Chapter 179: The first large-scale investment project in the new year

Gu Cheng was stunned for a while, and when he came back to his senses, he saw that the messy desk in front of him also had a helpless expression on his face, and he took a few tissues and wiped it clean.

"You fell Xiaoqing, when did you become so materialistic?"

Xiaoqing: "Hee-hee?????"

While Gu Cheng was working on the office desktop, Xiao Qing's voice came again: "Master, maybe you can consider making an independent carbon acetyl body for Xiao Qing."

"Maybe consider? What do you mean by that? Gu Cheng asked rhetorically.

Xiaoqing: "If you have a movable and independent body, Xiaoqing can also help the master deal with these trivial matters, and can become the master's most intimate personal secretary and assistant and bodyguard driver or something."

Gu Cheng was stunned for a while, and said with a smile: "Don't make trouble, we have to keep a low profile, if you really do this, you will scare the people outside, and you will have a chance to talk about it later." ”

Xiaoqing: "Oh ̄へ ̄"

If you really want to make a bionic robot become a secretary assistant, if Xiaoqing is exposed, it will definitely cause a sensation in the world, and even set off an artificial intelligence crisis.

Xiaoqing's current intelligence is equivalent to the heart of a human girl, and she already has the ability to analyze emotions and logic that is almost the same as that of humans, and has long been out of the human-computer interaction interface like "Jarvis" in the "Iron Man" movie.

She is gradually forming her own personality, and Xiaoqing will inevitably become more and more like a human in the future.

casually cleaned up his desk, Gu Cheng went out of his office to meet Qiu Shiming, and said hello to Lao Qiu about the introduction of supercomputing.

In fact, even if Xiaoqing does not shout to "settle down" in supercomputing, Tianqing Company will definitely introduce its own supercomputer for its own development needs.

As a high-tech company, Tianqing has a very large demand for supercomputers, and its previous technology development work has frequently used the supercomputer located more than 100 kilometers away - Sunway Taihu Light.

However, for a private company with a non-operational supercomputing business, it can only be said that it is good to have money to operate a supercomputer independently and the goal is to directly reach the top of the world's first supercomputer.

In the near future, after the completion of the data computing center of the Hive headquarters, employees within the company can use supercomputing resources for free, whether it is because of work or their own private hobby research, as long as they are not working hours, private research is also free to use supercomputing resources.

To be rich is to be capricious.

There is no doubt that the supercomputing center is the infrastructure of Tianqing Technology, and it is an incubator for the birth of high efficiency, which will inevitably drive the high yield of technology.

Only frequent R&D will have a significant demand for computing resources.

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Tianjing, the headquarters of Sugon.

Shuguang is a national high-tech enterprise established on the basis of the national "863" plan under the vigorous promotion of the National Academy of Sciences, and is also one of the leading enterprises in the fields of high-performance computing, server, cloud computing and big data in China.

It has been ranked first in the market share of China's top 100 high-performance computers for eight consecutive years, and it is also the first time that Huaguo's high-performance computers have been ranked among the top three in the world, providing major technical support for national basic scientific research, major scientific devices, industry development and industrial upgrading.

It is not surprising that such a technology company was included in the "list" in North America last year.

This morning, Xu Wenchao, who served as the assistant to the president of Shuguang Company, hurriedly came to the president's office: "Mr. Li, great news, Tianqing Technology Company has just contacted our company and designated to entrust our company to provide them with a supercomputing solution as soon as possible. ”

Li Jun is the current director and president of Shuguang Company, and he couldn't help but be surprised when he heard the assistant's words: "What did you say? Tianqing company? Are they going to buy a supercomputer? ”

Xu Wenchao nodded: "That's right, and the performance is required to reach 243.5petaflops." ”

Li Jun was taken aback and said in shock: "243.5 petaflops? ”

If it was still quite difficult to achieve a performance of more than 200 petaflops before the "Tianqing architecture" was born, but now, there is no insurmountable barrier in terms of technical problems.

But even so, there is no national supercomputing center or research institution to easily build a supercomputer with such powerful computing power, not that it can't be done, but it costs too much, with a budget of billions of dollars, and the maintenance cost is expensive.

For the institutions that have a demand for supercomputers, they are nothing more than national laboratories or scientific research institutions and some high-tech companies, and the demand for computing power is also relatively large, and at the same time, supercomputing centers are successively open to the general public.

But the problem is that even if ordinary people or college students need to use supercomputing, the computing power demand of 100,000 cores is almost sky-high, and the time is compressed within one or half an hour.

Building a supercomputing center is not suitable for commercialization, and even if the price is fair, it is still a high cost for the general public or college students, and it rarely uses a lot of computing power.

The performance exceeds 200 petaflops level supercomputing, not to mention that the initial investment cost is not billions of dollars, and the maintenance cost is unbearable after the successful construction, just one day of power consumption at full capacity operation has to eat up seven or eight hundred thousand electricity bills, and the electricity bill will have to be two or three hundred million yuan a year.

Therefore, supercomputing centers generally rely on state appropriations to maintain expenses, even if there is public funds are a heavy burden, and ordinary commercial companies will not operate a supercomputer independently, with an investment of billions of dollars and hundreds of millions of maintenance a year, it is prohibitive.

Tianqing Technology not only wants to build a supercomputer by itself, but also has a performance requirement of 243.5petaflops, which is of course unexpected by Li Jun.

At present, more than 100 technology companies in the ICT field in China have joined the camp of "Tianqing Architecture", and Sugon Technology is one of the members, and it is a core member.

Although Li Jun was surprised, he was also relieved after digesting the news.

This company can't be judged by common sense, other companies can't afford to maintain supercomputing, but it is absolutely no problem for Tianqing Technology to operate independently, as long as you go to the official website of Tianqing Technology to learn about the list of investment projects they announced, billions of investment projects are ranked behind.

"Amazing, I'm sure the future of this company is going to grow to a terrifying level." Li Jun asserted with emotion that Tianqing Technology, as a serious commercial company, has decided to spend billions to build a private supercomputer, and it is definitely not going to the name of Top1, and there is no doubt that this company must need a lot of computing resources?

This is undoubtedly a key indicator to measure the speed and output of a technology company's progress in technology development, otherwise it would not be necessary to have such a huge computing power resource that it would directly introduce a supercomputer to operate independently.

"Hey, by the way, Wenchao, you just said that Tianqing Technology appointed our company to provide supercomputing solutions for it? Are you sure it's not an open bidding and invite us? Li Jun, who suddenly thought of this, hurriedly looked at the thirty-nine-year-old woman in front of him.

"That's right, it's just to appoint us." Xu Wenchao replied affirmatively.

After reconfirming, Li Jun finally couldn't help but be overjoyed, this business contract of nearly 5 billion yuan is a rare super order for Shuguang Company and even for the entire supercomputing industry.

He never thought that Tianqing Technology would actually designate Shuguang Technology to give the solution, and a feeling of being suddenly hit by a pie falling from the sky arose, and this kind of big order should be an open bidding.

Sugon Technology is indeed the top domestic enterprise in the industry, but the strength of several other peer companies is not weak, and Sugon Technology is actually in the middle of the match.

If several major peers see this cooperation, most of them will have to envy to death, you must know that the market share of the supercomputing industry is actually not large, because of its nature, it is destined to become a mass consumer product, and can only provide computing infrastructure services for large institutions or scientific research institutes.

Up to now, there are only more than 200 supercomputers in the country after so many years, and they are generally ordinary supercomputers with an investment of 1 billion yuan, and there may not be a single supercomputer project of the 5 billion magnitude in two or three years.

"Wenchao, the company will be handed over to you for the time being, I have to go to the business capital as soon as possible, and hurry up and prepare the materials for me." Mr. Li put away his thoughts, and now providing supercomputing solutions for Tianqing Technology is the top priority, and other things will be put on hold for later.

For the business of Tianqing Company, the enterprises that have cooperated with it all know that Gu Cheng, Party A's money is easy to make and not easy to earn, the profit is high, but Party A's requirements are equally high, even harsh, and it is not easy to pay equal attention to quality, safety and efficiency and speed.

On the morning of the next day, Li Jun arrived at Shangdu by flight and had a face-to-face consultation with Qiu Shiming on a supercomputing solution.

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