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Chapter 54 The Expensive Large Supercomputer

"Professor Zheng."

After receiving the Hua Luogeng Mathematics Award, Xu Nuo came forward and met the National Supercomputing Center and Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer project professor Zheng that Li Yunxiao mentioned.

"Xiao Xu, I already know about you."

Professor Zheng walked out of the conference room with Xu Nuo, and everyone was walking towards the cafeteria of Rabbit University of Science and Technology, because it was time for lunch.

Behind Professor Zheng, there is a young man wearing glasses.

It should be Professor Zheng's favorite student. After all, when an elderly professor like Professor Zheng comes to Rabbit University of Science and Technology to participate in lecture activities, he usually brings an assistant with him, and such assistants usually follow their best ones. students.

"Then can our team build a supercomputing center for the enterprise?"

Seeing that Professor Zheng knew his purpose, Xu Nuo asked directly.

According to the normal situation, if you want to find a team from the National Supercomputing Center to build a supercomputer for your company, it must be difficult.

But even the National Supercomputer Center actually conducts commercial operations externally.

For example, if a company's research data needs supercomputers for calculation and analysis, then as long as they are willing to pay, they can use the large supercomputers of the National Supercomputing Center.

There are currently eight national supercomputing centers in China, and the closest to Yuzhou is the Tianfu Supercomputing Center, which was completed a few years ago.

"If your company wants to engage in supercomputing, you probably don't need the scale of a national supercomputing center. After all, the cost is too high. So entry-level, or slightly better supercomputing, as long as the chip can be guaranteed Under the premise, our team can build it for you.”

Professor Zheng told Xu Nuo the general situation.

"Then what if I want to build a large-scale supercomputing center like Sunway TaihuLight?"

Xu Nuo asked again.

"A large supercomputer of this scale?"

When Professor Zheng heard it, he was a little surprised: "The cost is very high."

"Our company is relatively adequate in terms of cost budget."

Xu Nuo was full of confidence.

After selling 4 sets of AI systems to the military and the space agency, Xu Nuo earned 34 billion, excluding the budget of 5 million for the filming of "Transformers" and 2.5 million for the construction of Nanshan villas. The first stage of the company's expansion and operation With a cost of 3 million yuan, Xu Nuo still has 23.5 billion available funds.

With such a large amount of money, even the largest supercomputing center can build another one. Unless it is the research and development of Fuyue supercomputing center that can surpass the small days and compete for the world's first supercomputing center, the research and construction cost may not be this 23.5 One hundred million can be won.

To know.

At the beginning, the research and construction cost of Sunway TaihuLight was about 17 billion. When this supercomputer was developed, it won the world’s first supercomputer ranking, but now, Sunway TaihuLight is already the world’s number one. It's six.

"In these days, even if you have money, you may not be able to build a large-scale supercomputing center. I think you understand the reason, Xiao Xu, right?"

Professor Zheng sighed, shook his head and said.

"Uh-huh."

Xu Nuo nodded.

Rabbit's Tianhe-[-] supercomputer was greatly affected because of the chip limitation.

Later, Sunway TaihuLight adopted its own instruction set and Shenwei processor with completely independent intellectual property rights——Shenwei 26010.

If Xu Nuo asked Professor Zheng and his team to build a large-scale supercomputer for themselves, it would definitely use the Shenwei 26010 processor.

"Professor Zheng, judging from the current situation, what kind of supercomputer can I build?"

Xu Nuo asked quickly.

"Sunway TaihuLight is equipped with 40960 pieces of Shenwei 26010 high-performance processors. I have asked for you. If you want to build a supercomputer, Shenwei Technology can provide about 15000 pieces of Shenwei 26010. The total budget for the completion of the supercomputer is about 4 million yuan."

Professor Zheng told Xu Nuo the general situation.

[-] million, this is the highest specification supercomputer that Xu Nuo can let Professor Zheng and his team build for themselves.

After all, the current situation of the international chip industry is very complicated, and it is not that you can build better supercomputers if you have money.

"Row."

Xu Nuo immediately nodded and said, "Professor Zheng, follow this scale."

"Have you selected the location for completion? The supercomputing center still has high requirements for heat dissipation."

If a new company like Xu Nuo's real media technology company needs a supercomputer, Professor Zheng is naturally willing to help.

After all, their AI technology is also a very important cutting-edge technology for the development of rabbits in China.

"Of course it is in Yuzhou, and I have already selected Nanshan Lake, which is only more than one kilometer away from the Dajiang River. It has lakeside, riverside and other conditions that are conducive to heat dissipation."

Xu Nuo replied.

Because supercomputers have extremely high requirements for heat dissipation, supercomputing centers are usually built by the sea, lake or river.

For example, the Tianfu Supercomputing Center built in Shu City is located only two kilometers away from Xinglong Lake.

The location Xu Nuo chose to build the smart villa has two favorable conditions: the lakeside and the riverside.

Next to the smart villa, Xu Nuo wants to dig an artificial Nanshan Lake. Although the area will not be particularly large, it doesn’t matter. There are two big rivers in Yuzhou just over one kilometer away from the smart villa in Nanshan.

Such a natural environment, coupled with the relatively mature heat dissipation technology of supercomputing centers today, can fully solve the temperature problem of supercomputing, basically there is no problem.

Then there is the floor area of ​​the smart villa, which is enough to complete this supercomputer.

The Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer in Xicheng consists of 40 computing cabinets and 8 network cabinets. Each computing cabinet is slightly larger than a household double-door refrigerator.

Inside the cabinet, 4 supernodes composed of 32 computing plug-ins are distributed among them, each plug-in is composed of 4 computing node boards, and one computing node board contains 2 "Shenwei 26010" high-performance processors, that is, It is said that there are 1024 processors in one cabinet.

The supercomputer that Xu Nuo wants to build has about 15000 processors, so it basically consists of a dozen computing cabinets and several network cabinets.

From this point of view, the required space of Nanshan Smart Villa can be fully satisfied.

When Xu Nuo asked Guan Ju to design the Nanshan smart villa, he designed the basement floor of the villa next to Nanshan Lake as a place to install the cabinets, and the area was sufficient.

"It seems that Xiao Xu has done a lot of homework."

Professor Zheng looked at the young man in front of him and admired him very much.

"I just did my homework, and I have to trouble Professor Zheng and your team for the super calculation."

Xu Nuo said modestly.

The two came to the third floor of the cafeteria, where Rabbit University of Science and Technology prepared lunch for the professors and experts who participated in this event.

"Let's sit together, and I'll talk to you about supercomputing in detail when we're having dinner."

Professor Zheng asked Xu Nuo to sit with him for lunch.

"Okay."

(End of this chapter)