Chapter 178: The Red Queen (Debt Repayment)
Gu Cheng put his legs on the desk, leaned against the boss's chair with both hands on the back of his head, and looked calm: "It's not cheap to arrange a new home for you......"
Xiaoqing didn't want to speak and raised her middle finger: "Convex (βΌγβΌ#)?"
Gu Cheng glanced at the computer screen on the office desktop, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when he saw the emoji presented on the display screen, and immediately pretended to be angry and said, "Huh~~, the quality is so poor?" Where did you learn badly? β
Xiaoqing: "I don't care, I want a new home, master, you can't be stingy with Xiaoqing... (?? Λ?Λ??) β¦γ
Gu Cheng couldn't laugh or cry, after a big upgrade, Xiaoqing's emotional logic is getting richer and richer, if he was chatting about WeChat or something on the other side of the computer, he would never have imagined that it was an artificial intelligence digital life chatting.
"Okay, okay, the riverside villa I live in is almost 20 billion, and I will give your 'home' budget of 5 billion, okay?" Gu Cheng said with a smile.
Xiaoqing: "Really? (*?Ο?)?γ
Gu Cheng put his legs down, moved his wheelchair closer, and pulled out the keyboard, and Xiaoqing immediately turned off the screen that was occupied, Gu Cheng tapped on the keyboard, retrieved a piece of information, and immediately stared at the screen with his arms crossed: "We have arranged it for you clearly, and we will give you the best supercomputing home in the world, brand new, how about it?" β
Xiaoqing: "Shredded Coconut!! Long live the master? (οΌΎοΌΏοΌ?γ
Gu Cheng: "Look at you." β
The Hive Headquarters is composed of three relatively independent but integrated large-scale cluster buildings, the main of which are the office center, the data computing center and the technical reserve center.
Among them, the data computing center is going to add a new set of supercomputers, this level of hardware infrastructure is to be honest, even technology companies do not have it, generally powerful supercomputers are national supercomputing centers or key laboratories, and private companies can only be raised by real giant enterprises, and they have to be like Gu Cheng, who does not treat money as money, to play like this.
Gu Cheng has a glance at the information content, and there are currently two of the world's top 5 supercomputing machines from North America and China, and one from Switzerland.
Top1 is Summit, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in North America;
Top2 is Sierra, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA;
The top 3 are Sunway TaihuLight;
Top4 is Tianhe-2A (Tianhe-2A);
The top 5 are Piz Daint, at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS);
After its debut earlier last year, Summit achieved a performance of 143.5 petaflops, with 2282544 IMB Power9 cores and 2090888 Nvidia Volta GV100 cores, making it the world's fastest supercomputer, and North America regained the No. 1 position in the supercomputing field and has maintained it to this day.
Gu Cheng closed the consultation page and said, "Xiaoqing, create a new folder, and the index will be called ...... 'Red Queen'." β
Either you don't do it, or if you want to do it, you will kick Summit off the Top1, Gu Cheng is a man who doesn't like to be blocked in front of him.
"Let's use the existing system for the time being, and the performance can be set at 243.5petaflops." Gu Cheng said secretly, he couldn't help nodding silently, he wanted to take out the quantum computer technology at first, but he gave up after thinking about it, Tianqing Company was already very high-profile, to be precise, he was very high-profile.
Gu Cheng is not boasting about himself, but he feels that he is indeed acting more and more demonic, and he feels like an all-encompassing demonic character to outsiders, and the development of those emerging technologies is completely difficult for him.
It is better to use the traditional technology system to surpass Summit first, and then secretly develop a quantum computer at that time, so that in the future, Tianqing Technology's technological breakthrough will be fast, and the 'pot' can be thrown on the quantum computer, so as to reduce its external aura.
Thinking of this, Gu Cheng immediately decided to do so in his heart.
And to understand the situation in the domestic supercomputing field in detail, Gu Chengcai found that this field has also entered the North American "list", Tianqing Technology was banned in North America not long after last year, and five domestic supercomputing companies were also included in the "list", namely Sugon, Haiguang Integrated Circuit, Haiguang Microelectronics Technology, Jiangnan Institute of Computing Technology, and Tianjing Haiguang.
The inclusion of these companies in the "list" is a big blow to the domestic supercomputer industry, and North America intends to stifle the domestic supercomputing industry, especially Intel and Nvidia are banned from selling high-end chips to supercomputing centers in China, which is undoubtedly worse.
After all, the domestic chip industry has always lagged behind foreign countries, and most of the high-end processors rely on imports to achieve, although there are also some domestic processors, but these processors still have a long gap to catch up with if they want to replace foreign high-end processors.
In fact, this is also a lose-lose result, Intel, NVIDIA, AMD and other industry giants have been stopped from providing chip technology to Chinese enterprises, which also has a very big impact on their business.
However, all this changed the whole situation with the advent of the "Tianqing architecture", you must know that the "TQ architecture" does not refer to the mobile terminal or the PC side.
Before the birth of the "Tianqing architecture", there were two major overlords and three major architectures in the chip field, one of the overlords was Intel, which controlled the X86 architecture and was only licensed to AMD, so no other manufacturer could produce X86 architecture chips, even if there was technology, talent and equipment, no, it couldn't bypass Intel, and Windows was developed based on the X86 architecture, so Wintel was unbreakable.
In the field of mobile, the Arm architecture is dominant, whether it is Qualcomm, Samsung or Huawei, they are all developed based on the Arm architecture.
In addition to these two architectures, there is a third architecture, and this architecture is completely open source and free, that is, the Risc-V architecture, and the V word represents the fifth generation that has been developed.
Before the "Tianqing architecture" was born, this architecture may be a great news for domestic chips, first of all, for the use of instruction sets, the Risc-V Foundation will not charge high licensing fees. Open source adopts the loose BSD protocol, which is completely free for enterprises to use, and also allows enterprises to add their own instruction set extensions without having to open and share them to achieve differentiated development.
But last year, a new domestic system "Tianqing Architecture" was born mythically, and its debut was the peak, which amazed the whole world, making it difficult for North America to ban in the semiconductor field again.
For example, the Jiangnan Institute of Computing Technology, which was originally based on the development of Risc architecture chips, decisively gave up the system and resolutely threw itself into the arms of "Tianqing architecture".
Risc is now open source and free, but who knows if it will change in the future? No one in North America can stand this kind of banning at every turn.
As of now, more than 100 domestic technology companies have joined the "TQ architecture" camp, and even some technology companies in Europe and the United States are ready to move, after all, no one can deny the excellence of Tianqing architecture.
The industry has formed a three-legged state of X86 architecture, ARM architecture and TQ architecture, and the potential of TQ architecture is even stronger, because it can cover the advantages of the first two at the same time, breaking through the barriers between mobile and PC.
"Let's find Sugon to cooperate." Gu Cheng swept through the list of five companies responsible for the research and development of domestic supercomputers, and finally chose a partner, adding: "Xiaoqing, calculate how much budget is needed to achieve a performance of 243.5 petaflops. β
Xiaoqing: "Master, the calculation results are out, and the budget amount is RMB4.788 billion, which is a little expensive."
Gu Cheng: "I'll say hello to Lao Qiu later, and ask him to prepare the budget." β
Xiaoqing: "Xiaoqing finally has her own house, long live the master, Xiaoqing loves the master to death, I really want to marry the master!? (????γ
Gu Cheng just picked up the cup and took a sip of water, and when he heard this, he was caught off guard instantly: "Poof......!" β
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