Chapter 1396 National Strength

How long will it take to build a supercomputer with more powerful computing power than Sunway TaihuLight?

Answer, one week.

And it can be put into use in a week.

This is a very incredible answer. I am afraid that no one would think that a supercomputer can be completed in such a short period of time.

Because this is not a personal computer, it takes several hours for a person to assemble a computer. How can a supercomputer be so fast?

Because supercomputing requires horrible power, heat dissipation and other related systems, Google’s parent company once announced a data in 2015 that their company’s supercomputing power consumption in a year is similar to that of a city in San Francisco in a year!

What concept?

The energy consumed by supercomputing is extremely terrifying.

As for why it can be built in such a short period of time, it is because of four words, strategic reserve!

Many people actually don't know that for a country, strategic reserves are not just frozen pork, food, weapons and ammunition, crude oil and energy, which are called strategic reserves.

Strategic reserves include all aspects, and the same is true for supercomputing.

The reason for reserve overcomputing is simple. Modern warfare, national defense networks, etc. all require supercomputing and large data center support.

And these places are also the enemy's key attack targets during wartime, and the concept of strategic reserves is that when these places are destroyed by the enemy, the country can reassemble a set of supercomputers in another in the shortest time. This is Strategic reserve!

It's not that you need to buy chips for assembly, and the day lily will be cold.

In fact, all kinds of chips in the country were reserved before the United States did not restrict imports. Of course, the chip reserves will not be too much, and some of the chip reserves are like frozen pork. With the advancement of technology, they will be released at any time. Old ones, imported state-of-the-art new ones.

Like military satellites, the carrier rockets that can launch satellites actually have strategic reserves. If there is an urgent war need, they can be assembled and launched in the shortest time.

Usually, these things are produced only after someone places an order.

Of course, the launch vehicle you place an order for may not be the one that was launched at that time.

After all, proper inventory updates are also normal. The reserve rockets that have been stored for one or two years are pulled out for you to launch, and the ones you place an order for production are put back in for storage.

In fact, many things in the state's reserves are beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Many things that you have never thought about are stored in the state.

Moreover, the strategic reserve does not only exist for the purpose of combat preparation, it can also serve as a role in stabilizing the market in other emergencies, and it is possible.

For example, some shameless manufacturers immediately announced that their factories were on fire after some chip prices plummeted.

And not only the components of the supercomputer are in reserve, but also the secret base established by the supercomputer is in reserve.

These bases are usually in a state that can be delivered at any time, but they are all sealed and unused, and ordinary people don't know their existence. When needed, they will be put into operation immediately.

Relevant infrastructure such as electricity and national defense networks are all ready, and they will be checked regularly and at fixed points to make it ready for use at any time.

And this time, the supercomputing center requested by Jiang Yanhai has opened such a place.

When it was assembled and running, it took a week. As for how many hardware engineers and different types of work were used in this week, Jiang Yanhai didn't know very well, and he didn't even need to be on site. go.

Because the base has a special person in charge of its operation and security issues, and Jiang Yanhai and the others just need to use the ultra-high-speed national defense optical fiber network to remotely connect to it, and they don't even need to know where it is.

As for this supercomputing system, naturally it will not use any known system, but directly use Erdan's subroutine. Although Erdan's subroutine can exist based on any other program, it is not necessary.

Jiang Yanhai's computer prowess has long been seen by all, so there is no need to hide anything about the computer system.

Moreover, it is very simple for Erdan's subroutine to control a supercomputer. For other users, they will not find any discomfort, and it is very similar to all the systems they have used before.

But if a professional can view the underlying source code of the entire system, they will find that it is actually different from any system they have used.

This is the power of subroutines.

When the supercomputing component is completed, the subroutine enters it, and starts to connect with Erdan, the first one to use it here is not other departments, but Li Ruobai's department.

During this week, Li Ruobai naturally knew what Jiang Yanhai was going to do, so they are now located in the chip research institute in Jiangcheng. other research institutes.

Li Ruobai and the others are very interested in the program written by Jiang Yanhai, because they have many new designs, but it is a pity that these new designs, because there is no lithography machine that can produce them, so these chip designs can only be produced. It is stuck at the drawing stage, and production testing cannot be carried out at all, and even laboratory production cannot be done.

Because the production performance required by its design is the production technology of 3 nanometers.

But with Jiang Yanhai this program is different, and this program has extraordinary significance for the research of lithography machines, because you can test it casually with great fanfare, but in reality, it means a huge amount of money! Because the research and development of new chips is really a huge amount of money.

Therefore, the other experimental aspects have not been informed to the various research institutes yet, but because of the unique conditions here at Li Ruobai, their research institute is the first to test this named Pangu program.

The reason why it is named Pangu is because if it really has the effect that Jiang Yanhai said, it will really be no different from Pangu's Creation of the World, except that it is used in scientific research simulation calculations.

At this moment, Jiang Yanhai is also in this research institute. He and Li Ruobai are together. At this moment, the computers in front of all their teams have the permission to connect to Pangu supercomputing. After they complete the connection, in the programs of their computers, It was the forest scene that appeared. When this appeared, all the scientific researchers were stunned for a moment.

Because this... looks like a movie or something, what does this have to do with scientific research?