It sounds like a big effect, but it seems to be able to be applied to the NB laboratory itself and the observatory.

After listening to the introduction, an older Hong Kong government official couldn't help asking: "Dr. Tong and Professor Chen, as the two of you said before, the 'Aurora' uses American chips, and even the cables are imported, everything is someone else's, you just assembled it, can it be regarded as a major achievement of the NB laboratory in 93?" ”

This question is very acute, and if it is not explained properly, let alone them, ordinary citizens will have the same doubts. "Aurora" is the result of the computer center, this is their stage, and the charter remains silent.

Tong Jiaming smiled and patiently explained, "Mr. Zhang, I think it is necessary for me to clarify a misunderstanding. In the eyes of many people, supercomputers are 'heap chips', and the larger the heap, the faster the computing speed. Even at last year's International Supercomputer Summit, an executive at a supercomputer vendor joked that by connecting 10,000 obsolete 286 computers, the fastest computing speed could be created.

In the case of comparable performance of a single CPU, the more supercomputers are adopted, the faster their computing speed. There is some truth to this, but only in theory.

Because the actual situation is not that one plus one equals two, because the supercomputer in the cluster structure is based on the network for distributed computing, if the distribution is not reasonable, the performance of each CPU will not be fully utilized. For example, it's like the difference between 50 and 5,000 civil servants when you lead them, and if you don't manage them properly, everyone in the latter will be much less productive than the former. ”

Look at the thoughtful looks of everyone. Tong Jiaming continued: "Develop a supercomputer. Its architectural design - i.e., network systems and software systems. How to maximize the performance of the thousands of CPUs installed is a very core technology.

With an order of magnitude more CPUs and more cores, the more complex the system will be, the more difficult it will be to cooperate with each other, and the more bottlenecks will be. In the case of tens of thousands of CPU cores, the 'Aurora' can also reach the level of advanced supercomputers in Europe and the United States. This shows that the core technology of our supercomputer has entered the world's leading ranks, in the architecture technology of supercomputers. It is already in the first echelon with European countries. ”

Jiang Meimei took over the conversation and said in fluent English: "More importantly, software is the soul of supercomputers and all computers. ”

The police commissioner asked curiously, "Dr. Jiang, have you developed the software?" ”

Jiang Meimei nodded, turned around and smiled generously: "To be exact, we have developed several small software specially designed to demonstrate its function. For example, analysis software in the medical field can perform gene sequencing. Fundamentally crack the 'code' of human life, and avoid many congenital diseases from the perspective of genetic repair. It is also possible to select the most suitable ratio among millions of drug ingredients for new drug development.

For example, Mr. McGaulle and Mr. Jiang, who have developed financial analysis software developed by more than 40 teachers and students of the University of Hong Kong and CUHK, do you remember that half a year ago, they conducted a social survey on fiscal and taxation aspects, and even submitted an application to the Financial Secretary and the Inland Revenue Department for access to financial and taxation information? ”

McGaulle and the Commissioner of Taxation glanced at each other, nodded and smiled: "I have an impression, I remember that I called the lawyer of the Financial Department for this reason, and conducted legal consultation on the privacy of taxpayers involved in the information." ”

"They spent almost a month at the tax office, and I have the impression that I have that too."

Jiang Meimei walked to a computer made by NB Electronics, tapped the keyboard a few times, and groups of data were displayed in front of everyone like flowing water.

"I believe that the two of you will be very interested in these data."

She motioned for her assistants to print it and chuckled proudly: "As far as I know, according to Hong Kong law, you should pay taxes on the money you make from property speculation." Every year, hundreds of thousands of property transactions are filed with the tax bureau, and tax officials have no way of grasping who makes money and who doesn't.

We entered the data of Hong Kong's property sales and sales into 'Aurora' last year, and used the software developed by the teachers and students of HKU and CUHK to screen them, and actually selected 15,600 transactions without tax returns. ”

According to the Inland Revenue Ordinance, property speculation is a commercial undertaking and must be taxed on the profits earned from property speculation and subject to 15% profits tax. Companies usually buy and sell properties for commercial purposes, and it is difficult not to admit property speculation, and most of them will take the initiative to file tax returns. Individuals are different, they rarely take the initiative to report property speculation to make money, and the tax bureau usually will not admit it if they don't chase it.

Real estate and stocks are the two pillars of Hong Kong's economy, and the trading volume is too large to be screened one by one.

If, as Jiang Meimei said, the scope of tax evasion can be reduced to one-third at once, then the tax bureau can conduct a manual review and recover a major missing tax source for the Hong Kong government.

McGaulle immediately became interested, took the materials that had just been printed out and said: "Let's give it a try, if there is a quarter of this list, no, as long as one-fifth of it is not actively bonded, then the financial secretary will cooperate with your computer center in this regard." ”

"I've tried."

Jiang Meimei handed him another piece of information, and said with a confident smile: "This is our list of telephone reports last month, random, no deliberate manual selection, the tax bureau must have the same record, you and Mr. Director only need to make a phone call to ask about the follow-up results, I believe you will get a satisfactory reply." ”

The supercomputer helped the tax bureau catch tax evasion, and everyone couldn't help but whisper to each other, and McGaulle didn't want to disappoint them, so he immediately motioned for the tax commissioner to call to confirm.

The receiver amazed everyone, with an accuracy rate of up to 39%! This means that one out of every three suspicious transactions screened by Aurora will be suspected of tax evasion.

Like the Observatory, the Financial Secretary and the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) immediately announced their intention to cooperate with the NB Laboratory Computer Centre on all fronts.

Commissioner Lee realised that he was invited for the reason. Asked with interest, "Dr. Tong, Dr. Jiang." Can you tell me what Aurora can do for the Force? ”

"Of course. It is our pleasure to serve you. ”

At the suggestion of Mr Tong, an assistant researcher demonstrated the image recognition and fingerprint comparison techniques on the spot, which stunned the Senior Inspector in charge of the computer management system of the Hong Kong Police Force and the Crime Support Branch of the Crime and Security Division.

In the next half hour, a computer engineer from NB Aviation compared the management system of the air cargo terminal at Kai Tak Airport with the cargo terminal system of NB Aviation Leipzig International Airport.

Prior to joining NB Airlines, he worked at Kai Tak Airport Air Cargo Terminal for four years and is well versed in Kai Tak Airport's computer management system.

In his simple description, he perfectly demonstrated a more modern, easy-to-use computer system. It can greatly improve the work efficiency of users. Only then did everyone realize that the already advanced and modern management system of Kai Tak Airport was simply an old-fashioned 286 in front of the 'Aurora' and Ansoft systems!

"The 'Aurora' is undoubtedly the greatest technological achievement in Hong Kong this year, Mr. Zhang, congratulations, I really want to open a bottle of champagne to celebrate, and then hold a grand press conference."

"Mr. Zhang, you and your colleagues are always able to surprise us."

……

After seeing the "Aurora" and NB Electric's strong software development capabilities, the charter once again became the focus of everyone.

While escorting Hong Kong officials and experts from Kai Tak Airport downstairs, he said modestly: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Hong Kong government has provided so much funding. If the laboratory does not bring benefits to the six million people of Hong Kong, won't those grants be in vain? The 'Aurora' is powerful. What has just been demonstrated is just a few of its insignificant features. If you have enough money, you can make it faster and have a wider range of applications. ”

Commissioner Li smiled and asked, "Mr. Zhang, are you saying that the 'Aurora' can be upgraded?" ”

"The architecture has been determined, and the room for upgrading is not very large, but the young scientists of the Computer Application Center can develop faster 'Aurora 2', 'Aurora 3' and even 'Aurora 4' on this basis. In fact, we have already reached an agreement with HKUST that when the infrastructure project is completed next year, the 'Aurora' will be donated to the Department of Computer Science of HKUST. ”

Tens of millions of supercomputers will be delivered, and Financial Secretary McGaulle couldn't help but quip: "Mr. Zhang, although 'Aurora' is not government property, you have no right to dispose of it like this!" ”

"Of course I don't have the right, but the council does, and as far as I know, the Hong Kong government representatives voted in favor."

Dr. Tong Jiaming just introduced very clearly, supercomputers also follow Moore's Law, and the speed of replacement is extremely fast, but McGaulle still pretended not to know and shook his head: "Mr. Zhang, you have an absolute majority, and it is useless for them to oppose it." ”

"Yes, we will give money to the Observatory, and we don't have a penny to donate to HKUST, Mr. Zhang, you really lose a lot of money in this business."

The charter glanced back and said sincerely: "HKUST has been established for less than three years, and it has experienced so many turmoils and has been questioned. The more difficult it is, the more support from all sides is needed. We've been borrowing for so long, and we're going to continue to borrow it, so we can't leave nothing behind, right? ”

"Yes, it should be supported."

McGaulle smiled, and then pointed in the direction of the NB laboratory construction site and asked, "Mr. Zhang, don't you think that what happened to HKUST is likely to happen to you as well?" Twenty expert apartments, if calculated according to the market price, each will not be less than 60 million Hong Kong dollars, I have always wondered how you plan to explain to the public. ”

The "Rolls-Royce" University is just a little taller, the scenery is better, and the professors, associate professors and assistant professors spend a little more.

The NB laboratory not only has a high building and the same good scenery, but also spends the same amount of money on experts and scholars, and even builds an invincible seaview villa in the face of the world's condemnation.

Instead of suffering from poverty, the presidents of all universities in Hong Kong do not have this treatment, let alone professors and associate professors, why is the NB laboratory "public and private"? Not only is the land allocated for free, but taxpayers in Hong Kong also bear half of the construction costs.

This is a very real problem, and there are already doubts in society.

It is related to the reputation of the NB laboratory, President Gao has mentioned it to him more than once, and seeing that everyone is looking at him in unison, the charter smiled casually: "Everyone, whether the scientists in the laboratory are qualified to live or not, I believe that there will be a conclusion soon, we will wait and see." ”

"Mr. Zhang, can you make it clear?"

History has changed with its own rework, especially the history of science and technology.

Until the last minute, no one knew whether Dr. Smith would be able to win this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry as in history, and he shook his head and smiled: "I can't say, but I'm confident that I can solve these little troubles." (To be continued......)