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Chapter 72 Super Calculation!

After completing the technology accumulation and verification, Li Qingsong immediately started to build a new chip factory.

Compared with previous chip factories, this one is larger. The entire industrial park, including various supporting facilities, covers an area of 10 square kilometers.

This is not only because the factory has a higher design capacity, reaching an annual output of approximately 45 million 2000-nanometer process chips of various specifications and models, but also because, compared with the previous 800-nanometer chips, the current 45-nanometer chip process is more complex, with more processes and higher environmental requirements.

From the initial purification of silicon dioxide to the final chip packaging and delivery, all the processes add up to more than 1000!

There are hundreds of factories of various types that specialize in supplying goods, energy, and assistance to this factory.

In the past, even Li Qingsong would have to go through a lot of trouble and spend several years to build such a huge production base.

But now, with the maximum number of consciousness connections skyrocketing to more than 500 million, this chip base has been fully built and all equipment installation and debugging work has been completed in just half a year.

All other auxiliary factories were also built, so it was immediately put into production.

At the same time, the other chip factories built earlier with more backward technology did not stop production, but continued to maintain full production.

The reason is simple. The 45nm process chip is the most advanced one. It is good, but it is not needed everywhere.

It's like the oil circuit control chip of an excavator. Even a millimeter-level process chip is enough to meet the requirements, so what can you do with a 45-nanometer chip?
There is no such waste.

In fact, in Li Qingsong's entire base cluster, the chips with the highest usage are those with lower process and more backward technology.

In this way, chips of various processes are produced at the same time and the factories operate at the same time. With the commissioning of this latest factory, Li Qingsong's overall chip production capacity has successfully exceeded the 5 million mark, reaching an annual output of 5.2 million chips.

When the first batch of 45-nanometer chips had not yet been produced, Li Qingsong started construction of another key project.

Supercomputer!
Supercomputers use a large number of chips to perform parallel calculations, which can achieve performance far exceeding that of ordinary computers. They are indispensable key facilities in almost all fields such as industrial development and scientific research.

The AI technology that Li Qingsong is about to develop is also inseparable from it.

Li Qingsong had also built a supercomputer before. It used about 2 800-nanometer process chips and had a floating-point computing power of about billion times per second.

This computing power was sufficient before, but it is not enough now.

This time, Li Qingsong plans to build a supercomputer that uses about 13 chips and has a floating-point computing power of 400 trillion times per second!
It wasn't that Li Qingsong didn't want to build a bigger one. Rather, increasing the computing power of a supercomputer wasn't as simple as simply stacking chips.

Compared with increasing the number of chips, what is more important is its parallel computing capability, that is, how to set up a set of algorithms, use the corresponding hardware, and effectively assign computing tasks to each chip.

Making them work together is what matters.

In addition, memory bandwidth and capacity, storage system read and write speeds, data transmission and latency, etc., all restrict the computing power of supercomputers.

In the absence of breakthroughs in other technologies, sometimes adding more chips will actually reduce the computing power of the supercomputer.

Li Qingsong mobilized thousands of clones and conducted extensive optimization before finally designing this supercomputing system. At this moment, the supercomputing center has been completed, waiting for the arrival of the chips.

Within a few days, the specially designed supercomputer chip was finally manufactured.

After transporting them to the supercomputing center, Li Qingsong controlled the clones to quickly start the installation work.

Li Qingsong divided the total of approximately 13 chips into 65536 nodes. Each node has two chips, which are connected to each other using specially developed optical fibers. The memory reaches 64TB.

It is powered by a power station with an installed capacity of 1.5 kWh specially built by Li Qingsong.

This thing's power consumption is terrifying. In just one hour, it consumes 1.5 kWh of electricity, which means it consumes 1.3 million kWh of electricity per year.

The power consumption is terrifying, and the heat generation is of course also extremely terrifying.

Li Qingsong specially designed a water cooling system for this purpose and laid a large number of pipes around the supercomputing center, with a total length of thousands of kilometers and a coverage area of more than ten square kilometers.

After the installation was completed, with a command from Li Qingsong, it finally started running with a roar.

Instantly, countless calculations began to take place within each chip, generating heat as the most basic circuit units changed.

The heat generated by a single chip is very small, but when hundreds of thousands of chips are added together, the heat generated is extremely terrifying.

As a result, the cold cooling water in the cooling pipe began to heat up instantly and started to flow outward.

The ground of Luoshen is at a temperature of more than 250 degrees below zero all year round. At this moment, the heat from the supercomputing center is distributed to the ground of Luoshen through the pipes laid in it.

After being cooled, the water flows back into the supercomputing center, carrying heat out again.

By repeating this cycle, the supercomputing center can always operate at a suitable temperature.

At this moment, as the supercomputing center began to produce heat, the sensors placed nearby by Li Qingsong keenly detected that the land of Luoshen began to slowly warm up, and even some gases with low melting points began to melt and began to diffuse into interstellar space.

If you observe with an infrared telescope, you can even clearly see that the color of this area of land is darker, which is obviously different from the surrounding areas.

If there is an ecosystem on Luoshen, Li Qingsong can even say that this supercomputer alone can change the ecology of this land.

After the test was completed and confirmed that everything was as expected, Li Qingsong immediately uploaded the learning algorithm written by thousands of programmer clones into the supercomputer.

Afterwards, data generated by almost every chip in every factory, every power plant, every scientific research base, planting base and even livestock base, as well as every truck, train, tractor, excavator, spacecraft, satellite, and so on, began to converge on this supercomputer.

This huge amount of data is the "food" for this set of learning algorithms.

Fed by these high-quality data, this set of learning algorithms continuously iterates and optimizes itself, and matures rapidly.

(End of this chapter)