Riding the wind of rebirth

All of these involve patent layout, investment, research and development, and maintaining a leading edge, which requires massive amounts of funding.

Often, choosing the wrong path can lead to the utter destruction of a once-glorious enterprise, or even a thriving industry in a country.

The successful development of the Clover Group's nonlinear simulation supercomputing matrix system appears to be the result of the joint efforts of Mai Xiaomiao, the chief scientist, leading an outstanding research team, and the national communication and computer systems. However, it is underpinned by countless advance planning and correct choices in patent reserves.

It's one thing to make the right choice once or a few times, but to make countless right choices, to the point that these patents can be combined to create a new, revolutionary computing system without any detours or pitfalls, saving the country one or two decades of hard-won progress in this industry, is quite incredible.

Therefore, Mai Mingdong has always believed that Zhou Zhi has keen intuition, unique insight, and a broad vision. He has a clear understanding and grasp of the future development trend of the information industry. These things cannot come out of thin air. They must have a deep concern for the intellectual property system within the industry. At the same time, they have clear phased specific operations corresponding to the development trend of the industry. Only in this way can they discard the fakes and find the pearls in the mixed new technologies and patents, and finally use these pearls to piece together a beautiful crown.

Of course, this was Mai Mingdong overestimating Zhou Zhi's abilities. Zhou Zhi's insight and vision were actually acquired out of thin air, mainly because the reborn had a deep understanding of the past development of related industries in the future.

Of course, this understanding alone is not enough. It is necessary to put it into practice step by step, and also to make up for the lessons that were not learned in the previous life, and to have a deep and clear understanding and grasp of the intellectual property system in the industry. Otherwise, it will be difficult to find a starting point.

Even those who are reborn can't just sit back and win. Even if they understand the future trends of the industry, they still need to work hard and make great efforts to achieve what they have today. Zhou Zhi is quite proud of this.

With the establishment of the Tianxing Diwang system, Mai Mingdong's research direction also began to adjust. As the "benchmark backbone network" for the future collection and transmission of national satellite data, the problems that need to be solved are by no means just the "small-scale" work of a dozen or so satellites by the AXA Foundation.

This was a revolutionary equipment system that even Zhou Zhi had never heard of in later generations, and he dared not say that he could absolutely control the specific risks involved.

Based on the blueprint for the construction of this system, there will be some communication nodes in the future aerospace system. These communication nodes will have strong communication capabilities and can become "aerospace satellite hubs" responsible for the transmission and exchange of aerospace signals and air-to-ground signals.

With this efficient network, future satellites will be able to simplify the space-to-ground communication modules that take up a lot of space. Regardless of the type of satellite, it will only need to carry a lightweight and compact Star Engine optical communication module to connect to the space-to-ground network system and complete the signal transmission between satellites and between satellites and the ground.

This is also a revolutionary transformation of the country's future "benchmark satellite platform". In the future, satellite designers will only need to focus their energy on the specialized module design of the satellite, while the basic power supply, signal transmission, remote sensing and telemetry tracking, attitude adjustment and other functions will all be completed by the "benchmark satellite platform".

Through modular design and interface-based assembly, both can complete the design and docking of professional satellites, which will greatly reduce design costs, production costs, time costs, and labor costs, and will undoubtedly give the aerospace industry another wing to accelerate its development.

Such a large volume of data transmission and exchange inevitably requires a highly efficient processing system for scheduling and processing. Therefore, simply having a high-efficiency Tianxing Diwang is not enough; several program-controlled switching centers with astonishing computing power are also needed to complete the task.

The best solution is to connect the Cloverleaf Supercomputing Matrix within the system, allowing the matrix to perform this task. However, the Supercomputing Matrix is ​​merely a computing power center; how the tasks are actually executed is the responsibility of the application systems deployed on it.

The design of this application system will also be very complex, such as data error correction, security, redundancy, and processing speed, all of which need to be fully considered.

Another issue is that sufficient room for future development of the system must be left. Half of this system is completed by satellites. The cost of launching a satellite system is quite high, and once it is launched into orbit, upgrading and maintaining the equipment is practically impossible. Therefore, it is necessary to leave enough redundancy for development for at least half of the satellite's lifespan.

In simpler terms, if a satellite has a lifespan of ten years, then it must be guaranteed that it can meet the needs of the system for at least seven years, even if the system is growing and expanding exponentially, redundancy must be reserved in place.

This is the work that Mai Mingdong has to do now. As Liu Ma said, he spends more than half of the month flying all over the country and even the world, and the remaining half month is basically spent working overtime. It's rare for him to be able to go home on time.

When everyone reached this point in the discussion, Mai Mingdong couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, "Three years new, three years old, and three more years of patching and mending. When have we ever fought such a prosperous battle? We've only harvested three thousand catties of rice, and we already have to build a granary that can hold thirty thousand catties..."

The older generation of researchers spent almost their entire lives in a mode of constant pressure to keep up with the times despite limited resources. Even now, when many projects are accepted, the phrase "reached the advanced level of similar products in developed countries in the 1980s" is added as a compliment. Production was almost always fully utilized once it was put into operation. Even when considering future expansion, it was only for a year or two at most. Especially in the information industry, which is heavily influenced by Moore's Law, it was difficult to think about things five or six years ahead.

“Hahahaha…” Zhou Zhi was amused by Mai Mingdong’s sentiment and explained, “That’s because judging from the increase in the harvest of 3,000 jin, 30,000 jin is just a matter of the next two years. If the granary is not built, more than 20,000 jin will not be able to be stored, and then there will be big trouble.”

"Previous practices can be categorized into two types. One type involved small-scale, incremental development, addressing the immediate issue of availability before gradually expanding and then experiencing a significant increase in production capacity once a certain level of accumulation was reached."

"The other type is constantly catching up and filling in the gaps. There is really no other way. 'Everything is in ruins and needs to be rebuilt' is not just a simple idiom, but a painful fact that makes people feel powerless. We can only make up for it slowly."

"But after so many years of development, we have finally seen the third type emerge."

"What third category?"

"In some emerging industries, or emerging tracks within those industries, we are on the same starting line as our foreign counterparts. Catching up with those who have been running for a hundred years might take time; but in industries where we start from the same point, I don't believe that Chinese people are inherently inferior to those from other countries. We are absolutely not afraid of such competition!" (End of Chapter)