No. 084 is only a weapon and a name, and no dummies

However, the Spring and Autumn series company is a small company after all.

Wei Dongsheng recklessly sacrificed a big killer weapon that disintegrated the existing firewall principle, and he would definitely usher in uncontrollable peeping. Therefore, Wei Dongsheng screened the preciousness of the data, and deliberately kept the core technologies that IBM and other companies strictly guarded in his own hands, and the relatively less core information would be shared with Xiao Lei.

To tell the truth, the information is incomplete, and Xiao Lei feels normal: if IBM and other companies are lax to the point that the core information is stolen casually, how can they be worthy of its great reputation.

Moreover, Xiao Lei has no heart to care about network security.

These days, Xiao Lei has poured all his energy into the design of a supercomputer called "Cambrian 2004" in Wei Dong's life.

Xiao Lei was very ashamed, he had been in the industry for more than ten years, but he couldn't understand Wei Dongsheng's "Cambrian 2004" supercomputer architecture. At first, Xiao Lei once scoffed at this as a fantastical design plan, correcting the mentality of research, trying to find enough reasons to reject the design. However, Xiao Lei became more and more shocked that the heterogeneous algorithms and architectures of "Cambrian 2004" were logically self-consistent.

The design of the Cambrian 2004 supercomputer is not complete without the slightest error, and Xiao Lei's horror is that there is no obvious error in the theory.

That is to say, the design plan given to him by Wei Dongsheng is very likely to be true.

If it's true......

The supercomputer industry in China and even the supercomputer community around the world will attract violent shocks.

Xiao Lei didn't believe that "Cambrian 2004" was designed by Wei Dongsheng at all, and asked euphemistically about its origin: "'Cambrian 2004' is the upcoming product of which company?" ”

Wei Dongsheng: "Intelligent Universe Information Industry." ”

Xiao Lei said with a smile on his face: "'Cambrian 2004' is indeed very detailed, however, if we want to turn it from a theoretical hypothesis into a real product, there are still many key problems that need to be solved urgently. Although I have worked in Sugon for more than ten years and witnessed the development process from 'Sugon 1000' to 'Sugon 4000-L', I have never practiced a supercomputer project based on heterogeneous computing. Even, the 'Dawning 4000A' in preparation, the chip only uses AMD_Opteron_850 processor. In front of Cambrian 2004, I was an elementary school student who needed to make up for the lessons, and I had to communicate more with the designers in order to quickly turn the theory into reality. ”

Wei Dong was aware of Xiao Lei's attitude.

Wei Dongsheng examines the history of supercomputer development, which is simply divided into several stages: the traditional era, the era of computer building, the era of energy saving, and the era of heterogeneity.

In the early days, every supercomputer was expensive because not only the processor had to be designed, but also the cables for the high-speed interconnected network. In the era when supercomputers were out of reach, Wei Dongsheng named it the traditional era, and every supercomputer at that time was a real supercomputer.

With the great development of personal computers and networks, people began to try to build supercomputers with mass-produced computer accessories. Several PC-level chips, connected by a network, split tasks and processed in parallel, were no less powerful than those of expensive specialized computers, and supercomputers began to be democratized. Wei Dongsheng named this era the era of building computers.

There are limits to building PCs. For example, if one person spends 6,000 seconds digging a well, 6,000 people cannot dig a well in one second. 6,000 people are more efficient than one person, but they can't dig a well in one second, which is the limitation of parallel computing and the shortcomings of built-up supercomputers. According to research, one of the core issues in limiting the number of built-up devices is power consumption. Power and heat generation issues have led to the inability to build supercomputers with unlimited CPU stacking. As a result, supercomputer developers no longer pursue the high performance of a single core, but instead comprehensively consider issues such as power consumption and power saving, and IBM's successful blue gene (Blue_Gene) supercomputer announced this year is the work of this concept. Wei Dongsheng named this era the era of energy conservation.

At the end of 2003, IBM's blue gene had just opened the climax of the energy-saving era.

However, Wei Dongsheng's "Cambrian 2004" is a work of the heterogeneous era after the era of energy conservation.

The so-called heterogeneity, the simplest and most straightforward impression, is the CPU with the GPU. Before the heterogeneous era, for example, the "Dawning 4000A" supercomputer in preparation, the basic chips were all CPUs; Supercomputers in the heterogeneous era, such as the famous "Tianhe-1" supercomputer in the future, with GPUs are the image concept, and the technical reserves behind them are heterogeneous computing.

At the end of 2003, heterogeneous computing had not received strategic attention.

Speaking of which, the beginning of the heterogeneous wave should be traced back to the Cell processor.

As early as 2001, Sony announced that it had hired IBM to design the processor "Cell" for the PS3 game console, saying that the Cell's computing power would reach an unprecedented one trillion floating point calculations per second. At that time, the first reaction of the outside world was that Sony and IBM were bragging again. From 2001 to 2003, the design of the Cell was still not completed, and public opinion slowly forgot about the Cell project.

Wei Dongsheng knows that the Cell project will be successful in the future, and heterogeneous computing is also feasible

Heterogeneous computing is the future trend.

Therefore, Wei Dongsheng played the role of a genius who took half a step forward and came up with a supercomputer design scheme with a heterogeneous computing structure.

If all goes well, Cambrian 2004 will be the first wave of heterogeneous computing.

If Wei Dongsheng only said that the CPU and GPU could be matched together, Xiao Lei would most likely laugh at it. In fact, there has long been exaggerated propaganda by public opinion, saying that GPU characteristics can be used to develop personal supercomputers; It is the concept of heterogeneous computing, which also emerged as early as the mid-80s of the last century. However, there are thousands of mountains and rivers between concept and theory, and between theory and practice. Wei Dongsheng's strength lies not in proposing the concept of heterogeneous computing supercomputers, but in proposing detailed theories that can be implemented by virtue of his solid plagiarism or reference foundation.

If Wei Dongsheng's design plan is full of loopholes and forward-looking, it will be difficult for Xiao Lei to really pay attention to it.

Supercomputer development is a highly specialized job, and who has the leisure to listen to the daydreams of a high school student. In this era when the wave of heterogeneous computing has not yet fluctuated, not everyone has spent money and energy to improve the heterogeneous computing framework. Wei Dongsheng's design plan is complete and complete, and he can't find key mistakes, and he really points out a direction, so Xiao Lei will be so shocked by the "Cambrian 2004" supercomputer with an unprecedented heterogeneous computing structure.

Wei Dongsheng calmly faced Xiao Lei's questioning, smiled and said: "I have already said that I am the designer of 'Cambrian 2004'." If you don't believe me, if you have questions, just come and ask me. ”

Hearing Wei Dongsheng's sonorous words with such confidence, Xiao Lei was stunned: "You really designed it?" ”

Wei Dongsheng: "You come to test me." ”

Xiao Lei hesitated for a few seconds, confronted Wei Dongsheng with a straight personality, and pointed to a solution: "Why is it designed like this here?" ”

Wei Dongsheng is familiar with the framework of the "Cambrian 2004" supercomputer, and immediately gave a long and detailed explanation: "Here, I have calculated the mapping and scheduling mechanism of tasks, and such algorithms are more efficient and can optimize resource allocation......

Wei Dongsheng talked eloquently and introduced the optimization concept of resource allocation to Xiao Lei.

As soon as the connoisseur speaks, he will know if there is one.

Xiao Lei communicated with Wei Dongsheng for a moment on technical issues, and immediately understood that Wei Dongsheng did not know how to pretend to understand, but really understood.

Really understand!

If you really understand, then what was called simple ...... before?

Could it be that Wei Dongsheng really thinks it's simple?!

Xiao Lei couldn't help but take a cold breath.

What a gift.

Xiao Lei previously looked down on Xiao Lei because of his status as a sophomore in high school, but now he looked down on Wei Dongsheng because Wei Dongsheng pretended to be boastful, and misunderstood that Wei Dongsheng was a true genius.

Xiao Lei is actually more receptive to the aura of genius than ordinary people, because his alma mater, Tsinghua University, and his neighbor, Yenching University, are both the highest universities in China, and the top students in the college entrance examination and the top students at the same level are pushed into it every year, and there is never a lack of soil for rare beast type geniuses. In other words, before Xiao Lei was admitted to Tsinghua University, the computer had the impression of a super radio in his mind. At the beginning of admission, Xiao Lei didn't understand computers and didn't like computers very much. Xiao Lei has a classmate who can mentally calculate calculus and oral arithmetic Fourier transform, which makes people doubt his brain structure. The reason why Xiao Lei was keen on studying supercomputers was because he was stimulated by this classmate's strong mathematical talent, and he felt that he had to be equipped with a supercomputer to catch up with him.

Xiao Lei misunderstood that Wei Dongsheng was a super genius like his classmates.

Thinking of his old classmates saying that calculus is not more difficult than addition and subtraction, and thinking of Wei Dongsheng's saying that supercomputers are simple, Xiao Lei seems to see the ladder between demons and humans.

Xiao Lei has seen many geniuses, and he is also used to these geniuses who are gifted and demonic. Xiao Lei simply accepted the "fact" that Wei Dongsheng was a top genius, and apologized to Wei Dongsheng when he knew his mistake: "Cambrian 2004 turned out to be really designed by you. Hey, standing with you geniuses, I always feel like I'm a chimpanzee who hasn't fully evolved yet. ”

Wei Dongsheng smiled: "It's itchy for a while." ”

More than ten years after Xiao Lei graduated, his thinking gradually matured, and he no longer wasted time with inferiority or lamented the talent of others, and gave priority to doing his own work well. After verifying that Wei Dongsheng really understood supercomputer design and verified that the supercomputer with heterogeneous computing framework was really operable, Xiao Lei discussed with Wei Dongsheng with great interest.

At the same time, Wei Dongsheng has no intention of leaving the supercomputer business behind.

Wei Dongsheng's weapon to gallop the Internet is computer intelligent life, and supercomputer is the basis for computer intelligent life cyanobacteria to advance to blue fern. If you want to control 100 percent of computer intelligent life, you must control 100 percent of the supercomputer, if you don't understand the basic knowledge and infrastructure of supercomputers, how can Wei Dongsheng dare to use computer intelligent life with peace of mind?

Computer intelligence is not a pet bound to the game. If we unfortunately encounter special circumstances and hostile forces have robbed the supercomputer, it is not impossible to persuade the computer to surrender intelligent life. In order to avoid this kind of accident, Wei Dongsheng must master the core technology of supercomputers and control the intelligent life of computers in a real sense.

There are some benefits that Wei Dongsheng can share, such as cooperation with Huo Yongshan, such as taking advantage of Jing Minqiang; And some interests, such as computer intelligent life, Wei Dongsheng must hold tightly in his hands.

Zuo Biography said: Only the weapon and the name, not the dummy.

That's what I'm saying.