Chapter 224 The Galaxy sets sail to catch up with the world’s advanced level
The staff of the supercomputing center are actually holding back their breath.
Why can Americans and Japanese people independently produce supercomputers, but not Xia people?
Wang Xiang didn't say this in a sarcastic way, nor did he look down on the efforts of the supercomputing center's technical staff, but he spoke out of emotion.
In terms of core technology, there is still a long way to go between Xia and the West.
After roughly learning the basic situation of the Galaxy IV series of supercomputers, Wang Xiang said: "This time we are here hoping to apply carbon crystal hard drives to supercomputers."
The supercomputer's CPU and matrix have been fixed, so the computing speed of its chip is fixed.
Installing a carbon crystal hard drive in a supercomputer will not increase the running speed of the computer chip, but it can improve the computer's overall capabilities.
Especially when computers read and write data, carbon crystal hard drives will be several times faster than traditional mechanical disks.
The application of supercomputers depends not only on the computing speed of its CPU, but also on its comprehensive operating capabilities.
No matter how fast the CPU of a computer is, but the reading and writing speed is as slow as a snail, it still cannot exert its power.
Soon, Wang Xiang's team was plunged into intense work.
This batch of carbon crystal hard drives are not directly installed on the Galaxy Computer’s mainframe, nor are they directly used in the Galaxy supercomputer.
Instead, it was used on a satellite mission undertaken by the Galactic Supercomputer.
A very important task of the Galaxy supercomputer is to receive and calculate satellite signals at all times to analyze natural conditions and disasters across the country.
This task is very important for the utilization of Xia's land resources and early warning of disasters.
When traditional hard drives undertake this work, due to the huge amount of data, their reading speed is very slow, which seriously affects the analysis work.
Sometimes the data in the previous part has not been stored yet, and new analysis data appears.
Technicians spend a lot of time storing and reading data every day, which seriously affects work efficiency.
In view of this situation, carbon crystal hard drives will be applied to blades.
Three days later, the installation and testing of the 100T restaurant hard drive was completed.
In the central control room of the supercomputer, Director Guo invited Wang Xiang and others to attend the test ceremony.
"Console, Fengyun satellite data is ready."
Fengyun satellites are a series of meteorological satellites launched by Xia State.
The satellite's meteorological data is critical to Xia's natural disaster prevention and control.
Fengyun Satellite will transmit satellite images to the supercomputer at all times. After the Galaxy supercomputer calculates the satellite images, it will feed back the calculated data.
That is, the data will enter the hard disk from the satellite, the CPU will read and analyze the data from the hard disk, and finally save the analyzed data to the hard disk.
The hard disk will complete the work of writing, reading and writing.
In the past, it usually took the better part of a day to complete this work.
Director Li said: "Data transmission."
A large amount of satellite cloud image data is transferred into the carbon crystal hard drive.
The staff at the supercomputing center were stunned when they saw the speed of data transmission.
It's almost a second transmission. This transmission speed is many times faster than in the past.
Minister Liu from the Technology Department said in surprise: "It is rumored that carbon crystal storage can achieve the optimal performance of computers, and it is true!"
The first step is to write data. In the past, writing data to a data node took at least three hours, but now it can be done in a few minutes.
Step 2: Data reading and analysis.
Data reading is almost no longer a drag on supercomputers, but data analysis depends on the floating point performance of the CPU.
Likewise, the work at this stage is often shortened to more than 1/10 of what it was in the past.
The last part is to store data, which is the second written data.
This step is much faster than step 1.
The entire job took less than half an hour to complete, whereas it used to take more than half a day.
"The data is out!" The technicians were very excited looking at the prepared data packages.
According to this efficiency, the staff of the Supercomputing Center Fengyun Group will obtain more and more accurate data in more time in the future.
Don’t underestimate this improvement. A quick and accurate disaster warning can save tens of millions or even more losses.
Wang Xiang also called Chen Xiao in time to report the good news.
“I didn’t expect that the performance of supercomputers with carbon crystal hard drives would be so improved!”
Definitely.
Chen Xiao thought about being reincarnated when he was in college and helping his dorm roommates optimize their computers.
College students are relatively poor to begin with. They use a laptop from high school to college.
The best way to improve its performance is to increase memory and replace the solid state drive.
Especially when replacing a solid-state disk, the purpose of this is to increase the computer's reading and writing speed.
For ordinary users, after replacing the solid-state disk, the computer's running speed is completely sufficient.
After completing the test of Fengyun series data, the supercomputing center tested the overall performance of the computer, and the results were even more unexpected.
If the Galaxy IV series computers use carbon crystal hard drives, their overall performance will be improved by about 20% compared to the past.
Originally, the Galaxy IV series computers were ranked fifth in the world. After this 20% performance improvement, the global comprehensive performance (not pure CPU floating point computing performance) ranking was directly improved to third.
This achievement made the staff of the supercomputing center very excited.
Xia Guo Supercomputing Center immediately reported its performance data to the international supercomputer TOP500 organization so that the organization could update the computer rankings.
The International Supercomputing Organization was also very surprised after receiving the data from the Xia Guo Supercomputing Center. It did not expect that the improvement of computer reading and writing capabilities would have such a big impact on its performance.
This is unscientific!
But when technicians from the International Supercomputing Organization got the detailed data of Galaxy IV, they were convinced.
"This is not an ordinary hard drive. The read and write speed of this hard drive has reached the optimal level of computer performance."
"To put it more bluntly, this is a memory installed outside the computer that can stably read and write data."
The unintentional words of Li Kefei, the chief expert of the International Supercomputing Organization, really revealed Chen Xiao's next plan.
After receiving the data from Xia Guo, the International Supercomputing Organization quickly updated the latest global supercomputer rankings.
As soon as the news came out, the global computer industry was shocked.
This time, everyone learned about the terrible performance of carbon crystal hard drives from the computer itself rather than from the academic field.
Lian Xiang was the most motivated. They would never have imagined that Xia Guo Technology Company would actually create a world miracle.
Lianxiang's first reaction was to quickly find Changtian Technology and place an order.
If the computers you produce are equipped with carbon crystal hard drives, will you still have trouble selling them?