Moore's Law: The performance of computer processors doubles every 18 months, while the price drops by half.

Decades have passed since Moore came up with this empirical statement, and this law has been fulfilled.

However, during this period, the domestic computer industry was still very underdeveloped, especially in the field of supercomputing, and the most advanced supercomputer in China at this time was the "Galaxy-2", which had just passed the national appraisal four years ago.

However, even this is the most advanced computer in China, and the number of operations per second is only one billion, which has no advantage compared with home CPUs thirty years later.

Not to mention those supercomputers that run smoothly with hundreds of billions of calculations and billions of peak calculations.

Of course, these supercomputers, compared with the protein computing unit embedded in Zhang Xingyang's brain, are simply the light of rice grains daring to compete with Haoyue.

In the 22nd century, the brain computer is the same thing as the mobile phone in the 21st century.

Taking the "Galaxy-5" type computing unit embedded in Zhang Xingyang's brain as an example, the number of operations per second has reached the 25th power level of 10.

More than a dozen orders of magnitude more than the most advanced Galaxy-2 supercomputer of this time.

And its volume is also amazingly small, less than the thickness of a human hair.

In terms of computing power alone, Zhang Xingyang at this time, a person's computing power is actually more than the sum of almost all computers in this world.

Therefore, as long as he wants to, he can get the correct answer to the tail jet fluid problem in the joint experiment of rocket engines.

However, Zhang Xingyang didn't really want to give the correct answer to this question to the people who participated in this experiment.

After coming to this era, Zhang Xingyang has always had a very clear understanding of the role he wants to play.

That's the role of the leader, or so to speak, the teacher.

A really good teacher will not only teach students the correct answer to a problem, but not teach them how to solve the problem.

As the saying goes: It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish!

This principle is also useful in the field of scientific research, and it is better to teach them the solution to the problem by directly giving the result of the problem.

In particular, although the people of the Rocket Research Institute have indeed done a lot of scientific research work in this year's time.

However, many people are still far from being able to stand alone, whether it is in terms of design, control systems, or material research and development.

Seriously, if it weren't for Zhang Xingyang always supporting them behind their backs, many things would not have been done.

So this time, Zhang Xingyang decided to let them solve the problem of engine tail jet fluid.

Of course, Zhang Xingyang didn't do nothing, what he needed to undertake was actually Geng Bo and Qiao Yang to help them verify and calculate after they established the model of the tail jet fluid.

Although the "Galaxy-5" protein chip in Zhang Xingyang's mind can be calculated in less than a second, if he really does this, it is estimated that many people in the Rocket Research Institute will be frightened.

After all, with the complexity of this model, it would take several years to calculate it purely by manpower.

And if you figure it out in a second, either you're lying, or you're not human at all!

Therefore, in order to cover up the computing power that does not seem very reasonable in this era, it is necessary to find a way to lend a supercomputer.

To give Qiao Yang the fluid operation model they designed, and conduct computer simulation experiments.

At this time in China, supercomputing is a very scarce resource, and not all projects can be applied for.

Generally, only key projects related to national key projects can be applied for a certain period of time.

If you only use the name of the Rocket Research Institute, you may be able to apply for the use of a supercomputer, but you will definitely have to queue up.

As for when it will be available, only God knows.

After all, there are too many units that need to use supercomputing in China, and the supercomputing time to be used in the field of meteorological forecasting is indispensable every day, and there are a lot of things waiting to be used in the military industry.

In the field of missiles, which is more important than rockets, it has always been necessary to use high-performance supercomputers for simulation experiments.

Therefore, in order to be able to use supercomputing in advance, Zhang Xingyang found Chen Lao, who was in charge of the Beidou navigation system.

The development of the new rocket itself is closely related to the Beidou navigation system.

An important task of the new rocket in the future is to be responsible for launching the satellites of the entire Beidou III navigation system.

This is also the reason why Zhang Xingyang first came to Chen Lao, which is really related to the follow-up progress of the Beidou navigation system.

Mr. Chen has a great reason to help the Rocket Research Institute gain the time to use supercomputing.

"Old Chen, the supercomputing thing still has to trouble you!"

Zhang Xingyang was very humble and sincerely asked for Chen Lao.

"You're really going to give me a problem, there are only a few supercomputers in China that can check this kind of confidential project."

After Chen Lao drank a cup of Longjing tea, he said with a smile:

"Now all units, with this demand, are staring at those supercomputers almost all the time."

"It's really not easy to buy you a certain amount of time."

"In this way, the Beidou project team itself also has a certain indicator of the time of supercomputing use, and I can give some of it to you first."

Because Beidou is the first time to develop a satellite navigation system in China, it has allocated a certain amount of supercomputing time to simulate and verify the state of the satellite in orbit.

However, Zhang Xingyang knew that this part of the time must be very tight, and Chen Lao was able to squeeze out a part of it for the Rocket Research Institute, and it also took a lot of work.

"Old Chen, thank you so much."

Zhang Xingyang said with some emotion:

"In fact, we can also apply for a certain amount of supercomputing time, but these times are ranked behind."

"If you really wait for the supercomputer to queue up, then it will be difficult to conduct a test launch within next year."

Speaking of the development progress of the new rocket, Chen Zhongyan also had a lot of interest.

Because if nothing else, the first phase of the Beidou construction project will start next year.

In fact, the first phase of the project will only launch three orbiting satellites to form a relatively simple satellite navigation system.

Now I just don't know whether the newly developed rocket of the Rocket Research Institute can be officially put into use during the first phase of construction.

"When will your newly developed rocket be test-launched? When will it be officially put into use? ”

Regarding Chen Lao's question, although Zhang Xingyang is not very convenient to inform some technical details, it is related to the construction of the Beidou navigation system, and it can still be said about the development progress.