No. 080 real-world RMB player

Many similar problems will arise in the construction of supercomputer systems. Wei Dongsheng can handle the most core and critical technologies with the assistance of computer intelligent life, but he can't avoid the details of those accumulated experience. For example, a small mistake in the layout of the cooling system can lead to a perfect architecture becoming a pile of scrap metal.

No matter how high the core technology is, it has to recruit people to help.

China's supercomputer industry is currently relatively backward, and the latest supercomputer Top_500 released in November 2003 shows that only three of the top 100 seats are marked as Huaguo. Of the three seats, one was built by IBM. One of the two supercomputers that really belongs to Huaguo, one of which is located in the Institute of Mathematics and Systems Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is the Shenteng 1800 (Lenovo_DeepComp_1800_-_P4_Xeon_2GHz_-_Myrinet) developed by Lenovo, ranking 82nd; The other, located in the Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is a Shenteng 6800 (Lenovo_DeepComp_6800_-_Itanium2_1.3GHz_-_QsNet) developed by Lenovo, ranking 14th.

Although it seems to raise the banner of Huaguo supercomputer, in fact, the foundation of Lenovo's supercomputer business is not far away.

In fact, Lenovo's server division has only been established for two years. Before Lenovo entered the server and supercomputer space, Sugon had been firmly at the top of the list. In order to quickly occupy the market, Lenovo not only poached the senior engineers and some technical personnel of Shuguang Company with high salaries and equity, but also poached the user resources of Shuguang Company.

Then, the relationship between Lenovo and Dawning deteriorated rapidly.

Lenovo just launched the 4 trillion Shenteng 6800 this year, and Dawning immediately announced the development of a faster 10 trillion Dawning 4000A.

Lenovo jumped out to question, saying, peak speed is not the only indicator to evaluate supercomputers, the most important thing is the actual computing speed, the dawning machine has not been built, where is the actual speed? Dawn disdained to ridicule Lenovo, saying, what do you know, after the breakthrough of theory and key technologies, all that remains is procurement and assembly, and 10 trillion times is not a problem. Dawning simply looks down on the Shenteng 1800 and ShenTeng 6800 developed by Lenovo, and last year's press conference bluntly said that Shenteng 1800 is a copy of Dawning TC1700; This year's spicy sarcasm Lenovo's Shenteng 6800: "We have some companies in China that use other people's machines to assemble ......"

In fact, due to the lack of technical strength and the rush of time, Lenovo has encountered serious setbacks in a user's product and does not dare to really entangle technical problems with Dawning.

In 2003, there were only a handful of participants in the supercomputer market in China due to the high technical threshold. Wei Dongsheng entered the field of supercomputers, and if he wanted to hire experienced technicians, he could only follow the example of Lenovo in the past and use high salaries and equity to poach Shuguang and Lenovo.

Just like competing for the agency operation right of "World of Warcraft", Wei Dongsheng has to rely on money to break into the supercomputer market.

If you can't accumulate technology, you can make up for it with money, which is similar to the idea of RMB players in freemium games.

Wei Dongsheng is now going to be a real RMB player in the real world.

Fortunately, Wei Dongsheng is rich.

Spring and Autumn series companies, the largest expenditure is 830 million yuan to sign a contract with "World of Warcraft", after Lei Jiafei's negotiation, 3 million yuan of signing money has been paid in November 2003; The $6.8 million for the pre-development investment was paid in instalments, with the first tranche of $2.8 million agreed to be paid in January 2004.

What's more, this fund goes through the accounts of the Spring and Autumn Network, and there is no need for Wei Dongsheng to pay for it privately.

As mentioned earlier, when Wei Dongsheng registered the Spring and Autumn Network Company, in view of the fact that the online game "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" could not be accurately valued at that time, Wei Dongsheng simply split its ownership and operation rights. Wei Dongsheng also registered Spring and Autumn Software Company, fully owned all the copyrights of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms", and then transferred the operation right of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" to Spring and Autumn Network with a contract contract of 5 million yuan and a 30% sales share. As of November 30, 2003, the total sales of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" had accumulated to 335.1 million yuan, and the 30% sales share transferred to Spring and Autumn Software totaled about 100 million yuan.

Spring Software's pre-tax income is 100 million yuan.

Spring and Autumn Software is wholly owned by Wei Dongsheng.

This 100 million yuan is exclusive to Wei Dongsheng.

If the future victory or defeat is unpredictable, 100 million yuan investment in the field of supercomputers is purely a waste. However, Wei Dongsheng has computer intelligent life assistance, and computer intelligent life has even simulated the design of a supercomputer, as long as the assembly problem in the real world is solved, it is a successful project. Since it is a project that is bound to succeed, there is no need to consider failing to pay tuition, 100 million yuan is enough for Wei Dongsheng to save a supercomputer.

Of course, Wei Dongsheng would not be stupid enough to bear all the capital expenses and risks himself.

Wei Dongsheng also urged the server of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" to be updated to a high-performance computing cluster on the grounds that "the number of players in the Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms is increasing day by day, and the server is on the verge of the load limit". In order to save money, reduce risks, and accumulate technical heritage, Spring and Autumn Network should cooperate with Spring and Autumn Software to invest in the development of supercomputers and high-performance computing clusters. With supercomputers in the front and high-performance computing clusters behind, Wei Dongsheng and others embezzled the R&D funds of the Chunqiu Network high-performance computing cluster to develop the supercomputers that are most urgently needed for computer intelligent life.

In Wei Dongsheng's future plan, supercomputers do not belong to the business scope of the Spring and Autumn series of companies, so he registered the "Smart Universe" brand, referred to as Zhiyu series companies.

Wisdom Universe Information Industry Co., Ltd. is the first company of the Zhiyu series, and the R&D and manufacturing of supercomputers is the first business of Wisdom Universe Information Industry Company.

Lenovo shares a common historical relationship with Sugon, and it is a 20-year-old company, so it is relatively easy to dig into the corners of Sugon. However, Spring and Autumn Network and Spring Software, which have only been established for one year, have no history of supercomputer research and development before, and now they do not have enough huge funds to be wasted, so their attraction to senior engineers in the field of supercomputers is very limited. Wei Dongsheng asked Jing Minqiang to help, but it was difficult to recruit suitable candidates, so he could only increase the salary over and over again, and recruit technical personnel at a premium of two, three or even five times.

A senior engineer named Xiao Lei, whose family was in urgent need of money, Wei Dongsheng directly offered "3 million yuan settling-in allowance and 5 million interest-free loans", and successfully persuaded him to join the intelligent universe information industry. Considering that technicians have always believed in the credibility of technicians, Wei Dongsheng decided to take Xiao Lei as a breakthrough point.

Xiao Lei is a workaholic, and it took him several days to finish his family affairs and drive back to Yanjing. Wei Dongsheng rushed to condole when he heard the news: "Are you busy with family affairs?" If there is trouble, just say it to the company. ”

Xiao Lei was quite uncomfortable with Wei Dongsheng's condolences.

Xiao Lei graduated from the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University in 1993, received a master's degree and a doctorate degree from the Institute of Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and then went to Japan as a visiting scholar before returning to China at the end of 2002. Xiao Lei has graduated from undergraduate for ten years, but Wei Dongsheng is still a sophomore in high school, such an age gap and such a status gap make Xiao Lei quite unsuitable for the age gradient of the private enterprise system.

Xiao Lei is a typical technician, introverted and slightly wooden, although he is not suitable for Wei Dongsheng's condolences, but he can maintain communication in a question-and-answer manner.

Xiao Lei thanked Wei Dongsheng for his concern: "It's okay anymore." ”

Wei Dongsheng: "Is 3 million settling-in allowance and 5 million interest-free loans enough?" If that's not enough, just say, the company will never let you shed both blood and tears. ”

Xiao Lei hurriedly said: "Enough, enough, 3 million is enough." ”

Wei Dongsheng: "Is it really enough?" ”

Xiao Lei: "That's enough." ”

Before the condolences, Wei Dongsheng had already learned about Xiao Lei's family difficulties.

Xiao Lei is a native of Puyang City, Henan Province, and like Wei Dongsheng, he comes from a poor rural area. Xiao Lei has two brothers, Xiao Lei is the eldest and is only one year old from the second brother. In the eighties, Xiao Lei and his second brother desperately squeezed to the single-plank bridge for the college entrance examination, but the Xiao family was so poor that they couldn't afford the brothers' tuition and miscellaneous fees. Xiao Lei wanted to drop out of school for his second brother to study at that time with the idea of his eldest brother like a father, but the second brother's attitude was more resolute than him: "You are the seventh in the grade, I am the seventeenth in the grade, you have a greater hope of being admitted to the university than me, and I will drop out of school if you want to quit." Besides, you won't mix with society, and you won't be able to make as much money as me if you drop out of school. ”

Then, the second brother of the Xiao family dropped out of school, and Xiao Lei continued to study.

In order to make up for Xiao Lei's tuition and miscellaneous fee gap, the second brother of the Xiao family tried every means to make money, grinding sesame oil, soaking bean sprouts, roasting sweet potatoes, etc., and the banknotes full of greasy and charcoal ash paved the way to Tsinghua University for Xiao Lei. However, graduating from college does not mean being rich, especially Xiao Lei, who chose the scientific research route. When he went to Japan for a master's degree, a doctorate, or a visiting scholar, Xiao Lei's pocket was as empty as before, and he didn't slowly have some savings until he returned to China last year.

is completely different from Xiao Lei's university-to-scientific research route, and the second brother of the Xiao family is going to another path in life.

The second brother of the Xiao family dropped out of high school in the first year of high school, and only had a junior high school education, so he had no way to hope for a high-level job. However, the second brother of the Xiao family was also unwilling to farm in his hometown, and when the tide of migrant workers appeared, he immediately went south with the tide. After the second brother of the Xiao family was displaced for several years, he bought a snack store in Shenhai City, although he was far from a successful career, he had no worries about food and clothing. Because the business of the small restaurant is good, the second brother of the Xiao family is even more generous than Xiao Lei, a doctor, and sometimes he will subsidize Xiao Lei.

Seeing that life is getting better day by day, the Xiao family has not yet sighed and finally survived, and the second brother of the Xiao family suddenly bumped into a disaster from the sky.

The source of the disaster is the child of the second brother of the Xiao family.

Unlike Xiao Lei, who is not married yet, due to the difficulty of marriage in the countryside, the second brother of the Xiao family took advantage of his youth and got married in a hurry as soon as he dropped out of school, and the baby is now thirteen years old. The second brother of the Xiao family's career is in Shenhai, his hometown is in Puyang, and the child's school registration is naturally in Puyang's hometown. The second brother of the Xiao family didn't say anything, but deep down he was very envious of Xiao Lei's life, and hoped that the child would break through the social class barrier like Xiao Lei. A small restaurant owner like the second brother of the Xiao family can't expect his children to take the college entrance examination in Shenhai, so he can only obediently go home to participate in the Henan college entrance examination in the hell mode.