Chapter 84: The Seahorse (Chapter 2/4)

In the discussion and communication with IBM on the second day, IBM and Intel respectively gave a plan that seemed to be very feasible. But these two plans were still rejected by Chen Mengchuan.

The atmosphere at the scene was at an impasse.

IBM's chairman, Ginny Rometti, began to communicate with her team, and shortly after, she gave a confirmation.

Ginny Rometti said to Chen Mengchuan and his party: "In the discussion and exchange yesterday and today, we have expressed great sincerity. We can see that you are indeed coming with sincerity. IBM and Intel are undoubtedly the world's most powerful producers and builders of supercomputers. There is no doubt about it, but the next backup scenario of ours is a special one, and many of our engineers did not consider it a ridiculous and unrealistic plan when it was proposed. ”

"Now, our engineers think this crazy plan might be what you expected, but we want you to hear it." Ginny Rometti said sincerely.

Chen Mengchuan gestured slightly to Toni.

"We'd love to hear crazy ideas, and often a lot of crazy ideas are epoch-making genius ideas. Just as Henri Goebbels and Thomas Edison invented and improved the electric light. Toni smiled and pushed his glasses forward.

After Toni's words, an IBM engineer stepped forward, connected the projector, and turned on a video.

At the beginning of the video, the name of the supercomputer's envisioned solution is "Seahorse"

Two scenes of the animal world and the voice of a young man first appeared.

"In the natural ocean, sea urchins are five-spoke symmetrical sea creatures, they are such perfect structures, hollow spines at an angle of 72 ° to each other, are natural conduits, nerves extend from the inner core to the edge of each thorn in the duct sensing cells, every sea urchin can feel the world through the sensing cells at the end of each thorn in the body, water flow, light, temperature, water composition, etc. They are the most perfect creatures in the marine world. ”

"And on the land of nature, there is a more artistic and more perfect life, and that is the millipede horse land......"

The two 5-minute pictures of the animal world caught everyone's attention.

"These two perfect creatures are the real core development skeleton of the supercomputer of the future. The perfect combination can give birth to more powerful supercomputers. With an ultimate core, 256 giant sea urchin thorns are pierced, and each sea urchin thorn is covered with 768 supercomputing nodes like Illacme plenipes in California. ”

"196608 supercomputing nodes, each node ......," the man in the video slowly recounts his whimsical vision.

After 30 minutes, the video ends.

Chen Mengchuan's heart was beating violently, trembling all over, and he was indescribably excited.

A voice in the bottom of my heart kept telling this: This is the most perfect container for the real Kawachiko!

Toni and the others noticed Chen Mengchuan's mood swings and looked at him with concern.

IBM, Intel and Nvidia also saw Chen Mengchuan's excitement, in the previous introduction, Toni only briefly introduced him as a shareholder of the company, and he did not speak at all in the past two days.

"Yumekawa, are you okay?" Toni asked with concern.

"You need a glass of water, Mr. Chen." Bob Swan, CEO of Intel, unscrewed a bottle of water and handed it to Chen Mengchuan.

"Thank you......" Chen Mengchuan took the water with trembling hands, and drank it clean with a sip of "grunt".

After drinking the water, Chen Mengchuan hiccuped, looked at everyone, and said, "The Seahorse Project is the most perfect plan in my heart, I want to meet this person." ”

Toni pushed his glasses with a smile and said to the crowd: "Mr. Chen is the largest shareholder of Tianzhi Technology Co., Ltd., and he is also the founder of Tianzhi infinite current transmission technology!" ”

After he finished speaking, people from IBM, Intel, and Nvidia all started to commotion. They undoubtedly all knew what a terrible behemoth Huaxia, a company with radio stream transmission technology, would grow into in the future, but they never expected that the owner of this behemoth would be the inconspicuous-looking Huaxia man in front of them.

As a group of people were talking noisily, an engineer contacted the designer of the solution. Without anyone noticing, Gu Xiaoxiao's face was in a trance and fog.

Not long after, a man with a Chinese face appeared at the door.

An engineer at IBM explained, "This is the designer of the seahorse, Kevin Chow. ”

The man smiled and looked around at everyone, and finally his eyes fell on Gu Xiaoxiao, and he slowly said, "Xiaoxiao, I haven't seen you for a long time......"

Chen Mengchuan and the others were stunned, and they were all surprised.

"My name is Kai Zhou, and my English name is Kevin. It's nice to meet you, and it's nice that you've recognized 'Seahorse'. Zhou Kai owed a lot of people.

Then the IBM engineer said a few words to Zhou Kai. Then Zhou Kai officially began to introduce the Seahorse Project in earnest.

In his vision, the "Seahorse" will have 196608 computing nodes, distributed among 256 core connection column ends, and each connection column end will have 768 computing nodes.

Each node is a host, and each node uses a CPU+GPU heterogeneous computing system similar to Titan, consisting of two POWER11 CPUs and 12 Tesla V200 computing acceleration cards; The connection between the CPU and the GPU uses NVIDIA's latest NVLink bus, and the CPU and GPU of each node share a total of 1024 GiB of coherent memory

The CPU and GPU will have direct access to each other to share data, and 2,400GB of non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) will be available for burst caching or memory expansion.

The connection between each node adopts a multi-channel InfiniBand for three-dimensional cross-linking, and the bandwidth of each node is 400Gb/s. The 500PB distributed storage system also uses InfiniBand to tightly connect to the compute nodes. Use the use of a liquid cooling system for cooling.

The theoretical operations of the Seahorse will reach 8000 PFLOPS, which is 80 billion floating point operations per second! This computing speed will reach more than 64 times that of the fastest Suxi supercomputer in Huaxia!

With the process of Zhou Kai's introduction, the whole person's emotions were also excited to the limit, and finally the whole person trembled.

Whether it was Toni, IBM or Intel, everyone was shocked by his crazy idea.

Zhou Kai's gaze swept across everyone, and finally landed on Gu Xiaoxiao, with a lot of sparkle in his eyes.

Chen Mengchuan looked at the man in front of him who was a few years older than himself, stood up and stretched out his hand to him.

"I'm Chen Mengchuan, please give me a lot of advice in the future......"