The man who turned the times

Chapter 291 Supercomputer Is True Love
Su Yang said: "Let's not talk about digressions. Professor Yang, let me tell you this. I don't want to build an HPC cluster."

"This..." Hearing Su Yang's words, Yang Qingtao was stunned.

Didn't you agree, why did you suddenly change your mind?

That's not how the script was written.

"President Su, didn't we have a good chat just now, what are you doing..." Yang Qingtao was in a hurry, blushing and wanting to say something.

Su Yang raised his hand to stop him, and said, "Professor Yang, don't worry, just listen to me."

"Boss Su, tell me." Yang Qingtao took a breath.

Su Yang said: "What I mean is that there is no need to build an HPC cluster. We can do better if we want to, and directly build...a supercomputer!"

Yang Qingtao:? ? ?

"Super calculation!"

Yang Qingtao showed astonishment, and Wang Han was also stunned for a moment.

"That's right, the core is supercomputing, not a high-performance computer cluster."

Hearing Su Yang's affirmative words, Yang Qingtao felt a little short-circuited in his brain, and his eyes flickered violently.

"President Su, are you kidding me? Supercomputing... Supercomputing is not an ordinary thing. It costs more than twice as much to set up as an HPC cluster."

In other words, the most cost-effective way to build a cloud computing base is to use an HPC cluster.

And the supercomputer... The difference between the two is equivalent to the BMW X1 for the HPC cluster, and the Ferrari 488 for the supercomputer.

Although such a comparison is somewhat wrong, it is enough to show that the cost difference between the two is huge.

Of course, if the cloud computing base is centered on supercomputing, the performance will undoubtedly be better than that of the HPC cluster.

Su Yang said: "Professor Yang, I'm not joking with you. Yuanyang's cloud computing base does not use HPC clusters as its core, but supercomputers as its core."

HPC clusters are just an egg, what I want is supercomputing, supercomputing!

Where does a quantum computer come from without supercomputing?
Seeing that Su Yang was so solemn, Yang Qingtao took a breath, and quickly said: "I have participated in the construction of top-level supercomputers, and I have some experience and experience. As long as the money is in place and the manpower is sufficient, building a supercomputer is not a problem."

Su Yang waited for his words.

With a smile on his lips, Su Yang said: "Professor Yang, how much do you estimate to build a supercomputer?"

Yang Qingtao said: "The key depends on what performance supercomputer you want, Mr. Su. If it is a supercomputer with a continuous speed of 1000Tflops, it will probably have hundreds of thousands of core processors. Well, one will cost at least one billion, which is not counted. land and other buildings.”

"In addition, if a supercomputer of this scale is used to support the operation of a cloud computing base, the annual electricity bill will be at least 3000 million yuan."

Flops is the number of floating-point operations, and 1T is equal to 10 to the 12th power, which is one trillion.

1000Tflops means 1 quadrillion calculations per second.

Su Yang: "What if we want to build a 10000Tflops supercomputer?"

"10000Tflops?" Yang Qingtao was startled.

"no?"

Yang Qingtao smiled and said, "Boss Su, you should be familiar with floating-point calculations. A supercomputer with a continuous speed of 10000Tflops can perform 1 trillion calculations per second."

"That's right." Su Yang nodded.

Yang Qingtao continued: "However, currently the world's number one supercomputer, the 'Titan' supercomputer developed by IBM Corporation of the United States, only performs 7500 trillion calculations."

"That's all?" Su Yang frowned suddenly.

When he first got the Quantum Supremacy integrated card, he still thought it was not too difficult to gather three 1 billion supercomputers.

But looking at it now, there is no such fast supercomputing in this world at all.

The fastest one is only 7500 trillion times. Compared with the previous life, it is four or five years behind.

Su Yang vaguely remembered that the Tianhe-3 in China before the crossing had a peak computing power of 10 billion billion times, and there was an even more powerful supercomputer that broke [-] billion billion times.

And the fastest supercomputer in this world is only 0.75 trillion operations per second.

This is really... too beautiful, right?

Yang Qingtao said: "This is the case at present, but it is changing every year. Two years ago, the peak value of supercomputing just exceeded 1 trillion times, but this year it reached 7500 trillion times. Maybe it will break through 1 trillion times next year. Billions of times."

Su Yang said in a deep voice: "The supercomputer that Yuanyang wants to build must not be less than 1 billion operations per second. Professor Yang, you have to think of a way."

Yang Qingtao gave him a strange look, and said: "There are ways. If you don't consider the overall performance, but only look at the computing speed, you can increase the number of core processors and expand the operating memory."

"But Mr. Su, this will not only increase the expenses, there will be tens of billions, and...even the annual electricity bill will be an astronomical figure. One billion less a year, I'm afraid... ..."

The reason why supercomputing is supercomputing is that in addition to its powerful computing power, it also consumes a lot of energy, which is not something ordinary people can afford.

Of course, if the CPU and other important power-consuming cores are optimized, the energy consumption will be greatly reduced.

Perhaps in the next few decades, people can see that a computer with a power of a few hundred watts can make the calculation speed reach 1 billion operations per second, or even faster.

But now, the technology is not up to standard, it is just a luxury.

Su Yang's eyes moved, and he said, "As long as it can be built, since it is going to be done, we will do our best. Money is not a problem."

Glancing at Yang Qingtao, Su Yang said: "Professor Yang, regarding the construction of the supercomputer, we have decided for the time being. If there is no problem, you can sign the contract later. After you go back, take a good rest, starting from next year." , the construction of Yuanyang's cloud computing base will be left to you."

"President Su, you really want to build a supercomputer. In fact, I think supercomputers are too expensive, and HPC clusters are more cost-effective." Su Yang was so straightforward that Yang Qingtao suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

"Why, Professor Yang, don't you want to improve the quality of your work?" Su Yang laughed.

"No, of course I hope!" Yang Qingtao hurriedly said.

"Since that's the case, let's settle the matter like this. Mr. Chen, I will leave it to you to sign the contract with Professor Yang."

"Understood President Su." Chen Feng stood up and responded.

After the meeting, Yang Qingtao also signed a contract with Yuanyang, and became the chief engineer in charge of the construction of the cloud computing base of Yuanyang Technology Development Company, a subsidiary of Yuanyang Group.

The annual salary is 200 million yuan, plus a certain amount of housing subsidies.

The treatment equivalent to the academician level is placed on Yang Qingtao, and Yuanyang's side is considered to have given enough sincerity.

The moment he walked out of the building, Yang Qingtao suddenly felt that the world had changed.

He held his head high, full of energy.

"Yuanyang Group... I didn't expect that his courage is stronger than I imagined!" Yang Qingtao said with emotion.

Wang Han said from the side: "Teacher, Yuanyang really wants you to build a supercomputer for them?"

"Can there be fakes? It's clearly written in black and white. I can't break the contract, and they can't break the contract, otherwise neither party can get along."

"Then I would like to congratulate you in advance, teacher. You said that the construction of a cloud computing base is the hard work of the rest of your life, and now it is finally coming true."

"If there are no accidents, it should be fine." Yang Qingtao smiled on his lips, and said again: "However, in this way, I will not be able to teach you from Yanda next semester. I am at school. Be conscious."

"I will not be a lazy teacher."

"Yuanyang is a good company, and the boss is a courageous young man. If you don't want to work in a state unit in the future, Yuanyang will be your best choice."

Wang Han nodded, but sighed: "Well, speaking of it, Junior Su Yang is so good. I really can't compare him to him."

To be honest, after listening to that meeting, Wang Han was a little bit shocked.

Regardless of vision, thinking or conversation, he thought he couldn't compare with Su Yang.

Back then, he was also the second only to the number one scholar in science in Jianghai City...

Yang Qingtao comforted: "Don't think too much, he is not someone you can compare to, let alone you, even I am going to work for him now, and I have to be willing to thank him. This is a very powerful person."

As he said that, Yang Tao couldn't help but think of the stupid things he said when he first met Su Yang.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt my old face was flushed, I was embarrassed, and I had the urge to jump off a building.

(End of this chapter)