"Academician Ni, although the computing speed of the domestic Galaxy-3 supercomputer reaches 13 billion operations, there is still a big gap compared with Fujitsu's numerical wind tunnel, Hitachi's SA2201, cp-pAcS, and Intel's AScIRed. I plan to Guozhi Computer Company invested 100 million yuan to establish a Guozhi Supercomputer Research Institute in Zhongguancun Park to research and produce Guozhi supercomputers, and I asked Academician Ni to be the director."
The group came to the VIP reception room, and the staff served tea.
After receiving the news that Ni Guanglan was willing to join the Kunpeng Software Research Institute in Beijing, Sun Jian was also very happy. He had another academician who was familiar with computer software and hardware. He was thinking about finding a good position and research direction for Academician Ni at home, and providing conditions. Let this upright old man do the research he likes without leaving any regrets. After he learned from Pi Zhuoding that Ni Guanglan had participated in the development of the Shuguang supercomputer at the Institute of Computing Technology of the K Academy of Sciences, he felt happy. .
Guozhi Semiconductor Research Institute and Guozhi Computer Company, which have computer core technology, cannot miss the development and production of supercomputers. In the past life, Lenovo Group, which did not have computer core technology, also successfully developed the Shenteng series of supercomputers, advancing to the world's advanced supercomputer industry. .
In the previous life, although the Tianhe and Sunway series supercomputers occupied the first place in the world's top 500 supercomputers for three times, they were equipped with CPUs produced by Intel and AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, and they stagnated as soon as they got stuck.
Supercomputers are also called supercomputers. As the name suggests, they are not comparable to ordinary personal computers. Personal computers usually have four-core, six-core or eight-core processors, while supercomputers gather tens of millions or even more processors. Can handle large amounts of data and high-speed operations.
"Two bombs and one satellite" are the embodiment of the country's hard power, and supercomputers are also the "two bombs and one satellite" level of national important equipment, ranging from military simulated nuclear tests to civilian weather predictions, as far as space exploration, and near When it comes to human gene sequencing, there is a huge computational threshold. If you want to get calculation results faster, you can only rely on supercomputers.
The United States was the first country in the world to invest in this field. Since the late 1950s, it has been developing supercomputers to meet national defense and military needs. In the 1960s and 1970s, the global supercomputer industry was basically dominated by two American companies, Intel and IBM. leading.
In the 1980s, it cost more than $7 million to import an IBM supercomputer, which was a huge sum of money!
Even if an IBM supercomputer is bought from the United States, according to regulations, it must be placed in a transparent glass room, and the room key is kept by American personnel. Chinese scientists can only enter the glass room with authorization, and must operate the computer under American supervision.
The content calculated by this IBM supercomputer must be approved by the United States. After the operation is completed, the United States will immediately seal the glass room.
The IBM supercomputer's monitoring logs are regularly submitted to the US government for review.
Japan is no less generous. Since the 1980s, the government has subsidized supercomputer research projects on a large scale. Fujitsu and Hitachi compete with Intel and IBM for the global supercomputer crown.
Since 1993, the University of Tennessee in the United States, the University of Mannheim in Germany, and the Berkeley National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy have released the ranking of the world's top 500 supercomputers twice a year, once in June and once in November.
The ranking is based on the test value of the benchmark program LINpAcK. From June 1993 to June 1996, the top 500 was alternately dominated by supercomputers produced by Fujitsu, Hitachi, Intel and IBM.
In March 1978, at the National Science and Technology Conference, the leader said, "China cannot carry out the four modernizations without supercomputers," which started the historical process of self-developed supercomputers.
In December 1983, China's first supercomputer "Galaxy-I", which can perform more than 100 million operations per second, was successfully developed at the National University of Defense Technology. Its design leader was Academician Ci Yungui.
Academician Ci Yungui is also known as the father of Chinese supercomputers.
The birth of "Galaxy-I" broke the technological blockade of Western powers on supercomputers, making China the third country in the world to independently develop supercomputers after the United States and Japan. This supercomputer also got its nickname. : "Chance for success".
In 1987, the "Galaxy-I" supercomputer won the National Science and Technology Progress Special Award, and the hydrogen bomb miniaturization project also won the award.
On November 19, 1992, the "Yinhe-2" 1 billion supercomputer developed by the National University of Defense Technology passed the national certification in Tanzhou, achieving a leap from a vector supercomputer to a parallel processing supercomputer, becoming the second supercomputer after the United States and Japan. The third country to achieve a billion-time supercomputer.
In 1994, the "Yinhe-2" supercomputer was officially put into operation at the National Weather Service for medium-term weather forecasting.
On June 19, 1997, the "Yinhe-3" parallel supercomputer developed by the National University of Defense Technology passed the national certification in Beijing. The machine adopts a distributed shared storage structure and is oriented to large-scale scientific and engineering calculations and large-scale data processing. The basic word length is 64 bits, with a peak performance of 13 billion times, and the comprehensive technology has reached the current international advanced level.
At present, only a few developed countries in the world have mastered the development technology of high-performance supercomputers. The successful development of the "Galaxy-III" supercomputer has brought China into the world's advanced ranks in this field.
"Thank you, Mr. Sun, I am willing!"
Ni Guanglan did not expect that Sun Jian would be moved when he saw such a major task entrusted to him. He was also thinking about what position Sun Jian would arrange for him along the way. He is most likely to serve as a consultant to the Kunpeng Software Research Institute in Beijing, regardless of the main tasks.
Ni Guanglan has not been idle at home in recent years, and is well aware of the development of domestic personal computers and supercomputers.
In October 1993, the "Shuguang-1" supercomputer developed by the Intelligent Center of the Institute of Computing and Computing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was born. It has a peak computing speed of 640 million operations per second and has made breakthroughs in many technologies, such as the use of full symmetry. Shared storage multi-processing structure and operating system core achieve parallelization.
In 1995, the Intelligent Center launched the "Dawn 1000", which achieved many firsts: the first self-developed large-scale parallel processor structure computer, the first actual computing speed exceeding the 1 billion times per second mark. Supercomputer, for the first time independently entered the market for sale.
In the past few decades, the development and production of supercomputers in China were all designed to meet the needs of special departments, and users were promoted and used through administrative means.
After being productized, the Shuguang Tianchao series gradually embarked on the road of commercial sales.
In 1997, Sugon 1000A settled in the Liaohe Oilfield. This was the first time that a Chinese supercomputer independently entered the market, achieving a breakthrough in the commercialization of domestic supercomputers and breaking the monopoly of imported products on the Chinese supercomputer market.
