"Director Ni will immediately organize experts to verify Guozhi 1000. After passing the test, he will apply for the company's invention patent and announce it to the public, striving to complete the research and development of Guozhi 2000 as soon as possible."
The supercomputer successfully developed by Guozhi Supercomputer Research Institute is named "Guozhi 1000", with a peak performance of 1.2 teraflops. Once verified and announced to the public, it will top the domestic supercomputer rankings and rank in the top500 list. Ranked 65th, this is the first time that a Chinese supercomputer has entered the 100th.
One teraflops is equivalent to one trillion floating point operations per second.
"Okay, Mr. Sun!"
Director Ni believes that these more than half a year have been the most fulfilling period in his life. One person has the final say. The institute does not need to report to superior leaders for instructions, nor does it need to waste time on scientific research funds and logistics. Scientific researchers have no need. For political study and scientific research paper tasks, there is no need to find connections for professional title evaluations and housing allocations. The exquisitely decorated elevator rooms grow taller under everyone's eyes. When the time comes, everyone will have it, and the salary and benefits are 2 or 3 times that of the original unit. times, bonuses and professional titles are linked to scientific research projects, and there is no upper limit on bonuses. In order to gain both fame and fortune, scientific researchers use one day as two days.
Director Ni does not need to worry about the assembly, production, sales and after-sales of "Guozhi 1000". He only needs to send out R&D personnel for guidance.
The square meter production base has become Guozhi Supercomputer Company. Zhang Hong, deputy general manager of Guozhi Computer (Beijing) Company, is also the manager of Guozhi Supercomputer Company. The production line has been installed and debugged, and 120 engineers and technicians have been on duty.
The "National Intelligence 2000" project has been established, with a designed peak performance of 5.0 teraflops, and a planned investment of 500 million yuan. Once successfully developed before 2001, it is very likely to enter the top three positions in the top500 rankings.
By that time, Guozhi Supercomputer Research Institute and Ni Guanglan will be famous all over the world.
On November 15, the AScI-Red supercomputer ranked as the fastest supercomputer in the world for the sixth consecutive time on the top500 list with a Linpack performance of 3.62 teraflops.
The IBM Supercomputer Division has invested US$500 million and is developing an AScI-white supercomputer with 4.9 teraflops of Linpack performance.
During this period, supercomputers were dominated by American and Japanese technology giants.
In June 1993, when the predecessor to the top500 supercomputer list was first released, the CM-5 supercomputer developed and manufactured by Thinking Machines won the crown; the CM-5 had 1,024 processors and ran the Linpack benchmark with a performance of 59.7 gigaflops. Not only did Thinking Machines receive the supercomputer industry's top honors, but the company also produced five of the top 10 machines on the list.
In November 1993, when the top500 list was released for the second time, the Numerical wind tunnel developed and manufactured by Japan's National Aerospace Laboratory and Fujitsu Corporation won the crown. The first deployment used 140 vector processors to run the Linpack benchmark test. It achieved a performance of 124.2 gigaflops/second.
The xp\/S 140 paragon supercomputer developed and produced by Intel Corporation ranked first on the top500 list in June 1994. It is the first massively parallel processor supercomputer, with 3680 processors and 143.40 gigaflops. The computing speed of \/second ranks first in the world.
For the first six times, the US and Japanese technology giants have launched a tug-of-war to compete for the top spot on the top 500 list.
In March 1996, the seventh list of supercomputers released in Mannheim showed that Hitachi topped the list with hitachi SR2201, which installed the 1024 processor SR2201 manufactured by Hitachi and reached 232.4 gigaflops/second.
In November 1996, cp-pAcS, developed and produced by Hitachi, ranked on the eighth top500 list with a speed of 368.20 gigaflops per second.
In June 1997, AScI-Red, developed and produced by Intel, ranked first on the ninth top500 list with 1.068 teraflops. This supercomputer was the first teraflops computer.
AScI-Red, owned by Intel, marked the beginning of a new era of supercomputers. Since then, it has topped the top500 rankings six times in a row.
In the mid-1990s, when vector computers began to become less important, the U.S. Department of Energy's AScI (Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative) program (focused on defense applications) opened up a whole new source of funding.
AScI Red was the first product of this initiative, laying the foundation for American dominance in the production and implementation of supercomputers.
The first of the most advanced supercomputers are often purchased by the U.S. National Weapons Laboratory.
After the cancellation of nuclear tests in Nevada during the Cold War, nuclear weapons researchers needed supercomputers even more urgently.
Many of America's supercomputers are installed at national laboratories such as the Alamo and Livermore.
From a technical point of view, AScI Red is also a remarkable supercomputer, it is a grid-based (38x 32 x 2) mImd massively parallel computer, initially consisting of 7264 computing nodes, 1212 Gb of total distributed memory and 12.5 terabytes of disk storage. The original version of this machine used Intel Pentium Pro processors, each clocked at 200MHz, and was later upgraded to a total of 9632 Pentium II over-drive processors, each clocked at 333MHz.
GpIc bought an AScI Red (2.45teraflops) in June last year at a cost of $55 million.
This AScI Red is composed of 104 cabinets and weighs 197 tons. It is said that there are more than 250 kilometers of optical fiber and copper cables inside. It is equivalent to the size of 200 refrigerators and covers an area of about 230 square meters.
"Once Guozhi 1000 completes the demonstration, you will start advertising and promoting it to the outside world."
"Okay, Mr. Sun!"
Zhang Hong looked expectant. The boss in front of him was Guozhi 1000's largest customer.
"Vice President Zhang, on behalf of Taobao E-commerce Company and Kunpeng Internet Company, I will reserve 4 units first."
"Thank you, Mr. Sun!"
Zhang Hongxi smiled broadly.
Zhu Junsong, Ni Guanglan, Li Kaijun and others also had smiles on their faces.
Li Kaijun is the general manager of Guozhi Computer (Beijing) Company.
The cost of a Guozhi 1000 is 32.8 million yuan, and the market price is 56 million yuan. An AScI Red (1.338 teraflops) is currently priced at US$26 million in the United States, and is prohibited from being sold domestically.
In December 1997, Intel developed AScI Red, the world's fastest supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Energy, with a computing power of 1.338 teraflops, breaking through 1.2 teraflops for the first time. It completed a calculation in 15 seconds that would take 250,000 years and a personal computer would take 2 days to complete. Computational tasks.
The U.S. Department of Energy ordered it at a cost of US$55 million to use it to simulate nuclear experiments, weather and natural disaster forecasting, genetic research, space simulation experiments and other research work with huge amounts of data.
Sun Jian's entry into the supercomputer industry not only improves the global market position of Guozhi supercomputers and increases the global market share of Guozhi computer industry, but also has an important purpose: breaking the monopoly and embargo of foreign high-level supercomputers, and also Can save a lot of foreign exchange expenses.
Once Guozhi 1000 is successfully launched, the price of AScI Red will be significantly reduced.
Kunpeng Internet Company (pIc) still does not have a supercomputer with a computing speed exceeding one trillion operations per second, which has seriously affected the rapid expansion of pIc.
