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"Mr. Li, think about it carefully, how much is this a commercial project worth?"
"Hundreds of billions? No, it's far more than that. It can reach trillions, or even trillions!" Yang Qinghua said, drooling, blushing, but Li Linfei couldn't laugh or cry.
In other words, Li Linfei knows what Yang Qinghua said, and the system explained it to him on the way here, and he is also very aware of the value of the cloud computing base.
However, speak well, there is no need to be so excited, if you change to someone with a bad temper, you will have already slapped you.
Li Linfei said: "Professor Yang, please calm down first."
"I'm very calm now, Mr. Li, if you think carefully about the cloud computing market, with your ingenuity, you will understand."
"Of course, if I don't understand, I won't sit here and talk to Professor Yang." Li Linfei nodded.
"The focus of the country's current construction has not yet shifted to this aspect, so I say from the bottom of my heart, this is an opportunity for future technology to dominate the future Internet, Mr. Li, you must firmly grasp it!"
This Yang Qinghua is here again.
To be honest, after chatting with him for a long time, Li Linfei could feel a very serious problem.
That is, Yang Qingtao is very good at fooling people. Looking at Su Yang and Yu Zhi, both of them were said to have bright eyes and heartbeats.
For a person like him, if he doesn't engage in pyramid schemes, he is simply wasting his life.
Li Linfei said: "Let's not talk about digressions, Professor Yang, let me tell you this, I don't want to build HPC clusters."
"This..." Hearing Li Linfei's words, Yang Qinghua was stunned.
Didn't you agree? Why did you suddenly change your mind? That's not how the script was written.
"Mr. Li, didn't we have a good chat just now, what are you doing..." Yang Qinghua was in a hurry, blushing and wanting to say something.
Li Linfei raised his hand to stop him, and said, "Professor Yang, don't worry, just listen to me."
"Speak, Mr. Li." Yang Qinghua took a breath.
Li Linfei said: "What I mean is that there is no need to build an HPC cluster. If we want to do it, we can build a better one and directly build...a supercomputer!"
Yang Qinghua: "Super calculation!"
Yang Qinghua showed a look of astonishment, and Zhang Han was also stunned for a moment.
"That's right, the core is supercomputing, not a high-performance computer cluster."
Hearing Li Linfei's affirmative words, Yang Qingtao felt a little short-circuited in his brain, and his eyes flickered violently.
"Mr. Li, 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.
Chapter 788 Super Calculation Is King
The difference between supercomputing and cloud computing is equivalent to the fact that the HPC cluster is a BMW X1, while the supercomputing is a Ferrari 488.
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.
Li Linfei said: "Professor Yang, I'm not joking with you. The cloud computing base of Future Technology 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?So supercomputing is king.
Seeing Li Linfei's seriousness, Yang Qinghua took a breath, and quickly said: "I have participated in the construction of top-level supercomputing projects, 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."
Li Linfei waited so long for his words, a smile appeared on his lips, and Li Linfei said, "Professor Yang, do you estimate how much is the budget for building a supercomputer?"
Yang Qinghua said: "The key depends on what performance supercomputer you want, Mr. Li. If it is a supercomputer with a continuous minimum speed of 10000Tflops, it will probably have hundreds of thousands of core processors. Well, one will cost at least a billion or so. Not counting land use 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 5000 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.
Li Linfei: "What if we want to build a supercomputer with more than [-] Tflops?"
"More than [-] Tflops?"
Yang Qinghua was startled. "no?"
Yang Qinghua said with a smile: "Mr. Li, you should understand floating-point calculations. A supercomputer with a continuous speed of 10000Tflops can perform 1 trillion calculations per second."
"That's right." Li Linfei nodded.
Yang Qingtao continued: "However, the supercomputers of Shenwei and Tianhe, which are currently ranked first and second in the world, are developed by our country. The number of operations per second of Shenwei is 12.5 trillion times per second. There is no need..."
"That's all?" Li Linfei said.
Everyone: "..."
Li Linfei said in a deep voice: "The supercomputing to be built in the future technology, the number of calculations should not be less than one billion billion operations per second, Professor Yang, you have to think of a way."
Yang Qinghua gave him a strange look, and said: "There is a solution. 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.
Li Linfei'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 Qinghua, Li Linfei said: "Professor Yang, regarding the construction of the supercomputing, let's settle it for the time being. If there is no problem, you can sign the contract later. After you go back, take a good rest. Starting next year, The construction of the cloud computing base of future technology is left to you."
"Mr. Li, you really want to build a supercomputer. In fact, I think supercomputers are too expensive, and HPC clusters are more cost-effective."
Li Linfei was so straightforward, Yang Qinghua suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
"Why, don't tell me, Professor Yang, you don't want to improve the quality of your work?" Li Linfei laughed.
"No, of course I hope!" Yang Qinghua hurriedly said.
"Since that's the case, then the matter is settled like this. Mr. Su, I will leave it to you to sign the contract with Professor Yang."
"Understood Mr. Li." Chen Feng stood up and responded.