No. 095 low-key thinking leads to misunderstandings

Of course, times are evolving, and supercomputer technology is moving forward at a rapid pace. As far as Xiao Lei knows, from November 2003 to May 2004, at least two supercomputers exceeded the threshold of 10 trillion times, and in the new issue of the global supercomputer Top_500, the Cambrian 2004 experiment A should be ranked fifth or sixth in the world.

However, it cannot be expected that Cambrian 2004 Experiment A must be the first in the world.

The results of Cambrian 2004 Experiment A are already very good.

Lenovo last year ranked 14th in the world Shenteng 6800, the highest performance in the actual test of Linpack software was 4.183 trillion times per second. Similarly, the dawn of the constant war of words with Lenovo, its advertised ten-trillion-level supercomputer Dawning 4000A, is said to have the highest performance in actual tests of only 8.061 trillion times. The Cambrian 2004 experimental product A, referred to as Cambrian 2004A, has a value of 11.61 trillion times, which is 1.44 times that of Dawning 4000A and 2.77 times that of Shenteng 6800.

By the standard Top_500 of supercomputers, Cambrian 2004A is the first supercomputer in China to cross the threshold of 10 trillion times.

In other words, Wei Dongsheng's research on supercomputers is to adapt to computer intelligent life. In view of the fact that supercomputers are technology-based projects and cannot follow the market explosion like "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms", Wei Dongsheng originally planned to "build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slowly become king" to slowly accumulate industry reputation and make the achievements of supercomputers more natural.

It's a pity that this is just Wei Dongsheng's wishful thinking.

Xiao Lei is willing to call on friends to go all out to build a supercomputer, provided that the hope brought by heterogeneous computing ideas. These technicians, regardless of the threat of Dawn or Chinese Science Computer, followed Xiao Lei to the intelligent universe information industry to do projects, pursuing not only a premium salary, but also to witness the birth of a supercomputer at the level of ten trillion or even tens of trillions. If Wei Dongsheng had the corresponding theoretical skills but did not allow them to brush the records, Xiao Lei's team would immediately lose its existence foundation.

The first phase of the Cambrian 2004 study, the reason why it was set at the 10 trillion level, was for the Dawning 4000A of Sugon.

Cambrian 2004A and Dawning 4000A are actually a scientific research competition, a spontaneous scientific research competition by Xiao Lei's team.

If Wei Dongsheng does not allow Xiao Lei's team to compete with Shuguang for the honor of the first 10 trillion-level supercomputer in order to keep a low profile, a large part of Xiao Lei's team will choose to leave. The reason why Xiao Lei was able to ignore the difference between private enterprises and state-owned enterprises and lead a reliable team was the honor and hope of Cambrian 2004. With technology and results, the technicians in Xiao Lei's team will not be afraid of soft or hard threats from the Institute of Computer Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is precisely for this reason that Xiao Lei found that the theoretical limit of Dawning 4000A is about 12 trillion times, and immediately raised the theoretical limit of Cambrian 2004A to 30 trillion times.

Suffice it to say that the performance of the Cambrian 2004A is a sniper that is carefully aimed at the Dawning 4000A.

Now, Xiao Lei's team has won the victory as a matter of course, taking away the first place in Huaguo's supercomputer from the hands of the Shuguang 4000A. What makes Xiao Lei's team even more proud is that the victory of this scientific research competition is an absolute crushing of eggs against stones.

The Dawning 4000A has a total of 2,560 processors, while the Cambrian 2004A has only 274 CPUs and 242 GPUs. The Cambrian 2004A uses a smaller number of chips to achieve significantly higher performance than the Dawning 4000A. Cambrian 2004A is even just an experimental product to verify Wei Dongsheng's heterogeneous computing theory, if the current scientific research speed is maintained, after three or four months, the second phase of the results of the experimental product B will be born, and its performance will surpass Cambrian 2004A several times.

The Dawning 4000A project and the Cambrian 2004 project are not at all comparable.

As for the former king, the Shenteng 6800 produced by Lenovo has no sense of existence.

Xiao Lei's team was excited to celebrate the successful operation of Cambrian 2004A, but Wei Dongsheng had no worries. After revision, Xiao Lei's team's plan for the second phase of the achievement Cambrian 2004B is to surpass Japan's Earth-Simulator (Earth Simulator), the actual test score of the Simulator is 35.8 trillion times, Cambrian 2004A has just won the first place in China, and Cambrian 2004B has immediately gained the world's first, is this achievement too dazzling?

At the end of the celebration party, Wei Dongsheng quietly found Xiao Lei: "After half a year, everyone is tired." ”

Xiao Lei's excitement did not subside: "I'm not tired, I'm happy." ”

Wei Dongsheng: "Combine work and rest." ”

Xiao Lei: "I'll pay attention." ”

Wei Dongsheng: "From the establishment of the project to the present, everyone has been working overtime to catch up, and the Spring Festival is uneasy. At the end of the first stage, Cambrian 2004A achieved 116,100 good results, so it is better to take a two-month holiday and everyone have a good rest. ”

Xiao Lei was full of energy: "Wait for Cambrian 2004 to end before resting, now you should strike while the iron is hot to complete the second phase of verification." ”

Wei Dongsheng was depressed.

Xiao Lei can't understand his low-key wishes.

Wei Dongsheng had no choice but to make it clearer: "You also know that for the honor of supercomputers, Lenovo and Shuguang don't know how many times they have pinched. The Chinese Academy of Sciences holds 65% of Lenovo's shares through the Chinese Academy of Sciences State-owned Assets Management Co., Ltd., Lenovo and Shuguang are in the same vein, and the fight is so fierce, not to mention that Zhiyu Information Industry is a private enterprise. Take you as an example, after going to Dawn to dig up the corner, how does the Institute of Computer Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences threaten your ......"

Xiao Lei snorted disdainfully: "I'm afraid of him!" ”

The "employment contract" signed by Xiao Lei and Zhiyu is actually a cooperation agreement deliberately rounded up by the law firm, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences cannot take the administrative route to get Xiao Lei in check. Xiao Lei has qualifications, merits and technology, and after coming to Zhiyu, he led the development of Cambrian 2004A, which temporarily ranked first in China, and 2004B, which is about to sprint to the first place in the world. With the Cambrian 2004 project in hand, Xiao Lei and the rest of the team are not afraid of the threat of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Xiao Lei previously insisted on competing with the Dawning 4000A scientific research competition, precisely in order to counter the Chinese Academy of Sciences today.

Wei Dongsheng sighed: "You're not afraid, you're not afraid, I'm afraid." ”

Xiao Lei was at a loss and didn't understand: "What are you afraid of?" Not enough money for the project? ”

Wei Dongsheng was afraid that Xiao Lei would think wildly, so he hurriedly reassured: "Don't worry about money, the Cambrian 2004 project is very well funded. Although the cash cow "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" is no longer growing at a high rate and the monthly sales are becoming more and more stable, the absolute value is still very impressive. The operating income in March was 154.65 million, and the operating income in April was 151.9 million, which is enough for you. ”

In fact, the development of supercomputers is also very expensive, such as Japan's Earth-Simulator, which invested 160 billion yen when the project was determined in 1998, which was equivalent to more than 10 billion yuan at that time. In the Cambrian 2004 project, Wei Dongsheng has solved the core difficulties, and then considering low-cost factors such as human resources in Huaguo, hundreds of millions of yuan of funds have been able to run very well.

Xiao Lei didn't understand: "The money is enough, what are you afraid of?" ”

Wei Dongsheng talked about it and persuaded Xiao Lei: "If you follow the original progress, you will win the first place in China in May and the first place in the world in September, this honor is too dazzling." Let's delay it for two months. ”

Xiao Lei: "The second phase of the Cambrian 2004B is impossible to win the world's No. 1, IBM and HP have plans to sprint 50 trillion times. I'm sure in the second half of the year, Earth-Simulator will be pushed out of the top spot. Our Cambrian 2004B wants the glory of being the first in the world, and the final version of Cambrian 2004 is qualified to compete for the first place in the world. ”

Having said that, Xiao Lei understood Wei Dongsheng's difficulties: "Delay for two months, delay for two months." ”

Xiao Lei didn't understand Wei Dongsheng's low-key needs.

Xiao Lei used to work for Shuguang, but he hated that he couldn't do his best to improve computing performance in limited resources.

For a country, the status of supercomputers is very important. During the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union in the last century, supercomputers, as military strategic equipment, have always been the core of the global technology embargo. After the end of the Cold War, supercomputers gradually evolved from military technology to civilian technology, and countries cooperated extensively, and there seemed to be harmony on the surface. In fact, the core technology of supercomputers has always been a national weapon, and European and American countries have been restricting the development of supercomputers in China.

However, this may also be a good thing. If it weren't for the consistent lockdown attitude of European and American countries, and the prevailing public opinion of "make is better than buy", the country would not have invested resources to track the cutting-edge technology of supercomputers and invested money to concentrate on developing its own supercomputers.

Whether it is the dawn or the Institute of Computer Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, they have never been afraid of dazzling results.

If Sugon has the ability and funds to be the first in the world, it will definitely not be willing to succumb to the second place in the world.

Xiao Lei is also the same psychology.

However, Xiao Lei is not an unknown and dedicated scientist in the ivory tower who does not know the ups and downs of the world. Xiao Lei has run projects, begged for funding, and knows that scientific research and society are closely linked. Xiao Lei guessed that Wei Dongsheng had the funds, willingness and ability to do research, but he suddenly wasted time to play a low-key role, which must have been threatened by an external threat: either someone was jealous of the achievements of the intelligent universe, or someone wanted to embezzle the fame and fortune of Cambrian 2004.

Xiao Lei will not sit idly by and watch such a thing happen.

Cambrian 2004 is a project of the intelligent universe, and it is also his Xiao Lei's project.

The Cambrian 2004 project, which cannot be so sadly stalled, and then died.

Therefore, Xiao Lei promised to suspend Cambrian, but his heart boiled with enthusiasm and decided to do his best to keep the Cambrian 2004 project.

Although he came from a poor background, Xiao Lei, as a supercomputer expert, also has his own network.

In Xiao Lei's team, there is actually a member who can listen to the whole world, Zheng Lixin. Zheng Lixin's grandfather has made outstanding contributions to Huaguo's "Two Bombs and One Star", and he is only one line away from the "Two Bombs and One Star Meritorious Service Medal". It is generally said in the scientific community that Zheng Lixin's grandfather's achievements are between being awarded or not, and the reason why he was not on the list of two bomb fathers at that time may be because of his family background. Zheng Lixin's grandfather, whose family background is as complex as Zhou Guangzhao, the father of the two bombs, and his brother-in-law works for the Kuomintang's National Defense Secrecy Bureau. Zheng Lixin's grandfather was fortunate to participate in the atomic bomb research after being guaranteed by many comrades. Time flies to the present, Zheng Lixin's grandfather has come to Zheng Lixin, loyally dedicating his wisdom to the country, and the complex background of more than 50 years ago is getting weaker and weaker. Although Zheng Lixin's grandfather unfortunately failed to win the "Two Bombs and One Star Meritorious Service Medal", his influence in the scientific community cannot be ignored.

Xiao Lei didn't quite understand how the Chinese power agency operated, and he naturally felt that a scientific researcher like Zheng Lixin might be able to shelter the Cambrian 2004 project.