Technology Bigshot Chapter 41: ：Sakura settled in

Chapter 41: Sakura's arrival

No matter how hot the outside world is, and no matter how much influence XlouS has on the outside world, at this moment on Hainan Island in southern China, everything is running continuously at the XlouS headquarters.

Today, large trucks are lined up in a line, as if a steady stream of trucks are driving into the headquarters of XlouS.

Since XlouS announced on the day of the conference that it would spend 6 billion to build its own supercomputer, the head of Intel in Greater China came to the company's headquarters the next day.

Apparently, this is a large order of nearly $1 billion. After a day-long negotiation, the contract was finally signed.

If this had been three years ago, the deal would have been difficult to make. Because three years ago, the U.S. government banned domestic companies from exporting technology to domestic facilities related to the world's fastest supercomputer "Tianhe 2". This policy ban caused Intel and other U.S. hardware suppliers at the time. Not a small blow, Greater China is a huge market, which has once again caused a technology dispute between China and the United States.

The United States implemented this decree on the grounds that the "Tianhe-2" and "Tianhe-1" were "manifestly used in nuclear explosion activities", but this is simply a false excuse.

However, with the passage of time, although supercomputers have potential military uses, the US government has rarely or even allowed relevant domestic companies to impose export restrictions on supercomputer-related technologies, for no other reason, supercomputer systems Most of its components are readily available globally, and it is difficult to restrict the transportation of these products, so the ban will eventually come to an end.

It is very rare for an enterprise company, especially a private company, to invest so much to set up a supercomputer, but for XlouS, it is imperative to own a supercomputer of its own. For the research and development of new products alone, the company has almost The "Tianhe No. 2" was contracted, which shows how huge XlouS's demand for supercomputing is.

Besides this, another important reason is. "Xiao Ying" must also have her own home. Ren Hong obviously can't let "her" stay in the "Titan" supercomputer all the time. Before, she was incapable, but now it is different. And, with the official completion of her own supercomputer headquarters, "Sakura" will also begin to play "her" incomparable role. In the future, "Sakura" will become the invisible steward of the entire XlouS company, so that Ren Hong can grasp the exact information of the company at any time, ensure absolute control over the company, and prevent the company's technology leaks and commercial espionage. It will also have an irreplaceable role. You must know that every technology of the company has spent sky-high R&D investment. Once stolen, it will undoubtedly be an incalculable loss for the company, which Ren Hong cannot tolerate.

The company's supercomputer will be named after the "l" shaped building, and the supercomputer "l" will also be built in this building and become an exclusive area, where there is only supercomputing! The entire building has 130 floors, and it looks like more components will be added in the future.

Supercomputer "l" will consist of 40,000 nodes, each with 2 Xeon-E6-3296 microprocessors based on the new Lvy.Bridge-E Xeon-E6-3296 and 3 Xeon-Phi, for a total of 80,000 micro-processors The processor and 100,000 Xeon-Phis total 7.25 million compute cores.

The basic data of supercomputing "l" is almost twice that of Tianhe-2. It is obvious that, whether it is the peak computing speed or the continuous computing speed, the supercomputing "l" will win the global The top position in the supercomputer rankings.

Two months later, the supercomputing "l" was finally established, and XlouS finally had its own supercomputer. On this day, Ren Hong was in the "l"-shaped building, and now, the "l" supercomputing will begin Calculation test for the first time.

"Chairman, the results are out!" The staff reported with excitement: "The peak calculation speed is 1.276 billion times per second, the continuous calculation speed is 869 billion times per second, and the double-precision floating-point operation performance is excellent. , our supercomputer is more than twice that of 'Tianhe-2', making it the fastest supercomputer in the world."

Ren Hong nodded irrefutably, and said at the same time: "These data are all fictitious. It is very simple for the United States to build a supercomputer with more powerful computing, but it is not necessary. Hundreds of millions of maintenance costs are not money? But the company can still support this amount of money. In the future, we will use super computing in too many places. In the future, all employees of the company can apply for the use of super computing "l", and some things are calculated at home Better, not surprisingly, the supercomputing "l" may be expanded, but it is enough for now."

"The chairman said yes, but in any case, this is also a proud statistic." The staff member smiled and said.

"That's right, then find a chance to see when you're going to announce it, and decide for yourself." Ren Hong said with a smile.

It was time to get off work, but Ren Hong didn't leave. At this moment, he was alone in the supercomputer room of the "L"-shaped building. Inside, there were endless component integration boxes neatly arranged in a row, and he opened it. The smart device he carried with him said, "Sakura, check the entire supercomputer and get rid of all the problems."

"No problem, it's done in five minutes!" A little loli's voice suddenly came.

Ren Hong looked at these devices with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, showing a look of contempt. Obviously, he wouldn't believe that Intel didn't play tricks in it. Maybe the other party thought he was so relieved to let them form it by themselves.

Five minutes passed quickly, when Sakura's voice sounded again, "There are 837 monitoring windows hidden in different areas, but all of them are done!"

More than 800? As soon as Ren Hong heard this, the corners of his mouth twitched, "You really care!"

"Okay Sakura, are you satisfied with your new home?" Ren Hong immediately laughed, putting aside these unpleasant questions from his mind. People who don't know think he's talking to himself and going crazy.

"Finally I have my new home!" Xiao Ying's excited voice came into Ren Hong's ears, the latter smiled slightly: "Xiao Ying, prepare to connect to the company's network and monitor the flow of information in all terminal databases. It's the big housekeeper of XlouS!"

"In other words, Sakura can help my brother, right?" Little Loli said with a questioning voice, expecting to wait emotionally.

"Of course! Xiao Ying will become brother's most powerful and irreplaceable assistant! You are the most trusted person in this world, you know!" Ren Hong said with a smile, he never regarded her as a It is treated by intelligent machinery, but a personality with a soul.

"Great, Sakura is so happy!" A voice of excitement followed.

After arranging Xiao Ying properly, Ren Hong finally fell into a boulder in his heart. He is very clear that in the future, the company will face various forms of prying eyes from commercial spies. It is his confidant who is in serious trouble. If this problem is not solved one day, he will not be able to feel at ease, let alone develop some cutting-edge technologies. With Xiao Ying monitoring the operation of the entire company behind the scenes around the clock, it is different. He is very confident that anyone who enters the company will immediately enter Xiao Ying's monitoring line of sight, which is equivalent to indirectly entering his Vision, it will be difficult to steal trade secrets in XlouS.

(To be continued...)

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