That's right, compound lens technology.

This technology can be regarded as opening up a new field for the processing and manufacturing of complex optical lens groups, that is, various complex lenses and other optical lenses can be directly engraved or printed by this technology in a special optical glass material. This manufacturing technology not only reduces the difficulty and cost of processing these lens groups, but also reduces the volume of these lens groups and improves the related performance.

This composite lens processing technology can be used not only for the processing and manufacturing of core lens groups related to lithography machines, but also for the manufacture of photonic chips.

It's just that it is relatively difficult to manufacture photonic chips at present, so Wu Hao and the others first applied this technology to the core of the photonic computer, the photonic computing module.

Photonic chips and photonic computers are actually the same in terms of structure and purpose to some extent, and they are used to process data information. It's just that the photonic chip is more integrated and exquisite, which is equivalent to integrating a photonic computer into a small chip. This also enables a small photonic chip to achieve the computing performance of a photonic computer.

Wu Hao's superphoton computer is actually similar to the structure of a supercomputer, which is composed of a photonic computing module. Each computing module can be thought of as a separate photonic computer.

Each photonic module is composed of a cuboid module of about 20cm x 30cm x 15cm. The whole photonic operation module is divided into two parts, which are the optical operation module and the integrated circuit module. The optical module is made of white translucent material, so the photonic module will light up when it is up and running.

Each photonic computing module can be thought of as a photonic computer, and then the numerous photonic computing modules form a group of 'computing blades', or a photonic computing cube to be precise. Countless photonic computing cubes, connected by optical fibers, eventually form a complex array of photonic computer clusters, their superphotonic computers.

Everyone is looking forward to this superphotonic computer. Almost everybody knew it was going to be a great initiative.

So after briefly listening to some relevant introductions, everyone couldn't wait to take the elevator to the fifteenth floor.

When you get out of the elevator, you will be surrounded by the elevator in front of you, and the corridor is relatively wide in the shape of a 'back'.

It was about two or three meters wide, and then there was a passage at each of the four corners of the corridor that extended vertically. These four extended aisles divide the remaining space into four rectangular areas. Each rectangular area is divided into smaller modules. Each module is more like a square column, and each of these columns is full of light, which is very sci-fi.

Everyone was also attracted by these glowing pillars, and they couldn't help but be curious.

Yang Fan, who has not always had a strong sense of existence, finally stood up, coughed twice, and introduced it to everyone: "This is the superphotonic computer we developed, and the pillars that you see in front of you are the main body of our superphotonic computer." There are a total of 108 columns, and each column contains a total of 4,000 photonic computing modules, which adds up to 432,000 photonic computing modules.

The 432,000 photonic computing modules can provide this superphotonic computer with a peak computing speed of 607,588 TFlop/s, or 6,075.88 billion operations per second. Although it is not as good as the 11 billion supercomputer (2024) of the United States, which is currently ranked first, it is already at the forefront of the supercomputer field.

More importantly, we have solved the problem of high energy consumption and easy heat generation of supercomputers, and the power consumption of our superphotonic computer at full load is only one-tenth of that of other similar supercomputers.

Its overall volume is much smaller than that of other supercomputers. If we can solve the problem of manufacturing photonic chips, then their energy consumption and size will be further reduced, and the computing speed will increase dramatically, surpassing the fastest supercomputers available today.

Therefore, at the beginning of the design of our superphotonic computer, the subsequent upgrade and optimization were taken into account, so the modular design was adopted. This can not only facilitate future maintenance and repair, but also replace the new generation of photonic computing modules, so as to make the computing speed of this superphotonic computer to a higher level. ”

Bang Bang Bang ...... Everyone couldn't help but applaud, and everyone was happy and proud from the bottom of their hearts for Yang Fan, their supercomputing R&D project team and the company to be able to develop such a world-leading cutting-edge technology product, super photonic computer.

With applause, Yang Fan said to Wu Hao: "Boss, now this superphoton computer doesn't have a name, you can give it a name." ”

"That's it, Mr. Wu, you can give it a name." The others present responded.

Even Zhang Jun smiled at Wu Hao and persuaded him: "Since everyone is looking forward to it like this, you can give it a name, it should be a bright spot, atmospheric, the best, and it can also represent our national culture." ”

Wu Hao glanced at Zhang Jun a little helplessly when he heard this, he was supported by so many people, and he couldn't shirk it, so he looked at these glowing pillars and thought about it.

Bright spots, atmospheric points, but also can represent the cultural characteristics of our country.

To be honest, Wu Hao didn't have a clue for a while, but so many people were looking forward to it, and he couldn't let everyone down. After racking his brains, a word finally appeared in front of him.

So he smiled at everyone and said, "Since this is our first superphotonic computer and the world's first superphotonic computer, I think it will be called 'Dao'."

"Dao?" Everyone wondered.

"Yes, that's right, it's the 'Tao'!" Wu Hao nodded with a smile and said.

Seeing Wu Hao's confirmation, everyone couldn't help but whisper, and Zhang Jun couldn't help but ask at him: "Haozi, does this name have any meaning?" ”

Seeing Zhang Jun ask, everyone looked at him and listened to his explanation. Seeing this, Wu Hao looked at everyone and explained with a smile: "Dao, this word is very representative of our country's traditional culture, and from a certain point of view, it is a classic representative of our traditional culture.

As for our superphotonic computer, we developed it completely independently. Then we should choose a name with our own characteristics, so I came up with the word 'Tao'. I think that even if this name is placed internationally, it should be more representative of the cultural characteristics of our entire country and nation.