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Zhao Ye didn't have to wait long for Beijing University to have results.
Speaking of which, there are two reasons why it is so fast.
First, they have a certain foundation. After all, Beijing University is involved in the current Sugon series of computers. They are very experienced in understanding and using the instruction set of the central processor.
Furthermore, there are practical needs and preparations. Professor Ci and others have long thought about using computers to draw, but it was difficult for previous computers to support their idea.
Now that we have a suitable computer, the previous accumulation has been put to use. In addition, the human resources here are unmatched by other places, so it is not surprising that the progress is faster.
Zhao Ye lamented the high efficiency of Beijing University, but when the same news was fed back to Shuimu, it became a pressure.
What's going on? Why are you still ahead of Beijing University? How can you tolerate this!
Therefore, Mizuki's side is like a chicken blood, and must come up with software that is more mature and easier to use than that of Jingcheng University.
This situation is what everyone wants to see, so under the model of programming competitions held by schools on both sides, one office software after another has been developed.
Of course, the functions of the office software at this time cannot be compared with those of later generations. But now it is very satisfactory. In terms of the current hardware environment, even if it is complicated, it may not be able to run.
As long as it works, what else do you need a bicycle for?
The joint factory has increased its production intensity, and more workstation computers have been produced. However, the production lines here only produce large items, and the key processing chips are all from Zhao Ye.
I want to ask whether the current technology of this kind of chip can be mass-produced? It can definitely be mass-produced.
However, this yield rate is really frighteningly low, and only a "master" like Zhao Ye can control the yield rate within an acceptable range.
However, the consequence of this uniqueness is that it is difficult to achieve large-scale manufacturing of workstation-type computers. At present, there is basically no external spread, and they are only used internally by relevant units in the joint factory.
In addition, another feature of the workstation is that it can be operated online.
Zhao Ye saved a large workstation that was used as a server. It was called large because it had more processors, larger memory, and a larger hard drive. Of course, the price was also higher.
With the server and the previously designed switch, a small local area network is formed.
Both Beijing University and Shuimu University have installed such networks, and then Zhao Ye installed signal repeaters and large switch units to realize remote joint working among the three places.
When the network first took shape, everyone online participated in the test.
The test content is very simple, chatting on a public platform! However, this is still different from the BBS of later generations, and the chat content cannot be saved in large quantities.
The server's resources are very tight, okay? The precious resources cannot be used to store these people's nonsense.
So, the first person who wanted to complain about Zhao Ye appeared. In order to avoid Zhao Ye's pursuit, he also changed his name. So inadvertently, this lucky guy invented the first online name in history.
In the future, when everyone looks back on history, this person will not admit that he is the owner of this online name! Can he say that he just wanted to "swear" Zhao Ye? If this is found out, his death will not be too miserable.
!
Between honor and life and death, he decisively chose the latter.
Zhao Ye's purpose was just to test the server's pressure-bearing ability, but who would have thought that such a "master" would be born! For a time, everyone seemed to have found a way and changed their names one after another.
This made Zhao Ye extremely depressed, and Political Commissar Luo was equally depressed. Seeing the subtitles scrolling on the screen becoming more and more outrageous, he realized that this was not going to work, as it would be too easy for something to happen.
Therefore, at the request of the "net police", before these people were "free" for a day, Zhao Ye implemented a real-name system.
This real-name system is very simple, because there are only a few computers now! There are no more than 400 computers.
There are even fewer people who can connect to the Internet. Therefore, the Internet account has changed from directly using the computer address "IP" to register it, and now has to apply for it at the Luo Political Commissar. With a fixed account, everyone's "free" soul has been "pacified"
, each one became a good baby again.
These are all trivial matters and can be regarded as an episode in the process of networking.
The biggest change brought about by the Internet is that design teams can finally work in parallel.
Take Professor Ci's chip design team as an example. In the past, everyone gathered around a drawing. Now, no one is guarding a computer.
Then open the corresponding drawing software and do your own part in a specific area. The most direct impact of this is that future chip designs must require modules!
In other words, each area has specific functions and logical structures for each area, otherwise such a design pattern cannot be established.
This is a small problem. Zhao Ye didn't go out of his way to tell everyone. Everyone will naturally make such a choice in practice.
Electronic office has made the entire project progress by leaps and bounds. Otherwise, it makes sense that productivity is determined by production tools.
Design work has improved very quickly, especially in Laboratory No. 8. People from all over the world need to get in touch. Now with such an achievement and platform, people's enthusiasm and enthusiasm for work have been greatly improved.
Coupled with Zhao Ye's encouragement from time to time and timely handling of various problems encountered by each group, the progress of the entire project can be described as overwhelming.
In March, the FPGA chip was "gnawed" out by Zhao Ye. Although the function was not very strong, it also realized eight by eight logic units, which was barely usable.
In April, the central program-controlled switch modified on the basis of the workstation was finalized. The related software system began to be developed.
In May, the new telephone design was finalized.
June group user switch design finalization.
In July, the entire system began network testing.
In the scorching weather of July, Zhao Ye and everyone in the laboratory were shirtless and couldn't go to the basement. There are too many electronic devices nowadays, which not only consume a lot of electricity but also emit a lot of heat.
The temperature in the basement is very unstable due to the influence of these computers, which directly causes the pass rate of chip production to plummet. Especially the second and a half generation photolithography machines are too sensitive to temperature response.
In order to ensure the normal operation of the equipment, Zhao Ye could only sacrifice people.
Everyone moved out of the basement and began to face the test of high temperature weather.
Today is the first day of testing. In fact, in the stress test of program-controlled switches, there is no need to actually connect so many phones to these switches.
Then the test will have to last until the year of the monkey, and how many people will be needed to do it!
Strictly speaking, Zhao Ye's experiment should be regarded as a simulation experiment. Computer programs were used to replace the dialing and talking on the telephone line.
However, this would require a large number of computers. The basement was unusable, so Zhao Ye could only ask the factory to coordinate and build a huge shed on an open space.
One is to provide shade, and the other is to prevent rain.
Computers are so valuable. If it gets wet in the rain, Director Yang will kill someone! Even if Director Yang doesn't kill you, you have damaged such an important computer. Shouldn't you commit suicide to thank the world?
The factory is very busy. Except for some porters who come to help build sheds, the main workers are administrative people.
Even Factory Director Yang and Political Commissar Luo have taken action. How can researchers like Zhao Ye still watch from the sidelines?
Take off your shirt and do it!
The sun tanned Zhao Ye and the others into black men, but in doing so, it only drew in the relationship between comrades. Looking at these fair-skinned researchers who had been hiding in the basement before, it took only two days for them to become black.
Another look showed that these people were laughing happily with each other.
The shed was set up, and the equipment was transported up in sets, and they were all neatly stacked in the open-air shed. Among the dozens of people like Zhao Ye, no one was idle. They were all enduring the high temperature at this time, working on each machine one by one.
The Taiwanese assemble this equipment.
After all the equipment was debugged, Zhao Ye couldn't wait to issue the order to start the test. Although it was already night at this time, it was a good night, at least it wasn't hot anymore! There were just more mosquitoes.
As each device was integrated into the server, analog dialing began. Zhao Ye and the other main designers stared nervously at the screen in front of them, which displayed the number of online switches for each group switch and the central switch.
"Director, it is already close to 50% of the designed quantity. Do you want to increase it?" a monitor asked Zhao Ye loudly.
"Record the data, and then increase it to 80%." Zhao Ye followed the plan, marked it on the small notebook, and issued the order.
"Yes." The monitor replied, and then began to operate on the computer.
Fifteen minutes later...
"Report, it has reached 80% of the design value."
Zhao Ye did not raise his head. He was also staring at the screen nervously and looking at the data. But the data he saw was different from the data seen by others.
Zhao Ye pays close attention to the status parameters of the switch, including the maximum response time, operating speed, chip temperature, and chassis environment temperature. Especially important is the operating status of the FPGA chip.
It was the first time that this kind of chip was put into use, and the relevant experience was basically zero. However, this thing was too important, and Zhao Ye couldn't help but be careless.
However, after the data reached 100% of Zhao Ye's design value, Zhao Ye did not stop and continued to increase the intensity of the test. As a result, in the group switch, the number of waiting connection requests exceeded the actual number of processing by the switch.
In Ye's monitoring screen, the parameters inside the body increased rapidly. After rising to a threshold, the system's self-protection function was activated, and some connection requests were forcibly hung up.
The consequence of this is that it reduces the user experience, but it can preserve the device. Finding a balance between the two is a problem that every designer has to face.
The same is true for Zhao Ye. Originally, the current maximum number of connections in a group of switches cannot exceed 128. If it exceeds, you have to wait, and it will be hung up on you after a certain period of time.
Either redial, or wait a little longer and try again. There is no way, the current system can only support this step, and it is useless to have opinions.