The 186th three years to the east of the river, three years to the west of the river

In the November 2006 issue of the global supercomputer rankings, Cambrian 2004D continued to hold the top spot with 844.1 trillion Linpack calculations and 280.6 trillion Linpack calculations. The Cambrian 2004D of 844.1 trillion linpack calculations has overshadowed a supercomputer, and the newly released Cambrian 2007 has been shocked to set a new record of 6,182 trillion linpack calculations.

How can this make people chase!

Ji-woo perfectly proves the joke that "only Cambrian himself can surpass Cambrian".

For Yu Zhiyu, Cambrian 2007 has two important significance.

One is the political factor of the national game.

After a period of gestation and the stimulation of Sapientia_3G smartphones, in March 2007, the U.S. Department of Commerce officially issued a ban. The U.S. prohibits Intel from selling high-end chips to the Zhiyu Group and other supercomputer institutions in China on the grounds that it violates U.S. national security or foreign policy interests. In practice, Intel stopped providing chip technical support to Zhiyu Group as early as 2005.

In the previous life, when the Tianhe-2 developed by the National University of Defense Technology won the first place for six consecutive times and was ready to carry out a comprehensive upgrade to continue to maintain the lead, the U.S. Department of Commerce suddenly issued a ban in early 2015, prohibiting Intel from selling Xeon chips to four national supercomputer institutions in China. Due to the advent of Cambrian in 2004, the United States issued a similar ban eight years in advance, which indirectly raised the technical threshold and financial cost of supercomputers developed by other supercomputer institutions in China.

At the same time, the Bush administration and IBM said they would build a supercomputer that would be exascale times per second in order to maintain the leading position of the United States in the field of computers.

As the saying goes, "the wind knows the strength of the grass, and the board knows the loyal ministers", if you don't encounter intricacies, why don't you have a sharp weapon. The more difficult this moment, the heavier the responsibility of Zhiyu information industry, the more exciting the success of Cambrian 2007 is. Moreover, all the core components of Cambrian 2007 have been localized, and the CPU and GPU are designed by Zhiyu Integrated Circuit Design Co., Ltd. and SMIC is responsible for OEM production.

Cambrian 2007 had a Linpack calculation of 6,182 trillion calculations, with a peak rate of 100.1 million calculations. The Bush administration and IBM have just announced that they will build an exascale supercomputer, but how can we imagine that the Zhiyu information industry has crossed out the word "will" and built an exascale supercomputer.

The world's first petascale supercomputer was Cambrian 2004; The world's first petascale supercomputer was Cambrian 2004; The world's first exascale supercomputer was again Cambrian 2007. Zhiyu information industry has a monopoly on the record of 100 billion to 100 billion times, and the dominant advantage is self-evident.

In this way, the US Department of Commerce's ban instantly became a joke.

In particular, the Cambrian appeared quickly, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued a ban in March 2007, and Zhiyu Information Industry announced the successful development of Cambrian 2007 in May 2007.

Slap in the face and don't stay overnight!

Cambrian's success in 2007 made the Commerce Department's restrictions a joke.

The second is the distribution of domestic interests.

As mentioned earlier, the reason for the dilemma of funds during the Tenth Five-Year Plan period is that the state cannot afford it, not because it does not attach importance to the development of high-performance computers. From 2001 to 2006, thanks to the rapid development of the domestic economy, the funding for high-performance computers increased.

However, it is important to note that the national perspective will only consider whether there is a problem of whether there is a national layout, and will not consider who has and who does not. That is to say, thinking about the problem at the national level, there is no essential difference between the Tianhe-2 developed by Tsinghua University and the Tianhe-2 developed by the National University of Defense Technology.

Since Xiao Lei and other core R&D teams are purely local, private enterprises and state-owned enterprises have little to do with each other.

Moreover, in the face of accusations from private enterprises, Wei Dongsheng cleanly threw out a total investment of 10 billion yuan in scientific research from 2007 to 2012, and frankly communicated with various departments: "If you are willing to contribute in equal proportions, Zhiyu Information Industry welcomes the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission or other state-owned enterprises to invest in strategic shares." As long as the relevant shareholders wholeheartedly support the continued research and development of high-performance computers, Zhiyu Information Industry can become a state-owned holding enterprise or even a pure state-owned enterprise at any time. ”

Wei Dongsheng pursues the power of resource allocation, not the false name of private enterprises and state-owned enterprises. If the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission is willing to climb the science and technology tree in the direction designed by Wei Dongsheng, and is willing to indirectly provide billions or even billions of R&D funds by way of shares, Wei Dongsheng still can't ask for it.

It's a pity that the national scientific research funding focuses on the overall situation, and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission also focuses on the whole country, and there is no capital to accompany Wei Dongsheng to burn money and climb science and technology. After a long period of negotiation, Yenching University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Tsinghua University, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences held 4% of the shares with various resources and annual allocation of certain funds, while Panyang City held 8% of the shares with land, policy, and financial support, taking a total of 20% of the shares of Zhiyu Information Industry.

Equity is both a right and a responsibility, and it is a reputation and a deep pit. Under such an equity ratio, if Zhiyu injects 8 billion yuan of R&D funds into Zhiyu Information Industry, Yanhang, Tsinghua University, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences must follow up 400 million yuan of R&D funds in a timely manner, and the Panyang Municipal Government must follow up 800 million yuan of R&D funds in a timely manner. If you are not willing to accompany Zhiyu Information Industry to burn money and climb the science and technology tree, Zhiyu Information Industry has the right to order the institution to transfer equity to a third party who is willing to burn money.

In any case, Zhiyu Information Industry is no longer a pure private enterprise.

Thanks to Wei Dongsheng's cooperation, Zhiyu information industry can completely fill the gap in the country's high-performance computers. Now that there is Cambrian 2004 and Cambrian 2007, which is fully localized, the country has a sense of urgency for high-performance computers, and tends to concentrate resources on the industrial chain with Zhiyu's information industry as the axis, rather than casting a wide net and catching more fish as in the previous life.

Zhiyu's information industry has more cakes, and rivals such as Lenovo and Shuguang have shared less of the cake, which naturally breeds a lot of resentment. For example, Wei Dongsheng chose to study at Yanhang, and the agreed condition was that Yanhang Computer College had a green light all the way. Wei Dongsheng enrolled in the fall of 2005 and received his bachelor's degree and master's degree in January in the spring of 2006. Yanhang School of Computer Science was originally going to continue to award doctoral degrees, and hired Wei Dongsheng as a visiting professor or even a distinguished professor, but unexpectedly, the frustrated group with less cake in the 11th Five-Year Plan came to protest, belittled the significance of Cambrian 2004, and attacked Yanhang Computer Science School's eclectic behavior of reducing talents, which insulted the dignity of the national education system.

At that time, Wei Dongsheng could only hang up as a doctoral student in Yanhang Computer College.

Of course, it's the results that matter.

When Cambrian 2007 was successfully developed, when Cambrian 2007 realized the localization of all core components, and when Zhiyu information industry's high-performance computer research no longer had to be afraid of the U.S. Department of Commerce's ban and intimidation, the protest of the frustrated group in the 11th Five-Year Plan suddenly became a day of barking.

Hearing that Cambrian 2007 was about to succeed, Yanhang School of Computer Science immediately issued a doctorate certificate to Wei Dongsheng and hired Wei Dongsheng as a visiting professor by the way. The School of Computer Science of Panyang Normal University in Panyang City also followed Yan Hang's rhythm, and invited Wei Dongsheng to be a visiting professor of Panyang Normal University the next day.

In this way, the students who participated in the 2005 college entrance examination have not yet finished their second-year college courses, and Wei Dongsheng has completed the triple jump of bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, and has become a visiting professor who makes everyone speechless.

The treatment of Cambrian 2007 is very different from that of Cambrian 2004.

Cambrian 2004B had a glimpse of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, and the public relations department of the Spring and Autumn Group tried to operate the propaganda work of Cambrian 2004B at that time, hoping to brush up on the presence of the evening news network. Unfortunately, the relevant departments refused with a conservative and cautious attitude: "What if the global supercomputer Top_500 that Cambrian 2004B is now advertised as the world's first and November issue is not included?" If the four generations inspect the information industry of the intelligent universe and make a joke, who will be responsible? ”

At that time, Zhiyu's information industry was shallow and had a weak reputation, and many media and organizations were openly and secretly suspected of Xiao Lei's team of fraud. From 2004 to 2007, time made Zhiyu information industry slowly accumulate brand effect and influence, and the Hanxin fraud incident in early 2006 could not affect the glorious image of Zhiyu information industry, because Zhiyu integrated circuit design company launched the Nation series of chips and Zhiyu Technology launched Zhiyu Music and Zhiyu Video have been commercialized into thousands of households.

Cambrian 2004 has been full of suspicion from all sides, but Cambrian 2007 has worn countless halos.

Cambrian 2004B asked for the evening news broadcast but could not, and the relevant departments heard the good news that Cambrian 2007 was successfully developed and greatly refreshed the record with a calculation value of 6182 trillion Linpacks, and hurriedly called off the private celebration of Zhiyu Information Industry, saying that the four generations and a group of cabinet elders would take time to inspect and commend the achievements of Cambrian 2007. After coordination, the time for the four generations to inspect Cambrian 2007 is scheduled for May 19, and the news of the successful development of Cambrian in 2007 will also be officially announced to the people of the whole country on the evening of May 19.

On May 19, the fourth generation came to Zhuwei Supercomputing Center in Panyang City to inspect Cambrian 2007; On May 20, the Sapientia_3G of Zhiyu Technology was officially launched.

From the successful development of Cambrian 2007 to May 19, Wei Dongsheng needed to stay in Panyang City and wait. Because the time of the four generations and other elders is very tight, if there is an emergency, the itinerary must be adjusted in time, maybe it will be late, or it may be early. Under the Chinese system, politics comes first, capital comes second, and Wei Dongsheng, the richest man in China, can only passively cooperate with the itinerary of the four generations and other elders.