Chapter 655: Who Stabbed the Hornet's Nest

After recovering his thinking function, Bai Songtang's first thought was to sum up what it meant to open up the Qingda Lazy God.

Generally speaking, what does it mean for a software to be open source?

For some small software, no one cares about it, but it is just a piece of code lying quietly in the community.

But for some heavyweight software, it is enough to change the world.

When you turn on your computer to read novels, the browsers are open source firefox (Firefox), chrome. The webpage runs on an open source linux system server. You click on the player to play a video, the decoder is open source, and you play a game. Maybe the engine of the game is also open source.

Or you said, you are not using firefox or chrome, which you have never heard of before, but you are using a certain safe browser!

That's right, all kinds of "safe" and "high-speed" browsers "independently" developed based on Google's open source chromeium project (the corresponding open source project of chrome) are absolutely original, and they have never copied code in the open source community. I never put a shell on it and treat it as my own thing. They have written an interactive interface!

Without these open source projects, maybe everyone is still using the old version of IE, which is clumsy and simple.

Or maybe the player you use is Baofeng, QQ Video, yes, these players have never been sued by open source software, they have not used other people's code and have not released their own code, they have not seriously violated the open source agreement, and they have not continued to copy shamelessly. .

All in all, when you turn on your computer, you are definitely not wrapped in the glory of open source software.

At least some merchants won't admit it.

But for the most part, open source software drives the world.

So, what does it mean if a project is open source?

Take a look at the various counterfeit items on the screen of Maojia, do you have any emotion, the Chinese are strong, and everything can be copied.

All high-end things, smart phones, smart routers, smart toys, smart homes, balance cars, drones... everything can be bought in counterfeit versions.

But sometimes, it is not all possible to do this by relying on the wisdom of the Chinese themselves.

Because these things are open source, open source, open source, open source, open source...

Many companies can get venture capital and even make a lot of money just by copying some open source projects.

It is not the first time that supercomputing has been open-sourced. There are all kinds of "garage supercomputing" all over the world.

But "Qingda Lazy God" is different.

This is a real, top-notch supercomputing project that surpasses modern technology!

So what's the impact?

For a moment, Bai Songtang couldn't think too much, he just had one thought: Damn, the previous 700 million was given away for nothing!

Spend 700 million to buy an open source code?

Could there be more bullies in this world?

Bai Songtang looked down at the agreement placed in front of Su Hongyi, and snatched it back with his hand.

His heart is bleeding, this is 700 million, 700 million!

How much can 700 million do!

Su Hongyi smiled, and said: "The agreement has been signed and notarized, and you can't tear it up even if you take it away. Breach of the agreement will go to court."

Bai Songtang wanted to say something, but he opened his mouth for a long time, but he only said one sentence: "How... how can you deceive people like this?"

This boy with thick eyebrows and big eyes is actually so sinister!

"The one who cheated?" Su Hongyi pursed his lips, "Who dug the hole first? If you can cheat me, why don't you allow me to cheat you?"

How can there be such a reason that state officials are only allowed to set fires, but the common people are not allowed to light lamps?

Then he leaned back on the chair and said with a smile: "Besides, who said I cheated you? Do you think that after we publish the code, everyone can understand it and use it? The 700 million you bought It's not the code, it's my service that I bought, let me take a look..." Su Hongyi looked at the document on the table and saw that it said "not less than a week's technical service", and said, "I bought it for a week time."

Su Hongyi's expression is very confident, so confident that people dare not look directly at him.

The code of Qingda Lazy God? It is worthless, whoever wants to take it will take it, and whoever wants it will take it.

But me who knows how to use this code is worth money.

How much is it worth?

One hundred million a day is so valuable.

Looking at Bai Songtang who was staying there, Su Hongyi packed up the things in front of him and stood up, saying: "Didn't you just say to go out to have fun and meet your colleagues in the future? Are you still going now? Go quickly, 700 million in seven days , It costs tens of millions to eat a meal! I have to help customers save money."

Bai Songtang wanted to beat Su Hongyi to death with one punch, and eat? You are exhausting me here!

Bai Songtang was in a daze for a moment, but Su Hongyi was too expensive, he didn't even want to be in a daze more, then turned around and ran away, Su Hongyi was going to find his boss.

Su Hongyi knew that if he followed Bai Songtang to the past now, he might be able to see the person who bullied him, but he didn't care anymore.

Just a clown.

But after Bai Songtang went back, as soon as he told the boss, the boss immediately froze.

"Open source? What do you mean by open source?"

After Bai Songtang explained for a while, this person suddenly became angry from embarrassment: "This...isn't this collaborating with the enemy and treason! This...this is too much! Is there any organizational discipline!"

"It's too late to say this now." Bai Songtang looked at the panicked big boss, and then thought about the calm and composed Su Hongyi, and his extremely sharp counterattack, and sighed in his heart, why bother? Why bother?

"Now is not the time to be angry, let's think about the consequences."

"Consequences? What consequences?" The big boss was stunned for a moment, then he thought of the consequences, and then his face turned pale.

The first half of 2015 was not a glorious year for the entire Chinese supercomputing industry.

Except that Tianhe-2 is still dominating, China's overall superpower is showing a sharp decline.

In the previous two rankings of the top 500 supercomputers, the number of supercomputers in China has been decreasing, and by November 2014, it had dropped from 76 to 61.

As the country with the most developed supercomputing technology, the United States occupies 50% of the top500 seats all year round. In November 2014, it dropped to 231 units. This is a new low for the United States, but it still occupies a 46% share.

With one enemy a hundred, occupying half of the country, this is the strength of the United States.

According to statistics that have not been announced, in June 2015, at the upcoming International Supercomputer Conference in Germany, the number of supercomputing in China will be reduced to an unprecedented low point, 37 units, even Less than 8%, while the United States is 48%...

A rout, an unprecedented rout.

Some research institutes and intelligence agencies that track and study international supercomputing dynamics have issued forecasts in advance. Although the reports of these agencies are not as authoritative as the top500 organizations, their data are also for reference.

In the past six months, the performance of China's supercomputers in the world can only be described in one word, miserable!

Encounter Waterloo, or be beaten back to its original shape?

Whether it is the private sector or the industry, there have been various disputes over the development of supercomputing.

Originally, Qingda Lazy God would occupy the fourth place firmly in this ranking, which can be regarded as an additional seat for China in the top 10.

How great it is to be able to enter the top 10 without threatening your own status.

But after open source this time, it is different.

Aerospace, nuclear energy, supercomputing, genome, these are all real national-level projects, another kind of arms race, the significance of its existence is at the strategic level, some supercomputing is generally applied to animation rendering, protein folding, DNA Various aspects of sequencing, fluid dynamics simulation. There are also some supercomputers, which are applied to explosion simulation and weapon design.

Not developing? Certainly not.

Not only to develop, but also vigorously develop.

But how? This is a difficult question for all to explore.

It is not only China that pays attention to supercomputing, but also the United States.

Ao Guanhai has long been unhappy with Tianhe-2's long-term dominance at the top of the list. He has already signed a presidential decree, requiring the construction of a supercomputer that is several times stronger than Tianhe-2 from 2017 to 2018.

As for the damage of the embargoed chips, it is also the comment of this voice. American politicians slapped their heads: "I can't make a more advanced supercomputer, so you can't make it, so it will be fine?"

Slapping the head is not just a Chinese patent.

This also directly led Bai Songtang to go to Qingda Lazy God for "investigation", and some short-sighted people directly turned the strong alliance into internal friction.

After the open source of Qingda Lazy God, foreign counterparts will definitely study these codes whether it works or not.

In this era when outstanding talents go abroad, the domestic supercomputing academic circle is still much weaker than American counterparts in terms of code discovery and software development. Similarly, the open source code, the United States may have already understood and thoroughly understood the code research soon, then Wasn't the country being hanged and beaten again at that time?

An attempt by Tianhe-2 to add icing on the cake will soon turn into a major defeat for the national supercomputing community. If the technology of Qingda Lazy God really spreads, where will Tianhe-2 fall? Can you still stay in the top ten?

How many units can be left in the top 500 domestically? Can there be ten?

Thinking of the consequences, this guy who was playing tricks and planned to bully a small private enterprise with no roots and no foundation was already stupid.

I just want to poke your forehead and show my superiority.

Who knew it was a hornet's nest!

At this time, the old ladies and gentlemen who were stung by the hornets, the first thought might not be: "This hornet is really ignorant."

Instead: "Who the hell stabbed a hornet's nest!"

...

"You're such a hornet's nest." After Qingzhong Yang received the report, he belatedly called Nanming.

"The person who stabbed the hornet's nest is probably going to be unlucky now." Nan Ming was very calm.

Qingzhong Yang didn't know what to say, he was about to die from a headache: "But you have to know, even if the person who stabs the hornet's nest will be unlucky, the hornet's nest will still be stabbed and burned, killing one thousand enemies, Is it worth it to hurt yourself by eight hundred?"

"What if this swarm of hornets is a special protected animal?" Nan Ming smiled.

He is very confident in the open source technology of Lanshen Technology.

"How do you prove that you are protecting animals?" Qingzhong Yang asked.

"Wait." Nan Ming replied with one word.

...

At this moment, in the distant Middle East, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, Professor Hulam, a Pakistani, stood in the computer room of the supercomputer "Shaheen II", and said to an assistant beside him: "Let's start. "

"Clay's over there..."

"You don't need to wait for them." Hulam glanced at the computer room and said in a deep voice.

This supercomputer, Shaheen No. 2, is the result of Hulam's painstaking efforts.

It mostly used Cray's scheme, but it didn't have a good time working with Cray. The arrogance and rudeness of the Yankees made the professor from the Middle East very unhappy.

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology is the most famous university in Saudi Arabia. Although it has just been established for five years and has only 2,000 students, it has tens of billions of dollars in funding.

Its global enrollment and high scholarships also attract the best international students.

Shaheen II is also the most important part of the infrastructure of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

During the construction of Shaheen No. 2, the extreme director of Clay Company repeatedly asked for price increases in various names, and deliberately delayed the completion of the final commissioning. anger.

But just yesterday, everything turned around.

Qingda lazy god, open source.

The code of Qingda Lazy God comes from Nanming's enhanced CD, which is so powerful that it is beyond imagination.

It is almost compatible with hardware, big or small, although the open source version has been simplified and deleted, and has become several independent open source versions. However, the most famous international supercomputers are just a few general-purpose solutions, all of which follow the same specification standards. Among them, there is an open source version that is fully adapted to the technology used by Cray.

Professor Hulam organized everyone to work around the clock. It took a day and a half to make simple adjustments to Shaheen No. 2 according to the publicly released guidance documents. God's operating system.

Now is the time to test the results.

"The last check before turning on the machine!" The assistant passed on Professor Hulam's order.

"The power supply is fine."

"Cooling system ready."

"The network is ready."

Voices came from every corner of the computer room, sparse and not very powerful.

"Power on!"

hum...

The current sounds, the current propagates at the speed of light, and the electrons travel slowly in the wire at a speed of hundreds of kilometers per second, entering and exiting the various logic gates of the CPU, and the thick cables connect each unit, like a group of containers. The units are activated in sequence.

Huram closed his eyes and waited silently until the assistant reported: "The booting is complete, so far... everything is normal."

Hulam suppressed his excitement, and said, "Run the test program!"

At this moment, Hulam, who was waiting with his eyes closed, did not know that at this moment, a supercomputer suddenly entered the top 10 supercomputers that had not had a new member for three years.

This is the strongest supercomputer in Saudi Arabia and even the entire Middle East, and it is also the first time that a supercomputer in the Middle East ranks among the top 10.

This supercomputer, called Shaheen No. 2, ranks seventh, with 5 trillion floating-point operations per second. At this moment, it is buzzing beside him, like a group of wasps looking for prey .

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(All the data is true, but the plot is fictitious. Although the real name is used, please don’t take it for granted. This is not a conspiracy theory, it’s just fiction, thank you...)