Chapter 84 Seahorse (Chapter 24)
During the discussion and exchange with IBM on the second day, IBM and Intel Company respectively presented a solution that seemed to be very feasible. But these two plans were still rejected by Chen Mengchuan.
The atmosphere at the scene reached a deadlock.
IBM Chairman Ginni Rometty began communicating with her team, and soon after, she expressed confirmation.
Ginny Rometty spoke to the Chen Mengchuan group, "During yesterday's and today's discussions and exchanges, we all showed a lot of sincerity. We can see that you really came with sincerity. IBM and There is no doubt that Intel is the world's most powerful supercomputer manufacturer and builder, but our alternative plan is rather special, and many of our engineers did not think it was an absurd and unrealistic plan when it was proposed."
"Now, our engineers think that this crazy plan may meet your expectations, but we hope you will listen to it." Ginny Rometty said sincerely.
Chen Mengchuan gave Toni a slight gesture.
"We are willing to listen to crazy ideas. Many crazy ideas are often epoch-making genius ideas. Just like Henry Goebbels and Thomas Edison invented and improved the electric light." Toni said with a smile, pushing up his glasses.
After Toni finished speaking, an IBM engineer stood up, connected the projector, and opened a video.
At the beginning of the video, the name of the proposed supercomputer is marked - "Haima"
Then there were first two scenes of the animal world, as well as the voiceover of a young man.
"In the natural ocean, sea urchins are five-radially symmetrical marine organisms. They have such a perfect structure. The hollow spines at an angle of 72° to each other are natural pipelines. The nerves extend from the core to the sensor cells on the edge of each spine in the pipeline. Each sea urchin can feel the world through the sensor cells at the end of each spine. They are the most perfect creatures in the ocean world."
"And there is a more artistic and perfect life on the land in nature, and that is the millipede millipede..."
The two footages of the animal world, which together lasted for 5 minutes, attracted everyone's attention.
"These two perfect creatures are the real core development skeleton of future supercomputers. Only their perfect combination can give birth to more powerful supercomputers. With one ultimate core, 256 huge sea urchin spines are pierced, and each sea urchin spine is covered with 768 super computing nodes like California's [Illacme plenipes]."
"196,608 supercomputing nodes, each node..." The man in the video slowly described his whimsical idea.
After 30 minutes, the video ends.
Chen Mengchuan's heart was beating violently, his whole body was shaking, and he was so excited that it was indescribable.
A voice deep in my heart keeps saying this: This is the most perfect container for the real Ah Chen!
Toni and others noticed Chen Mengchuan's mood swings and looked at him with concern.
People from IBM, Intel and Nvidia also saw Chen Mengchuan's excitement. In the previous introduction, Toni simply introduced him as a shareholder of the company, and he did not speak at all in the past two days.
"Mengchuan, are you okay?" Toni asked with concern.
"You need a glass of water, Mr. Chen." Bob Swan, CEO of Intel, unscrewed a bottle of water and handed it to Chen Mengchuan.
"Thank you..." Chen Mengchuan took the water with trembling hands and drank it all in one gulp.
After drinking the water, Chen Mengchuan burped, looked at everyone, and said, "Project Seahorse is the most perfect plan in my mind. I want to meet this person."
Toni smiled, pushed up his glasses, and said to everyone, "Mr. Chen is the largest shareholder of Tenzhi Technology company, and is also the founder of Tianzhi unlimited current transmission technology!"
After he finished speaking, people from IBM, Intel, and Nvidia became commotion. They all knew without a doubt what a terrifying behemoth Huaxia, a company with wireless streaming technology, would grow into in the future, but they never thought that the owner of this behemoth would be the inconspicuous-looking Huaxia man in front of them.
While a group of people were talking noisily, an engineer contacted the designer of the plan. Without anyone noticing, Gu Xiaoxiao's face felt dazed and confused.
Not long after, a man with a Chinese face appeared at the door.
An engineer from IBM introduced to everyone, "This is the designer of Haima, Kevin·Zhou."
The man smiled and looked around at everyone, and finally his eyes fell on Gu Xiaoxiao, and he slowly said, "Xiaoxiao, long time no see..."
Chen Mengchuan and the others were stunned, a little surprised.
"My name is Zhou Kai, and my English name is Kevin. I'm glad to meet you, and I'm glad that you recognized 'Haima'." Zhou Kai thanked everyone.
Then the IBM engineer said a few words to Zhou Kai. Then Zhou Kai officially began to introduce the Haima Project in earnest.
In his vision, "Haima" will have 196,608 computing nodes, distributed among 256 core connection column ends, and each connection column end will have 768 computing nodes.
Each node is a host. Each node uses a CPU+GPU heterogeneous computing system similar to Titan, consisting of two POWER11 CPUs and 12 Tesla V200 computing accelerator cards. The connection between the CPU and GPU uses the latest NVLink bus of Nvidia (NVIDIA). The CPU and GPU of each node share a total of 1024GiB of consistent memory.
The CPU and GPU can directly access this memory space with each other to share data. In addition, it will be equipped with 2400GB of non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) for burst cache or expanded memory capacity.
The connection between each node adopts multi-channel InfiniBand for three-dimensional cross-linking, and the bandwidth of each channel is 400Gb/s. The distributed storage system with a capacity of 500PB also uses InfiniBand to be closely connected to the computing nodes. Use a liquid cooling system for cooling.
The theoretical operation of Haima will reach 8000 PFLOPS, which is a floating point operation speed of 80 billion times per second! This computing speed will be more than 64 times that of China's current fastest Suxi supercomputer!
Zhou Kai As the introduction progressed, the whole person's emotions gradually reached the limit, and finally the whole person started to tremble.
Everyone from Toni to IBM and Intel was shocked by his crazy idea.
Zhou Kai's eyes passed through everyone, and finally landed on Gu Xiaoxiao, with a lot of sparkle in his eyes.
Chen Mengchuan looked at the man in front of him who was several years older than him, stood up and extended his hand to him.
"I am Chen Mengchuan. Please give me your advice in the future..."
Chapter 2.