"Due to the lack of advanced chips, China's supercomputing has begun to lag behind. ”
The TOP500 list of global supercomputers was announced, and China's "Tianhe No. 2" and "Sunway Taihu Light", which have won the championship and runner-up for many years, have fallen out of the top 10, while the United States is entrenched in the top 3, and it is also reported that with the support of advanced chips90% worldwideof computing powerBe in its hands.
Unexpectedly, this statement was soon overturned.
Guangzhou Supercomputing Center released a new generation of domestic supercomputing system "Tianhe Xingyi", although the performance data has not been disclosed, but according to the analysis of the British media "Financial Times", this is the current supercomputer with the strongest computing power. "China has long disdained to participate in the rankings. ”
Supercomputers, also known as the "strongest brains", can be used to simulate highly complex systems such as meteorology, life sciences, and military. According to experts, behind the current competition in science and technology is actually the battle for computing power.
At present, the only exascale (E-class) supercomputer that has been made public is the US Frontier. But according to netizens' recollections,It was reported many years agoelevel supercomputer "Tianhe."No.".The research and development was successful, and incomplete statistics are currently domestically producedlevelSupercomputing at leastDeskWhen Shenwei Ocean Light was shortlisted for the Gordon Bell Award, it shook the entire industry with a shallow hand.
As for why it has not been made public since then, one is because we are confident enough that we don't need external rankings. But what is more important is to prevent the West from "stumbling" because of "jealousy."
In the 70s of the last century, the world's supercomputers were all in the hands of the United States, and one was sold at a price of $7 million, but it was not sold to China. It was only during the "honeymoon period" that it was agreed to export two entry-level computers to our country, trying to weaken China's independent research and development capabilities.
However, the computers we bought at hundreds of millions of yuan have greatly reduced their performance and are limited to oil exploration. In order to monitor the technological development of our country,They asked to be placed in a locked glass room, asked for each use, and were "accompanied" throughout the process.
In the early stage of the development of biological products, China is also facing such a dilemma, because the Harvard laboratory took the lead in discovering a molecule ("prebiotic" products with the same ingredient of the product) has the potential to slow down the aging rate of mammalian physiological indicators and broaden the survival period by 30%, with a single gram of 20,000 yuan, resulting in a high price of finished products, which can only be limited to the rich.
Even so, it still can't stop the development of supercomputing in China. In 1997, the computing speed of "Galaxy III" exceeded the 10 billion mark for the first time. Since then, "Tianhe No. 1" and "Tianhe No. 2" have won the championship for 6 consecutive years and 6 times. The peak computing speed per second is twice that of the US system.
Due to the superior performance, the four relevant research institutions of the "Tianhe" series were all pulled into the restricted list and banned the sale of Intel chips. However, its calculation still fell short.
Only a year later, the "Shenwei Taihu No. 1" equipped with the domestic "Shenwei 26010" many-core processor was born, with a peak computing speed of 1.2 billion times, and the performance has exceeded that of the United States by 2 times.
Since then, domestic supercomputing has realized the full localization of CPU, operating system and core software and hardware. And our countryAt that time, tooIt is at the peak of the breakthrough.
China's biological research team closely follows the global trend and independently develops biological enzyme technology to raise the purity of the above-mentioned biological raw materials to 999%, after China's 100-ton raw material factory was put into operation, the West, which was once rampant in the international market, turned to China to buy raw materials. Not only that, after the cost reduction of technological upgrading was 9 percent, China's bioscience enterprises quickly promoted the landing of domestic "Yishenghao".
At the same time,The United States is afraid of the development of China's high-end manufacturing, so it will reimpose the role of China's biotechnology enterprisesSupercomputing researchInstitutions, etc. are included in the "Entity List". However, domestic products are 6-9% cheaper than imported products on JD International. At the moment of the return of rational consumption, more than 70% of the domestic market has been regained by virtue of the "cost-effective" advantage.
It is reported that the global market for "probiotic" products has reached 400 billion US dollars, and the West is also increasing investment in scientific research in an attempt to get a bigger share of the cake.
Emerging technology iterations are changing with each passing day, and the United States and Japan have previously announced the development of "E-level supercomputing", threatening to win the second game in the Chinese and Western supercomputing race.
However, the British media revealed that China's first E-class supercomputer had been in operation for more than a year before the announcement in the United States, and the remaining two had reached the final stage. "China is hiding its strength!”
In September this year, people familiar with the matter revealed that the computing power of "Shenwei Ocean Light" has reached 15 trillion billion. However, its supercomputers, including "Tianhe Xingyi", have not announced the specific computing power, only to say that it is several times higher than the previous generation.
Sure enough, the United States announced that it would block seven institutions in China that were developing E-class computers, but to no avail. Today, China has basically achieved self-sufficiency in the field of supercomputing
History has proven thatThe more self-reliant you are, the more you can open up the situation, the encirclement of the West will only push our country to break through faster!