The news that Lianchuang Technology intends to engage in CPU and is also interested in supercomputer research and development instantly caused an uproar.

Countless scientific research institutions were excited, and among them, the most exciting one was 56.

As a supercomputer research institution directly under the military, the situation facing 56 Institute is actually very embarrassing. On the one hand, in 1999, they bought the technical license of the alpha processor, and could develop the processors they needed based on the alpha architecture; but on the other hand, when the entire army did not have much money, the cost of being able to allocate to the 56 Institute for supercomputer research and development is actually pitiful.

How pitiful is it? The financial allocation of 56 institutions last year was less than 20 million. This 20 million not only includes the R&D expenses of Shenwei Supercomputers, but also includes the entire research institute’s people eating horses, business trip subsidies, and vehicle maintenance... In the end, the funds that can be truly used for the R&D of Shenwei Supercomputers are less than 5 million.

It's a pity to have a supercomputer for 5 million? The unit is still rmb...

The Institute of Computer Science and Technology of the National University of Defense Technology is still hesitating, the Chinese Academy of Sciences is still arguing, and the Magic City Supercomputing Center is still considering, and the National Parallel Computer Engineering Technology Center is dismissing, Huang Yongqin, director of the Institute 56, brought people to the door.

Well, what I brought was Academician Chen Zuoning, who was just rated as an academician of the Academy of Engineering last year.

When Huang Yongqin saw Lin Zheng, the first thing he said was: "Mr. Lin, are you really going to be the Chinese's own central processor?"

"yes……"

"Why don't you come to us 56?"

"Ah?" Looking at Huang Yongqin who was coming to provoke a criminal tone, Lin Zheng carefully touched his head, always feeling that something was wrong in this plot: "This... Loongson Research Team..."

"Can Loongson's MiPS architecture compare with the pha architecture?" Huang Yongqin, who came to ask the question, was waiting for his eyes, and looked like "Why did you give us the 5 yuan you gave us to your wife?": "The alpha architecture is much better than x86's performance, don't you not know?"

At the beginning of the alpha architecture, Lin Zheng really knew how powerful the alpha is. In Lin Zheng's opinion, this guy is simply a bug-level existence: at the beginning of the design, alpha had already taken into account the needs in 25 years and reserved a 64-core multi-core architecture. In other words, if necessary, processors using the alpha architecture can completely replace inter's xeonphi processor, which is far ahead of the MiPS architecture.

"I know, I know." Lin Zheng asked carefully: "But... does this have anything to do with our 56?"

"Of course it's relevant," Academician Chen Zuoning interjected: "Does Mr. Lin know about Shenwei-i supercomputer?"

"Shenwei-i?" Lin Zheng nodded: "I have an impression, why? It was produced by our 56?"

Lin Zheng really has some impression of the Shenwei-i supercomputer. It seems to be successfully developed in 1999, but the official has a very low-key understanding of the information processing of this supercomputer. Lin Zheng is really not clear about the specific performance.

"Of course," Academician Chen is quite proud: "That was successfully developed by our Institute of 56 in 1999, with the highest floating-point calculation speed of 384 billion times per second."

Lin Zheng was surprised. He didn't know much about the performance of Shenwei-i, but he still knew the basic performance of several supercomputers that were released around 1999. In terms of the floating-point computing speed that everyone is most familiar with, the fastest floating-point computing speed of the Dawn-2000ii type supercomputer in 1999 was 111.7 billion times per second, the floating-point computing speed of the Dawn-3000 in 2000 was 403.2 billion times per second, and the supercomputer in 56 was able to take out 384 billion times per second in 1999?

I couldn't help asking, "Is this supercomputer the alpha processor?"

"That's right, and our 56th Institute has acquired the complete intellectual property rights of alpha21164. Mr. Lin, you may not know that the architecture of the alpha processor is very advanced, taking into account the future computing needs, and a CPU can be expanded to at most..."

"It can be expanded to 64 cores, and a multi-core architecture is reserved. I know this," Lin Zheng interrupted Academician Chen and turned to look at Huang Yongqin and said, "Director Huang, our Institute 56 is a supercomputer R&D institution affiliated to the General Staff. You and us jointly develop CPUs. This... is related to confidentiality..."

"Of course we came to you with the permission of the General Staff," he looked at Lin Zheng with an innocent little look of "You are stupid, you didn't even expect such a simple truth?": "Didn't your Lianchuang Technology and the military have always had a cooperative relationship? The leader of the General Staff said that you are trustworthy."

It’s still direct to joining the army. Lin Zheng sighed in his heart: “So. 56 Institute is a central processor that is planning to develop an alpha architecture with us. Is that what does that mean?”

"That's right." Chen Zuoning and Huang Yongqin nodded at the same time.

Looking at the two academicians Chen Zuoning and Huang Yongqin who looked at him with anticipation, Lin Zheng frowned.

Alpha has many advantages, the biggest advantage is that the alpha processor is the fastest among all streamlined instruction set processors, and it is the only streamlined instruction set processor that has been continuously supported by Windosnt. This is incomparable to both the arm architecture and the MS architecture, and the poerpc architecture. Of course, if Alpha is promoted in the hands of the Chinese, it is not ruled out that Microsoft will exclude Alpha.

"I'm not very familiar with the central processor of the alpha architecture, but as far as I know, the alpha processor was developed for the server market at the beginning?" After thinking about it, Lin Zheng asked: "As long as it is used for servers, it cannot be cheap. To be honest, the reason why Lianchuang Technology is preparing to cooperate with the Chinese Academy of Sciences is that the price of Loongson with the MiPS architecture can be very cheap."

"Who said that the Alpha architecture central processor cannot be very cheap?" Before Huang Yongqin could speak, Academician Chen stopped doing it: "The alpha21164 sold by Dec is not cheap. According to our calculations, under the same performance, if the Alpha central processor can reach the scale of the arm, the price can be only 80% of the price of the arm processor... But can the arm be easily expanded to 64 cores?"

However, it is difficult to expand the core of arm. Not to mention expanding to 64 cores, it is a long time to expand to 16 cores. Is the reason that the company did not consider it thoroughly when doing the initial architecture design. At the beginning of the design of the alpha architecture, it imagined that this CPU would have a life cycle of at least 25 years. What about the arm architecture? The design goal is 15 years.

"Let me think about it, and I need to evaluate the 56 Institute and the alpha architecture." After thinking for a while, Lin Zheng finally made a decision: "But one thing I want to explain in advance. In the short term... at least within 5 years... the alpha processor will not enter the field of desktop personal computers. We will make this processor a dedicated processor for smartphones."

"No problem, I can answer this question now. 56 is willing to work with Lianchuang Technology to build an excellent mobile phone processor. We will fully cooperate with Lianchuang Technology's work!" Huang Yongqin agreed happily. He was able to take the initiative to find Lin Zheng, so he naturally did his homework. Knowing that after Lianchuang Technology cooperated with Loongson's research team, Loongson's target market is the central processor of smartphones.

For Institute 56, they were very satisfied with being able to sell the produced CPUs. When they heard that the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was quarrel about whether Loongson was used for desktop personal computers or mobile phones, all of the Institute 56 were straight: it would be great to sell the produced CPUs to make money and support themselves. Can you still be picky? Do you think you are inter or amd?

Are you not even good at passing?

You are not satisfied with the reimbursement of production capacity with Lianchuang Technology?

The experts from the Institute 56 can only sigh that they are subordinate institutions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is different from our poor military research institutions.

Lin Zheng nodded. The attitude of the Institute 56 made Lin Zheng very comfortable, at least much better than the Chinese Academy of Sciences: "There is another point. If you want to cooperate, the two sides will cooperate in all aspects. We not only need to cooperate in developing alpha processors, but also work together to develop supercomputers. Can you agree to this condition?"

"Cooperate to develop supercomputers?" Sure enough, when he heard Lin Zheng's request, Huang Yongqin and Chen Zuoning hesitated immediately, and they looked at each other: "This..."

"This is the premise of cooperation. If this article cannot be agreed, don't talk about cooperation," Lin Zheng interrupted the two. "Of course, as support for this project, Lianchuang Technology can now order an alpha supercomputer that uses the central processing unit that we produce ourselves."

"You want to purchase a supercomputer?" Huang Yongqin widened his eyes in surprise, looking at Lin Zheng with incredible expression: Are you wrong? That's a supercomputer! Can you please stop talking so easily? This is tens of millions of dollars, okay?

"That's right. We will book one, and the specific performance requirements will be submitted later," Lin Zheng nodded affirmatively, and looked at Huang Yongqin with surprise: "It's just purchasing a supercomputer. You don't need to be so surprised, right? There are many foreign large enterprises and large consortiums who have their own supercomputers."

It seems...this is the same? Huang Yongqin touched his head. The large foreign companies not only own their own supercomputers, but some even own their own satellites. Lianchuang Technology believes that its company needs a supercomputer and what does it have to do with it?

But at the same time, he felt particularly awkward: So far, none of the dozen supercomputers in China belong to enterprises, let alone private enterprises. Even if it is two oil barrels and two major mobile communication companies, they just rented some supercomputer computing resources. Will you, Lianchuang Technology, have your own supercomputer now?

"But, what do you want a supercomputer to do?" Academician Chen Zuoning, who came with Huang Yongqin, couldn't help but ask curiously: "As far as I know, you Lianchuang Technology now have three ibm mainframes. With these three mainframes, can you meet your computing requirements, right?"

Supercomputers are all strategic things for research, mainly used to undertake major scientific research, large-scale computing projects and data processing tasks in the fields of cutting-edge national defense technology and national economy. Lianchuang Technology purchases supercomputers? Is this necessary? If you have a mainframe, you can already meet your computing tasks?

What's more, it's three.

When saying this, Academician Chen was full of envy: There was no mainframe in the entire Jiangnan Institute. How great would it be if the Jiangnan Institute also had its own mainframe?

Lin Zheng explained with a smile: "You are right. With mainframes, we can basically meet our computing needs now. However, our group's demand for computing power is getting bigger and bigger. The three major business segments of the development of CPUs are also getting bigger and bigger. It's time to purchase supercomputers... I'm afraid that in a few years, we will have to add another supercomputer."

A supercomputer is not enough, so you have to add another one? Are you opening a computer room? Academician Chen was speechless when he heard this, but why was he so envious?

Huang Yongqin was already trembling with excitement!

He had already started yelling in his heart: One supercomputer! One supercomputer! One supercomputer!

Because of insufficient accumulation in the supercomputing field, 56 institutes have only produced one supercomputer so far, which is a shame for a supercomputing research and development institution that is interested in acquaintance with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the supercomputing field.

If a supercomputer was pre-sold at the beginning of the commercialization of the alpha processor, it would be impossible to describe it as such a great deal!

If it weren't for the fact that Institute 56 is a scientific research institution under the General Staff, Huang Yongqin would have agreed to Lin Zheng's conditions almost now, but it's not too late now. With his red eyes, Huang Yongqin gritted his teeth and asked Lin Zheng, "Mr. Lin, are you saying true?"

"Do you think I'm not going to buy the supercomputer's money?" Boss Lin asked back, his tone of heroism. (To be continued.)
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