to 5 million US dollars. If we don't count the R&D costs, it will take about 2 years for a cloud system to recover the cost, and then it can continue to operate for two years, and if the R&D costs are also included, we need to invest our cloud system in at least five or six big cities to make money. And after the four-year life expectancy is up, the speed of our computer development will make us have to choose to eliminate the original cloud computer. ”

Compared with the future, computer development today is simply two worlds.

In the 21st century, the highest floating-point speed of the graphics card of the personal computer has reached 8tl, which is on par with what IBM developed in 2000, and this is only a decade old.

This situation would have been unimaginable before the 80s.

-- This is also because the functions of today's computers are very poor, and it is difficult to see any advantages without a qualitative leap.

If you put it in the 21st century, maybe in three years, or even two years, you have to choose to buy a new machine, or choose to upgrade.

Olson continued: "However, we don't need to invest too much in the upgrade, and if we reduce the number of users to expand the performance of the previous machine, we can still support it for a while, which can reduce our cost by about a quarter." ”

The supercomputer requirements of cloud systems require a certain amount of elasticity, which is effective in reducing costs.

"But there's one more problem...... Although our cloud system is expected to carry up to 10,000 people, then the speed of the computer will inevitably suffer. ”

"Well, system optimization is a must-do. However, the possibility of being online at the same time is not high, and we can also let other computers do the calculations together, and if it really doesn't work, we can reduce the number of people a little, about 8,000 people? ”

Olsen nodded, "Okay, we'll re-evaluate this." ”

When Olsen went down, the phone rang suddenly.

Catherine picked up the phone, and the voice from the main station came from the other side: "Miss Edson, Mr. Roberts from the Thunderbolt room is looking for you, do you need to get the phone in?" ”

"Hmm."

Catherine answered.

"Miss Edson! Good news! Oh my gosh, it's so wonderful! ”

Roberts on the other side seemed excited.

"Calm down, Mr. Roberts."

There's something strange about Catherine.

"Oh...... Oh okay, I got it. "There seemed to be some embarrassment on the other side.

"What's wrong?" Catherine asked.

"The GPU you're talking about has already been developed. It's twice as good as the current SFC in floating-point arithmetic! ”

The voice on the other side was very high-pitched, and it seemed that it was really happy, and Catherine was a little impatient: "Okay, I'll go over Mashan." ”

The Thunder Ray yàn room is not in Noah, but is next to the Ramash yàn room. However, the position of both is not too far from Noah, and it will be ten minutes after the first ten minutes.

"Roberts! Already done? ”

As soon as she saw Roberts, Catherine couldn't wait to ask.

At this time, Roberts seemed to be free of the nervousness on the phone, and he smiled, which seemed to be a little mysterious: "Please come with me and show you something." ”

Catherine followed Roberts and then entered the interior of the room.

Roberts led Catherine to a 14-inch monitor and showed her the contents.

"This ...... It's ......"

Catherine was stunned when she saw it - it was a full 3D scene!

"It took us a lot of time to make this stuff." He smiled, "This is a full 3D scene, we can watch it from any angle." ”

The scene is very simple, it looks like a maze with gray and white walls, but it is good to be able to do this.

"It's amazing."

Catherine was also delighted.

Americans have a strange love for 3D, and even in the days of black and white computers, they used lines to build 3D scenes. For Americans, 3D technology is definitely a big killer.

"However, this GPU is only the most basic version of Yàn, and after linking with the CPU, the maximum computing speed is only 1MIPS."

"A million ...... per second" Hearing this, Catherine seemed to think of something: "You mean our CUDA platform is also done?" ”

The other party nodded: "We have always designed the GPU according to the architecture of CUDA. ”

Catherine nodded excitedly.

GPU research is much simpler than CPU, and not only that, but GPU performance is much better than CPU, which is why Catherine seems so happy.

CPU and GPU are two directions, and their development is very different. GPU only needs to consider floating-point arithmetic, so it can enhance performance to the limit, while CPU not only needs to consider the problem of operation, but also consider adding (super) pipeline design, multi-emission (out-of-order transmission) system, instruction simplification, optimization, and design floating-point combinators and whole point combinators respectively. And on the CPU on smartphones, sometimes you have to consider 3G support and so on.

It's like a heavily armed warrior running with an athlete in a thin shirt, the former is certainly inferior to the latter.

So with the GPU, Catherine was so excited -- which meant that the current 16-bit machine would be able to do what some of the 32-bit machines would be able to do in the future.

Hey, could there be anything better than that?

"We tried to use it on the Nimbus game console, our game console can produce 16 bits (65535 colors), the same screen, up to 2000 colors, and the maximum resolution can reach 640x480. However, we have only made a test program. ”

Catherine nodded: "Take your time, don't rush." ”

Being able to reach 16-bit color is enough, and Catherine can be said to be satisfied with it.

If you can have this GPU, the future of 16-bit computers will definitely be even more perfect.

- But Catherine also knew that GPUs were something that could only flourish on 32-bit computers.

Roberts...... Have you ever tried to build a supercomputer with a GPU? ”

Hearing this, Roberts's eyes lit up.

"Oh...... Yes, if such a GPU is used for a supercomputer...... Oh my God, it's a revolution! ”

Yes, Roberts is also aware of the value of zài in this.

It is already possible to build a supercomputer with 100mFL (i.e., 100 million floating-point operations per second) using the current SFC, and if GPU acceleration is used...... A tenfold multiplier is possible!

-- If you put it in the original history, 1 gfl billion times) supercomputer needed to be able to be developed by Seymour in 1983. Clay developed.

"But it's just a real product, and it may take a month or two for the real product to come out."

Roberts seems to have thought of it again.

"Don't worry, the company will fully support you."

Since this was just a real product, Catherine didn't want to disturb the other party to develop an official GPU, so she left early.

When she returned from the Thunderbolt room, Catherine took Seymour. Clay got it.

"Clay, do you think it's feasible if we use GPUs to develop supercomputers?"

Clay was stunned by Catherine's brainless question.

"Theoretically possible. If your GPU theory isn't wrong...... Wait, is the GPU already developed? ”

Catherine smiled and nodded.

"Oh...... Can you make this product? ”

Catherine shook her head: "Not for the time being, now the research and development of this product in the Thunderbolt room is still in the completion stage, and it will take another month or two to complete." ”

"I seem to be a little impatient."

"Don't worry."

Catherine suddenly felt as if she had been a little too excited. Etc. Seymour. After Clay left, Catherine washed her face and calmed herself.

"Oh, I seem to have some trouble sleeping...... I really want to see the finished product soon! ”

Catherine complained to Elsa.

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There is another one, which will be a little later.

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