Chapter 354: Supercomputing, We're Number One!

The advantage of this design is that we can add cabinets as needed to expand our computers, thereby achieving higher computing power. Simply put, following my proposal, each cabinet will contain 1024 processor chips, each with a computing power of only ten mega, making each cabinet ten G, that is...

Qin Miao looked at everyone: "That is ten billion operations per second! We only need ten computer cabinets, and the computing power will be a hundred billion per second! Of course, that's not much; if needed, we can connect a hundred cabinets, making it a trillion per second!"

Currently, domestic computers only reach a million operations per second, but Qin Miao directly mentioned a hundred billion and a trillion, leaving everyone as if hearing heavenly scriptures. Yet after hearing it, the heroic spirit in their chests rose again.

"That's right. It seems we can abandon the previous architecture and adopt a completely new one. If this could provide the nation with a hundred-billion-operations-per-second computer, it would absolutely be the world's first!"

Qin Miao nodded: "Yes, this is still using Dragon Core No. 1; later we will have Dragon Core No. 2 and No. 3, our processor's speed will keep increasing, and the speed of the supercomputer you are developing will also keep increasing; we will far outstrip other countries' mainframes!"

"A trillion operations per second—do we really need that fast?" At that moment, someone spoke up.

This wasn't doubting Qin Miao; it was just unimaginable, something we dare not even think about.

Qin Miao smiled: "Of course we need it; the more advanced the computer's performance, the faster our scientific research. For example, nuclear physicists can simulate nuclear reactions; aircraft researchers can shrink the finite element method to the size of a single rivet; weather forecasters can predict half a month ahead at once..."

In later times, superpowers no longer conduct nuclear tests—why? Early data is already sufficient; input into a computer, any model can be built, and any yield of nuclear explosion can be simulated inside the computer—what's the point of nuclear tests?

Only poor countries would play with such things.

When developing aircraft, stress analysis is required; if computing power is insufficient, we can only break the aircraft down into parts, such as the force on each beam—this is already the limit. But with a supercomputer, we can break it down to a single rivet, at which point the aircraft will have no mechanical defects! Of course, aerodynamics can also be calculated!

Weather forecasting is even more so; in later times, one can easily predict a week or more ahead—how? Of course, it's the supercomputer doing the calculation. Of course, predictions are often inaccurate, which is determined by the butterfly effect, but overall it's still very useful.

Once the East has a trillion-operations-per-second computer, its technological development will swiftly take the lead!

"That's right. When the time comes, if foreigners want to use our supercomputer, we will also impose various conditions! For example, have them hand over their programs to us for us to compute!"

When the nation needs a mainframe but doesn't have one, it can only send it abroad; once there, they won't even let you enter the machine room, making you wait outside obediently!

Later, the state bought foreign computers, but still couldn't use them!

Placed on a single floor, the foreigners held the keys; whenever we needed to compute some data, we handed it over to them to calculate—this was the condition they imposed during procurement!

Once we have such a computer, we will no longer have to endure their nonsense!

"Comrade Qin Miao, thank you for your guidance; we will follow this plan!" Kind Elder's face already showed an expectant expression.

"Well, Ha Gong Da will also fully support, striving to complete development within a year, absolutely not letting progress fall behind."

"Good!"

This matter is essentially concluded, but Engineer still hasn't left.

"Comrade Qin Miao, during this period we have also developed some chips……"

Qin Miao nodded: "Well, what kinds of chips?"

"First is the DSP chip, which is also urgently needed for various equipment; with it, our radar no longer needs a general-purpose processor, greatly boosting processing power while also reducing power consumption……"

Early radar post-processing could only use general-purpose chips; for example, the mighty AWG-9 radar on the Tomcat fighter uses the 8080 processing chip.

General-purpose processors can compute various data, but they are wasteful; for instance, to implement Doppler functionality in radar, one actually performs repeated Lorentz transforms, whereas a dedicated chip stores common instructions, greatly boosting performance.

The DSP chip is dedicated, and especially for radar, it's simply a perfect match!

Qin Miao nodded: "Good, good, this way I can better fulfill the project I promised to the Capital's leaders; anything else?"

"There's also the FPGA chip."

The DSP chip uses a Harvard architecture, with a dedicated hardware multiplier and multi-stage pipeline, completing multiplication and accumulation in a single cycle; it mainly processes digital signals requiring fast mathematical operations.

The FPGA, equipped with logic blocks, can implement customized circuits via hardware description language, and is also a very important processor.

With these, our side's computer hardware becomes even more complete!

"Good, good!"

Qin Miao could only nod; in this area he couldn't offer guidance either.

"After purchasing a large batch of our processors from Nintendo, we noticed that graphics processing is also important; we are currently researching related technology and will later launch dedicated display chips……" Engineer said, outlining the next plans.

Nintendo!

"By the way, how are Nintendo's game consoles selling?"

"It sold out explosively in the first month; now, in the US market, Nintendo consoles are hard to come by! Nintendo's earlier huge orders, outsiders wanted to see a joke, but facts proved they were slapped in the face—of course, this also relates to the games you provided; Nintendo has always hoped you could supply more game material, they're willing to pay high prices and also share profits with us……"

As for the games on the console, I of course still know many, but…… we can't give them all to Nintendo; if they become big and strong, they might develop the idea of self-researching processors, so we need to keep the good stuff to later help other manufacturers compete against Nintendo.

"As for chips, that's about it for now; by the way, some people in our company are very interested in LCD displays……"

"Then let's research it!" Qin Miao was very supportive.

Early LCDs were all TN-LCD; simply put, it's the numeric display used on calculators. In 1984, STN-LCD displays finally appeared, made by islanders; in 1985, Toshiba's first notebook equipped with an LCD display hit the market.

Of course, greater progress came in 1994 when TFT-LCD displays emerged, quickly becoming mainstream, even causing CRTs to be phased out.

Now…… Ha Gong Da has managed to produce TFT-LCD displays; in this field, no company can compare with us!