How long does it take to build a supercomputer with more powerful computing power than Shenwei Taihu Light?
Answer, one week.
And it can be put into use in one week.
This is a very incredible answer. No one would think that a supercomputer could complete it in such a short 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 terrible power, cooling and other related systems, Google's parent company once announced a data in 2015. The electricity used by their company's supercomputing in a year is about the same as the electricity used by a city in San Francisco in a year!
What concept?
The energy consumed by supercomputing is extremely terrifying.
As for why it could be built in such a short time, it's because of four words: strategic reserve!
Many people don't actually know that for a country, strategic reserves are not just frozen pork, grain, weapons and ammunition, crude oil and energy. These are called strategic reserves.
Strategic reserves include all aspects, and the same goes for supercomputing.
The reason why supercomputers are reserved is very simple. Modern warfare, national defense networks, etc. all require the support of supercomputers and large data centers.
These places are also key targets of attack by the enemy during wartime. The concept of strategic reserves is that after these places are destroyed by the enemy, the country can reassemble a set of supercomputer in another place in the shortest possible time. This is the strategic reserve!
It's not that you just buy chips for assembly when you need them, then the day lily will be cold.
In fact, the country had reserves of various chips before the United States restricted imports. Of course, the chip reserves were not too large, and some of the chip reserves were like frozen pork. With the advancement of technology, old ones will be released at any time and the most advanced new ones will be imported.
For example, military satellites and launch vehicles that can launch satellites actually have strategic reserves. If there is an urgent war need, they can be assembled and launched in the shortest possible time.
Normally, these things are produced only after someone places an order.
Of course, the launch vehicle you place an order for production may not be the one that was launched at that time.
After all, proper inventory updating is 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 that the country reserves are beyond ordinary people's imagination. The country has reserves of many things that you have never thought about.
Moreover, the strategic reserve does not only exist for war preparations. It can also play a role in stabilizing the market during other emergencies. It is possible.
For example, some shameless manufacturers immediately announced that their factories were on fire after some chip prices plummeted.
And there are not only reserves of supercomputer components, but also secret bases set up by supercomputers.
These bases are usually in a state that can be delivered at any time, but they are sealed and unused, and ordinary people are not aware of their existence. When needed, they will be put into operation immediately.
Related infrastructure such as electricity and defense networks are fully prepared and will be inspected at regular intervals to ensure that they are ready for use at any time.
This time, the supercomputing center requested by Jiang Yan Hai opened such a location.
When it was assembled and running, it took a week. As for how many hardware engineers and different types of work were used within this week, Jiang Yan Hai was not sure. He didn't even need to go to the site.
Because the base has a dedicated person in charge of its operation and security issues, and Jiang Yan Hai and the others only 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, it will naturally not use any known system, but directly use the subroutine of Er Dan. Although the subroutine of Er Dan can exist based on any other program, it is not necessary.
Jiang Yan Hai's computer prowess has long been obvious to all, so there is no need to hide anything about computer systems.
Moreover, it is very simple for Er Dan's subroutine to control a supercomputer. For other users, they will not find any discomfort. It is very similar to all systems they have used in the past.
But if professionals can look at the underlying source code of the entire system, they will find that it is actually different from any system they have ever used.
This is the power of subroutines.
When the supercomputing component is completed and the subroutine enters it and starts to connect with Er Dan, the first one to use it is not the other departments, but the department of Li Ruo Bai.
During this week, Li Ruo Bai naturally knew what Jiang Yan Hai was going to do, so at this moment they are now located in Jiangcheng's chip research institute. The research institute that Li Ruo Bai is currently responsible for is the research institute with the highest progress in independent chip research and development in China, even far exceeding other research institutes.
They are very interested in the program Li Ruo Bai written by Jiang Yan Hai, because they have many new designs, but unfortunately, these new designs, because there is currently no photolithography machine that can produce them, so these Chip Design can only stay in the drawing stage, and cannot be produced at all. Testing, even laboratory production.
Because the production performance required for its design is 3 nanometer production technology.
But with the program Jiang Yan Hai, it's 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, that means a huge amount of money! Because the research and development of new chips really requires a huge amount of funds.
Therefore, other experimental aspects have not yet been informed to various research institutes, and because of the unique conditions of Li Ruo Bai, their research institute was the first to test this one named Pangu Program.
The reason why it is named Pangu is because if it really has the effect Jiang Yan Hai said, it will really be no different from Pangu Creation. The only difference is that it is used for scientific research simulation calculations.
At this moment, Jiang Yan Hai is also in this research institute. He is with Li Ruo Bai. At this moment, the computers in front of all their teams have the permission to connect to Pangu supercomputer. After they complete the connection, a forest screen appears in the program of their computers. When this appears, all the scientific researchers are stunned.
Because this... looks like a movie or something, what does this have to do with scientific research?