Chapter 657: Reverse Blocking

The supercomputing circle is said to be very large, but it is also very small. There are only a few manufacturers, back and forth, that is, similar technologies are constantly repeated.

The warranty period of supercomputers is actually quite short, usually only five to seven years, and then expires and becomes invalid, and there is no value for continued maintenance.

After Qingda Lazy God’s supercomputer was open-sourced, the first person to try it was an independent “garage supercomputer” owner.

Before Shaheen II of the King Abdull University of Science and Technology also loaded the Qingda Lazy God system, there were still some supercomputers that also tried to apply the Qingda Lazy God system.

These supercomputers are gradually retiring. Usually, these supercomputers no longer need to be fully operational, but are handed over to some second-tier research institutions or teaching institutions for them to study and study.

And after loading Qingda Lazy God's system, these supercomputers were squeezed out of all their performance, and once again glowed with vitality.

If there is a real-time list in this world, many people will definitely see that among the top500 rankings, the rankings in the 400-500 area have suddenly changed drastically, and some of them have already been squeezed out of the top500 After one or two years or even two or three years of supercomputing, it has returned to the top500 list again.

However, this trend is still expanding. Some 400-500 supercomputers suddenly jumped up and entered within 400 or even higher.

Of course, such a list does not actually exist in this world. The top500 is only published twice a year, in June and November each year.

But there is another list in this world called "Lazy God Super Calculator List".

On the homepage of the open source community of "Qingda Lazy God", there is a list of supercomputers. As long as you use the system of Qingda Lazy God, you can submit your test results to this page after passing the test.

At present, there are more than 80 supercomputers on this list.

Of course, many of these are garage supercomputers, and their performance is not powerful, and even some old garage supercomputers are not much improved compared to the current top desktop machines.

The system of Qingda Lazy God can squeeze out the performance limits of these machines, but the desktop system can basically give full play to the performance of the hardware.

There are also some people who, after using the Qingda Lazy God system, chose to hide the test results and did not publish their performance. In the background statistics of the Qingda Lazy God open source community, Qingda Lazy God is currently activated The supercomputing of the system has already approached 200 units.

On the "Lazy God Supercomputing List", the No. 1 is "Qingda Lazy God", with 110 exaflops of floating-point computing power and 300,000 cores.

In the last column of the Lazy God supercomputer list, there is a comparison with the top500. In this number, Qingda Lazy God is 4.

The second place is "Shaheen No. 2". It uses Clay's supercomputer. Its core is different from the general-purpose Intel platform. Ranking, if it is in the top500, it is the seventh.

Of course, neither Qingda Lazy God nor Shaheen No. 2 has ever been included in the top500. If both supercomputers are included, the ranking of the top500 will be changed, and Shaheen No. 2 will drop to the eighth place.

The next supercomputer comes from Europe, the thirteenth.

Then, there are some relatively small supercomputers, and on the top500, they are at least ranked outside the two hundred.

But this series of data can still surprise many people.

At the beginning, some people questioned that the information released by Qingda Lazy God was not true, but the circle of Chaosuan is so small, and it can be confirmed after two phone calls.

Now, the news is explosive, the system of Qingda Lazy God is really so superior!

Moreover, this is a brand new system that has no direct blood system with the previous system linux.

One is a system accumulated over decades, and the other is created out of thin air. Why... the latter is so strong?

This is a question worth exploring.

Some irrelevant supercomputers may use Qingda Lazy’s system very simply, but most of the supercomputers in the world have the backing of countries or large institutions, and they will not easily trust other people’s codes.

When Qingda Lazy God opened up the source and demonstrated its powerful performance, they became even more suspicious. They will not give up until they solve this puzzle.

Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA, noticed it when Qingda Lazy was first open sourced.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is one of the top laboratories in the world. It was once an important part of the Manhattan Project. It produced and manufactured the world's first batch of enriched uranium and plutonium, setting the stage for the birth of nuclear bombs. contribution.

After the end of the Manhattan Project, it still leads the development of many subjects in the United States and even in the world, and is one of the academic cores of the world.

And the second in the world, the famous supercomputer "Titan", is in this laboratory.

As early as a few years ago, the predecessor of "Titan", "Jaguar", once defeated Tianhe-1 and regained the number one supercomputer ranking for the United States. After the upgrade, the Jaguar, which was renamed Titan, was originally ambitious. , who would have thought that it would take several years to be suppressed by Tianhe-2!

To be honest, this is a shame and humiliation for the self-proclaimed proud researchers of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

They also played a part in the ban on the five supercomputing centers in China.

Their supercomputing researchers have never relaxed their pursuit of China's related technologies. In their view, although China's basic disciplines are still weak and not as developed as theirs in terms of technology, it is already a huge threat .

After Qingda Lazy God open source, they naturally dare not use it directly on Titan, but there are not many other things here, but there are many supercomputers. A few experimental or retired supercomputers can be used for experiments .

After downloading the code of Qingda Lazy God, they immediately emptied an experimental small supercomputer and installed Qingda Lazy God on it.

But after the installation is complete, the first part of the verification process, there is a problem.

Qingda Lazy God is a completely interface-based supercomputing system, which looks more like an ordinary civilian system. It is very simple and easy to use. The moment it enters the desktop, a large dialog box pops up.

"It is detected that the IP address of this machine is Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States..."

The huge Chinese font, just appeared, made the researchers stunned, and burst into a foul language: "Fuck, it turned out to be a Chinese interface!"

These people were speechless for a long time. They were obviously multilingual just now. Why did Mao suddenly change to Chinese?

No matter how they operate, there is no response, nothing to do, everyone can only find a Chinese colleague.

This Chinese colleague has also been an immigrant for several generations, and he could barely recognize all the words on it. He frowned and read it several times. He said: "It says that our IP belongs to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Our supercomputer Titan was once used to simulate explosions, so we are prohibited from installing the Qingda Lazy God system, and the supercomputer has been locked..."

The Chinese colleague scratched his head and said, "I seem to have heard this kind of rhetoric..." (To be continued.)