The Red Era, the Opening University Speech

Chapter 172 Calm down, be calm, time is running out

"Or is it that the computer's computing power is not strong enough?"

"But this level of integration is already the limit of what we can achieve at present. If we want to make further breakthroughs, it will be a long road ahead."

He mused silently.

The significance of the big mushroom to Xia Country is self-evident. As long as one is a Xia Countryman, he or she hopes to make the thing as soon as possible.

However, given the current level of lithography machines, it would be difficult to significantly improve the integration of computers in a short period of time.

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After the five Type 5 computers were moved into the laboratory, Wu Youxiang and Wang Shoujue began to call together the leaders of each group to discuss the issue of usage time.

When they heard that there were computers available, and they were made in China, everyone was very happy.

But when they heard about the time requirements, each group started arguing again, and everyone felt that their research was more important.

Seeing that the argument was about to affect him, Li Mu hurriedly left the meeting room.

As he walked, he thought about a solution.

At this moment, a message alert sounded in his mind.

Ask: "The boss of the lab is simply a jerk. I just came back and he wants me to go on a business trip again!"

“Even after paying M$2500 million, he still didn’t show mercy?” Li Mu replied with a smile, but his heart was slightly moved.

However, when he thought about the fact that Ask's research direction was life genes, he estimated that the possibility was not high.

Ask:
"Not exactly. This time our mission is very simple. We just need to send a piece of data to Illinois and use their supercomputer system for verification."

"If we go quickly, we might be able to come back in two days."

"It's just that I just made an appointment with her for dinner tomorrow, but I didn't expect to be arranged to go on a business trip."

"I apologized to her, but she hasn't replied to my message yet. Li, do you have any good ideas?"

Looking at the information on the chat page, Li Mu's eyes were fixed on the word "supercomputing", so much so that he did not notice Ask's question in time.

Supercomputing, supercomputing, yes, he can definitely build a supercomputer to solve the problem of developing giant mushrooms.

The "ding~ding~" message notification sound in his mind interrupted Li Mu's thoughts.

Ask:
"Please teach me jpg."

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"You're the only one who can help me, Lee!"

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"I'll give you 288 Hellfire!"

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"That's enough, you can pick any game skin you want, but you can only choose one!"

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After reading the message, Li Mu couldn't help but smile and said, "I was just saying hello to MM. Sorry."

"Oh, I forgot to ask you if you saw her after you came back last time."

"If I had seen it, and heard you slash 2500 million dollars for it, I'd be interested."

"No, she's been busy lately and is only free tomorrow afternoon, but I have to leave in the morning." Ask replied dejectedly.

Li Mu groaned slightly and said, "Is that so~"

The questions just now made him 99% sure that she had been caught, and the people chatting with Ask now might be a group of idiots from Fobol.

"Don't be anxious. I'll teach you a trick called playing hard to get. Just leave her alone for a few days and she will remember your kindness." Li Mu replied.

Although Ask was smart, he was also quite naive in some aspects, and if possible, he did not want to destroy this simplicity.

"Okay, I'll listen to you, Li. Your methods are always useful." Ask said.

The two chatted for a while afterwards, and Li Mu intentionally or unintentionally changed the topic to supercomputing, or supercomputers.

He said: "I really want to try what it's like to play games on a supercomputer. It must be very smooth."

"Your idea of ​​using a supercomputer to play games is really good, Li." Ask said, "But the 'internet fee' will probably be frighteningly expensive."

"Especially since our institute is borrowing a national-level supercomputer this time, the price is frighteningly expensive."

“Although its performance is also very good, a petaflop sustainable supercomputer, it is definitely one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world!”

Li Mu's eyes were fixed on the words "quadrillion times", and his breathing became heavier.

They just broke through the million mark!
A trillion times is unimaginable. With the current level of semiconductor development, it will take at least another ten or twenty years.

If we can get the design data, we will have to break through the mark of tens of millions times per second!

The National Supercomputing Research Center at the University of Illinois, located in Upper Penn, Oregon, is one of the four centers first established by the National Science Foundation of America under its supercomputing center program.

The 48-cabinet Cray XE6 supercomputer system built under its "Nanshui" project will be able to perform calculations in areas such as explaining how viruses infect cells, understanding how the universe evolved after the Big Bang, and designing new materials at the atomic and complex levels.

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Li Mu returned to his dormitory at the University of Science and Technology of China. After dinner, he did not start studying physics as usual. Instead, he just read a book on crop cultivation for a while and then fell asleep on the sofa.

General Zhao was stunned by what he saw, and even reached out to touch Li Mu's forehead, almost thinking that he was sick again.

"If you feel uncomfortable, you must tell me." Even though the temperature was correct, General Zhao still had worry in his eyes.

Li Mu smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Zhao, don't worry, I'm fine. I'm just a little sleepy and want to take a nap."

"Okay, if you feel uncomfortable, you must tell me immediately." General Zhao said seriously.

Now Li Mu's studies and research are quite heavy, and he certainly can't protect him as much as before. If it's after 12 o'clock in the evening, he will ask Li Mu to go to bed quickly.

If this is not possible, then he will have to report to his superiors and change the one-day holiday per week to two days.

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Li Mu didn't say much to General Zhao and soon lay down on the bed to rest.

After getting enough rest, he estimated that it was about time, so he immediately got up and sat at the table.

At hand was a stack of manuscript paper and three bottles of ink that had been prepared long ago. He had enough supplies to support him in writing for three days and three nights.

It is unknown how long Ask will stay at the supercomputing center this time.

Even if he tried his best to keep him a little longer, the time would probably be limited.

How to make use of limited time and obtain as much information as possible? Downloading and copying at the same time is undoubtedly the best way.

Open the chat page, click on the WIFI list and minimize it. Then Li Mu continued to study Master Qian Wu's notes while waiting for movement.

Before long, the WIFI list started to refresh rapidly as if it was infected with a virus.

The names of research centers and library archives began to refresh one by one, but the signal faded very quickly. Even if Li Mu clicked to download, the maximum speed was no more than 20KB/s.

He wasted no time on this, waiting patiently for Ask to reach his destination.

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About an hour later, Ask arrived in Illinois.

As soon as he got off the plane, he sent a message to Li Mu: "Li, we are finally here. Illinois is such a beautiful land."

"Really? Can it be more beautiful than the mountains and rivers of our Xia country?" Li Mu replied with a thought in his mind. This matter was too important, and he had to find a way to let Ask stay in Illinois for a while longer.

Traveling is a good excuse.

"I admit that Xiaguo is a beautiful country, but Illinois also has its own unique charm," Ask retorted.

Seeing this message, Li Mu was furious and immediately said, "Well, if you have time after you finish your work, how about walking around there and taking some photos for me?"

"Of course, but I'm afraid my photography skills are not as good as yours." Ask hesitated but did not refuse.

It was just a few photos, he thought, and it wouldn't take much effort.

Going back for a date is important, but my friend Ask thinks it’s also important.

"Thank you in advance and wish you a pleasant journey." Li Mu smiled. While speaking, he also found the WIFI of the National Supercomputing Research Center Library of the University of Illinois in the WIFI list.

Needless to say, just click through.

Open the directory and search for the keyword "supercomputing", and a large amount of information will quickly pop up.

IBM 7030 Stretch, with a computing speed of 100 million times per second.

CDC6600, computing speed 300 million times per second.

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“It turns out that all supercomputers of all generations have records!” Li Mu almost jumped up in shock when he saw the data directory.

He hurriedly clicked on one at random and immediately saw a large amount of information summary.

This means that as long as the technical conditions are mature, he can theoretically make the most advanced computer in the future.

"Calm down, calm down, there is not much time left." Li Mu took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

Ask's stay was destined to be short, and the supercomputer data was too huge, so he had to choose a supercomputer that could be realized with Xiaguo's current technical conditions.

Thinking of this, he began to search quickly.

His eyes couldn't help but look at the supercomputing data that exceeded one trillion times per second.

But Li Mu quickly regained his composure. The trillion-times technical requirement might not be achieved even after another ten years, so it would be useless if he put it down.

He started with the tens of millions of times per second level, and after eliminating them one by one, he quickly locked onto a target - CRAY-1.
"The CRAY-76 vector machine from 1 can perform operations at a speed of million times per second. If this can be achieved, it will undoubtedly be of great benefit to the creation of giant mushrooms." Looking at the number of operations above, Li Mu's eyes lit up.

Although an improvement of 10 or 20 million times per second is not bad, it is far less convenient than directly increasing it to 100 million times per second.

Moreover, they have the implementation standards in integrated circuit technology.

As long as the distributed projection lithography machine is developed, the achievement of ultra-large-scale integrated circuits is only a matter of time.

“Let’s do it!” Li Mu quickly clicked to download.

Immediately, the chat page displayed a download progress bar, 100KB/70G.

His face darkened and he couldn't help but complain: "This is too big."

At this rate, it would take him at least nine days to download all the data.

And if Ask leaves early, all his efforts may be wasted.

"We must make Ask stay for enough time this time no matter what." Li Mu's brain was working rapidly, thinking of ways to keep Ask.

Taking landscape photos is a good idea. You can let Ask run for a few days and help him take photos of some famous attractions.

But we can’t let Ask run all the time. Maybe we can encourage him to go to the bar later?

What a good idea. Maybe if you run into two street thugs, you’ll get beaten so badly that you won’t be able to get out of bed for half a month?
Li Mu felt a little reluctant, but he could not stand firm without being ruthless. He sacrificed little Ask to build the Great Xia Kingdom. If Ask knew about this decades later...

Even if you want to kill him, you can't just scatter his ashes in Xia Country, right?
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the next day.

Li Mu got up as usual, washed up and exercised, then returned to the dormitory to pack up the notes he made last night.

Since he has decided to study supercomputers, he certainly cannot wait until the download is completed before studying it. It is still important to take notes while looking at the information.

And just in case, just in case Ask really leaves before he finishes, these notes can also provide a reference for his future research on supercomputers.

I looked at the progress bar and saw that after one night, only a little over 2G was downloaded.

After thinking for a while, Li Mu sent a message to Ask: "How is it, is everything going well?"

no reply.

Guessing that he was busy, Li Mu stopped sending messages.

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Since there was no class this morning, Li Mu went to the Semiconductor Research Institute first.

He first went to the distributed projection lithography machine development team to check the progress. When he saw him coming, a smile appeared on Huang Xinhua's face.

He asked, "You came so early today?"

"Well, let me take a look at the progress of the research." Li Mu nodded and walked to Huang Xinhua, picked up the latest experimental progress report and started reading it.

The excimer laser development team has achieved initial success, and the optical system problems of the distributed projection lithography machine have been basically solved.

The next tricky point is the objective system.

Huang Xinhua, who was standing by, looked at Li Mu's frown and shook his head slightly, saying, "Wang Ya hasn't told you the news yet?"

"That's right. You came to the institute so early today. Maybe you missed her."

"Well, what's the news?" Li Mu looked up and was stunned for a moment, but then he reacted and said, "Is the research on the D-bullet trajectory computer going to be finally tested?"

Huang Xinhua nodded and said, "Yes, thanks to those 01 computers, Professor Zhuang and his colleagues' research speed has been greatly improved."

"Everything is now ready and the final test will be carried out in the afternoon."

"Many leaders will be there, if you are free, you can come and participate."

Hearing this, Li Mu couldn't help but feel a headache.

He has classes in the afternoon.

Even though you may not understand everything you hear, you still have to listen. If you don't learn, you will never be able to master it.

Huang Xinhua saw that he looked troubled and asked, "Why, you can't come?"

"I have a plan this afternoon..." Li Mu said halfway when he suddenly remembered that he had promised Wang Ya in advance, and it would be a bit bad to go back on his word now.

After a moment's hesitation, he walked out the door and found Guan Jianmin, who was chatting with an intern researcher from the institute outside: "Do me a favor and go back to school to ask for leave."

"Huh?" When Guan Jianmin heard that he wanted to ask for leave, his head was full of question marks.

You don’t even give the experts a day off during holidays, and you actually ask for leave?

He suddenly warned, "Even if you take a leave, your time at the institute cannot be increased by even a little bit."

"What are you thinking about? I'm going to take part in the final test of the D-bullet trajectory computer this afternoon." Li Mu was speechless and said:

"By the way, go find Zhou Zhang and see if he's free to help me take notes."

If you can't attend the class, you still need to take notes.

However, Li Mu didn't have many acquaintances in HKUST, so he could only ask Zhou Zhang for help.

Although Zhu Ting seemed to be taking the same class as him, for some reason the other party didn't seem to have a good impression of him and still looked for Zhou Zhang to rely on.

(End of this chapter)