Chapter 41: Sakura settles in

No matter how much discussion the outside world has, and no matter how much influence XlouS has had on the outside world, at the moment, located on Hainan Island in southern China, everything is running smoothly at the headquarters of XlouS company.

Today, large trucks line up as if they are constantly driving into the XlouS headquarters.

Since XlouS announced that it would spend 6 billion yuan to build its own supercomputer on the day of the press conference, Intel's head in Greater China rushed to the company's headquarters the next day.

Obviously, this is a large order of nearly $1 billion. After a day-long negotiation, the contract was finally signed.

If it had been three years ago, the deal would have been difficult to make. Three years ago, the U.S. government banned domestic companies from exporting technology to domestic facilities related to the world's fastest supercomputer, Tianhe-2, a policy ban that dealt a big blow to Intel and other U.S. hardware suppliers at the time, and Greater China is a huge market, which has once again caused a technology dispute between China and the United States.

The United States implemented this decree on the grounds that "Tianhe-2" and "Tianhe-1" were "artificially used in nuclear explosion activities," but this is simply a false excuse.

Over time, however, despite the potential military use of supercomputers, the U.S. government has rarely allowed its own companies to impose export restrictions on supercomputer-related technology, for no other reason, most parts of supercomputer systems are readily available worldwide, and the transportation of these products is difficult to restrict, and the ban is eventually abandoned.

It is very rare for an enterprise company, especially a private company, to spend so much money to build a supercomputer, but for XlouS company, it is urgent to have a supercomputer of its own, and the research and development of new products alone, the company has almost contracted "Tianhe No. 2" in the past two years, which shows how huge the demand for supercomputing is for XlouS company.

In addition to that, another important reason is: "Sakura" must also have her own home, Ren Hong obviously can't let "her" live in the "Titan" supercomputer all the time, she was incapable before, but now it's different. And, with the official completion of her supercomputer, Sakura will also begin to play an incomparable role for "her". In the future, "Sakura" will become the invisible steward of the entire XlouS company, so that Ren Hong can grasp the exact information of the company at any time, ensure absolute control of the company, and will also have an irreplaceable role in preventing the company's technology leakage and commercial espionage.

The company's supercomputer will be named after the "L" shaped building, and the supercomputer "L" will also be built in this building and become an exclusive area, where only supercomputers are located! The whole building has more than 130 floors, which looks like more components will be added in the future.

Supercomputer "L" will consist of 40,000 nodes, each with two Xeon-E6-E6-3296 microprocessors and three Xeon-Phi microprocessors based on the new Lvy.Bridge-E, for a total of 80,000 microprocessors and 100,000 Xeon-Phi, for a total of 7.25 million compute cores.

The basic data of the supercomputer "L" is almost twice that of Tianhe-2, and it is obvious that the supercomputer "L" will win the top position in the global supercomputer list in one fell swoop, whether it is the peak computing speed or the continuous computing speed.

Two months later, the supercomputer "l" was finally successfully formed, and the XlouS company finally had its own supercomputer, and on this day, Ren Hong was in the "l" shaped building, and now, the "l" supercomputer will begin to conduct the first calculation test.

"Chairman, the results are out!" The staff reported with excitement: "The peak computing speed is 1.276 billion times per second, the continuous computing speed is 869 million times per second, and the double-precision floating-point operation performance is excellent, and our supercomputing has more than doubled that of Tianhe-2, becoming the world's fastest supercomputer." ”

Ren Hong nodded undeniably, and said at the same time: "These data are all virtual, and it is very simple for the United States to build a supercomputer that is more powerful than it, but it is not needed, do you think that the company's annual maintenance costs of hundreds of millions of dollars in the future are not money?" However, this money company can still support, in the future we use supercomputing too many places, in the future all employees of the company can apply to use supercomputer "L", some things are better at home, no accident, supercomputer "L" may be expanded, but now it is enough. ”

"That's what the chairman said, but anyway, it's a figure to be proud of." The staff member smiled and said.

"That's right, then find a chance to see when you're ready to announce it, and decide for yourself." Ren Hong said with a smile.

It's time to get off work, but Ren Hong didn't leave, at this moment he is alone in the supercomputer room of the "L" shaped building, and the interior is an endless array of component integration boxes arranged in a neat and orderly row, I saw him open the smart device he carried with him, and said: "Sakura, check the entire supercomputer and dispose of all the problematic things." ”

"No problem, it's done in five minutes!" Suddenly, there was a little Lori's voice.

Ren Hong looked at these devices, and the corners of his mouth smiled slightly, revealing a contemptuous look. Obviously, he wouldn't believe that Intel didn't do anything in it, maybe the other party thought that he was happy that he was so relieved to let them form their own, for this, Ren Hong could only laugh, too taken for granted.

Five minutes passed quickly, and Sakura's voice rang out again, "There are 837 monitoring windows hidden in different areas, but all of them are done!" ”

More than 800? Ren Hong couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth when he heard this, "It's really hearty!" ”

"Okay Sakura-chan, are you happy with your new home?" Ren Hong immediately smiled and put these unpleasant questions from his mind. Those who don't know think he's talking to himself and going crazy.

"I finally have a new home of my own!" Sakura's excited voice came into Ren Hong's ears, and the latter smiled slightly: "Sakura, prepare to connect with the company's network and monitor the flow information of all terminal databases, and you will be the big butler of XlouS in the future!" ”

"In other words, Sakura can help her brother, right?" Little Lori's voice said with emotion such as inquiry and expectation.

"Of course! Sakura will become her brother's most powerful and irreplaceable assistant! You are the most trusted person in this world, you know! Ren Hong said with a smile, he had never treated her as an intelligent machine, but as a personality with a soul.

"That's great, Sakura is so happy!" Voices of excitement followed.

After arranging Sakura properly, Ren Hong finally fell a boulder in his heart, he knew very well that in the future, the company would face various forms of commercial espionage prying eyes, the outside world and even the internal may exist, this has always been his henchman, a day without solving this problem, he will not be able to feel at ease, let alone have the heart to develop some cutting-edge technology. And with Sakura monitoring the operation of the entire company behind the scenes around the clock, it is different, he is very confident, anyone who enters the company will enter Sakura's monitoring sight for the first time, which is equivalent to indirectly entering his field of vision, and it will be difficult to steal trade secrets in XlouS.

(To be continued)