From a university student to a chief academician

Chapter 46 Xia Guo Supercomputer Speed
Supercomputing Center, Base 111, Laboratory No. 1!

This is where Ye Fei led the team to work.

At this time, Ye Feizheng was explaining Turing equivalence to the team members.

How to use the mathematical knowledge in Turing equivalence to derive mathematical algorithms.

Ye Feidao: "Calculate the constructiveness of partially recursive functions in Hopfield nets, and prove that partially recursive functions are equivalent to Turing machines."

"So, Hopfield nets are equivalent to Turing machines."

"Your next research is around Hopfield nets, partially recursive functions, and Turing machines."

"After these studies are made, we can then discuss other parts of the mathematical algorithm."

The team includes PhDs in computer science from prestigious schools, full professors, associate professors, teaching assistants and lecturers.

At this time, they were like students, holding a notebook to record what Ye Fei said.

I can't accept it!
In academia, there is no priority in learning, and the best is the first!
Capability is the only criterion for determining status.

Ye Fei is better than them in terms of mathematical calculations, so they have to obediently listen to Ye Fei.

At twelve noon, everyone left the laboratory and went to the cafeteria to eat.

Walking on the road, many people greeted Ye Fei.

It has been two months since Ye Fei came to the Supercomputing Center, and his ability has been recognized by everyone.

"Dean Guan!" Ye Fei sat opposite Dean Guan with a plate in his hand.

As mentioned earlier, Academician Guan's title in the Supercomputing Center is Dean, so he is also called Dean Guan.

"Ye Fei, you came just in time!" Dean Guan said with a smile: "Tomorrow, a group of multinational research groups will come to our supercomputing center for inspection. When they arrive at Base 111, you have to receive them."

"Dean!" Ye Fei smiled wryly, "I've never done such a thing, why don't you find someone else!"

"I don't think I'll show up anymore, let Professor Sun receive it!" Ye Fei looked at Professor Sun who was sitting next to Dean Guan, and said with a smile: "He should have rich experience."

Professor Sun is a professor at the School of Computer Science, Central South University, mainly researching data engineering.

At the same time, he is also one of the researchers of Base 111.

In the Supercomputing Center, a large number of professors are from Zhonghu University, Central South University, China University of Science and Technology and Zhonghu Normal University.

They are both researchers at the Supercomputing Center and university professors.

Here is an explanation of the difference between a researcher and a professor.

Researchers are researchers who focus on scientific research, and professors are university teachers who focus on teaching.

Researchers only need to conduct scientific research, not teaching.

Professors need both teaching and scientific research, but they only focus on teaching and carry out scientific research.

University teachers are divided into teaching assistants, lecturers, associate professors and full professors.

Scientific researchers are divided into research interns, assistant researchers, associate researchers and research fellows.

Full professors and research fellows are equal in grade, assistant researcher and associate professor are equal in grade, and so on.

Professor Sun is a professor, both teaching and scientific research.

Professor Sun is a middle-aged man in his fifties, bald, round and bright, wearing a pair of glasses and always smiling.

When many people saw him, they felt funny and wanted to laugh.

I heard that because of this image, his students like to listen to him very much. Listening to his class is like watching a sketch.

Professor Sun waved his hands again and again, and said with a smile, "I can't!"

While talking, he touched the top of his head and said, "I've been very busy recently, and my hair has gone bald, but I don't have time to entertain these inspection groups."

The people around me all laughed, are you bald?You don't have hair yourself.

"I don't have time either!" Ye Fei said helplessly, "I'm also very busy."

"You are young and have good physical strength. It's okay to be more busy." Professor Sun said: "In terms of physical strength, I can't compare with you."

"Besides, I am a bad old man. Going to meet these foreigners will damage the image of the country."

"Look at you, you look very handsome. If you go up, it will definitely not damage the image of the country."

"Ye Fei!" Dean Guan said: "You are now the person in charge of Base 111, and one of your tasks is to receive inspection groups."

"And, when the time comes, the investigation team will definitely ask about the research of base 111. You know the most about this matter, and you still need to answer it."

Ye Fei heard what Dean Guan said, and he seemed unable to refuse. He said helplessly, "Okay, but it shouldn't take me too long."

"At most half a day!" Dean Guan said.

Ye Fei asked, "Is there anything I need to pay attention to?"

"There is no need to pay attention to anything." Dean Guan said: "Be reasonable and well-founded, neither humble nor arrogant."

"Don't divulge a word about the technical aspects."

Academician Guan said seriously: "This is the point."

Ye Fei nodded and said, "Which countries are they from? Why did you come to investigate?"

"East Japan, Korea, India, Germany, England and France, as well as some experts from universities in our country."

"The reason why I came to investigate is to find out about our country's supercomputing, and it is also for the upcoming Gordon Bell Award."

The Gordon Bell Award is the highest award in the field of high-performance computing applications, equivalent to the Nobel Prize for supercomputing.

North America, Xia Country, and Dongying Country, these three countries have the most developed supercomputers, so they also won the most Gordon Bell Awards.

Among them, Beili Country received the most awards, followed by Xia Country.

Dean Guan said: "Most of the Gordon Bell Awards are switched between North America, Xia Country and Dongying Country every year."

"So, the superpowers of these three countries are all concerned by other countries."

"Actually, not many countries care about receiving awards, but supercomputing reflects a country's scientific and technological strength and comprehensive strength."

"And many countries like to hide their clumsiness when it comes to supercomputing, especially our Xia country."

"Xia Guo has the largest number of supercomputers in the world. Each time, only one supercomputer is used to win the prize. No one knows how many supercomputers Xia has and which one is the strongest."

"The same goes for other countries!"

Ye Fei nodded and thought, "It's really old Yinbi."

Dean Guan said: "The award-winning supercomputing does not reflect the supercomputing power of a country, so there is a study group to find out the supercomputing power of each country."

"Of course, the countries will definitely not let them investigate at will, and hide their strongest strength. This time, the higher authorities will let us let them investigate here."

Ye Fei smiled and said, "It's because the higher-ups think that our strength is not strong!"

"Yes!" Dean Guan nodded: "Our supercomputer is only 1.09 million times, let alone compared with my country's fastest Sunway TaihuLight, even compared with Tianhe-[-]."

"Yeah!" Ye Fei nodded.

Sunway TaihuLight’s floating-point operations reached 12.54 billion times, and Tianhe-2.57’s floating-point operations reached [-] million times.

Of course, this is data from many years ago, and no one knows how much it is now.

However, according to external estimates, the number of floating-point operations of Sunway TaihuLight should reach about 13 trillion times, and that of Tianhe-5 should be about [-] billion times.

Professor Sun said: "If you say that Sunway TaihuLight is the fastest in the country, I don't think it will be so soon."

"No?" Ye Fei asked, "Is there any supercomputer faster than Sunway TaihuLight in our country?"

"Yes!" Professor Sun nodded: "Our country is about to build the ninth supercomputing center in Jiangcheng, Shennong Tianshu."

"It is estimated that the number of floating-point operations will reach 56.43 trillion times!"

"56.43 trillion times!" Ye Fei said in surprise, "So much faster than Sunway TaihuLight?"

The number of floating-point calculations of Sunway TaihuLight is 12.54 trillion times, and that of Shennong Tianshu is 4.5 times.

"Yes!" Professor Sun said.

Ye Fei was amazed, the development of supercomputing is changing with each passing day.

In 2010, Tianhe-[-] was the fastest in the world.

In 2015, the Sunway Taihu Light appeared, with a speed of 12.54 billion times, 4.8 times that of Tianhe-[-].

Five-year improvement of 4.8, terrifying!
The supercomputer embodies the technology of a country, and it can be seen from this that Xia country's technology has improved very fast in five years.

And now there is Shennong Tianshu, with a speed of 56.43 trillion times, which is 4.5 times that of Sunway TaihuLight.

It has increased by 4.5 times in eight years, and it is still terrifying!
Dean Guan said: "Don't be too surprised. There is still a big gap between my country's supercomputing and North America. The frontier supercomputing of North America has reached 110 billion billion times. It is the only E-class supercomputer in the world."

"So fast?" Ye Fei widened his glasses in surprise.

The Shennong Tianshu supercomputer is already very fast, but the cutting-edge supercomputer is even faster, 1.9 times that of the Shennong Tianshu, and 53.57 trillion times higher than the Shennong Tianshu.

Ye Fei clicked his tongue, this was too scary.

"Of course, don't boost the enemy's ambition and destroy your own prestige." Professor Sun said: "One day, in my Xia country, the supercomputer will be the number one in the world for many years in a row, and far ahead of the number two in the world."

These words are also the voices of Xia Guo's countless supercomputing centers, and also the voices of Xia Guo's scientists.

(End of this chapter)