Chapter 185: The New Engine of the Universe(1/2)
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The next day, Yang Guoli was still lying on the bed with a cold and was dizzy, and the staff of Huanyu Company accompanied him to find him at the school leader.
The boys' dormitories have always been known for being dirty and messy, but Yang Guoli and his dormitories are clean today.
This is the result of their dormitory doing all night.
"National Gift. Wake up quickly. People from the Universal Corporation are here!" Wang Ping shook Yang Guoli hard and dragged him out of the bed. Several people put on coats for him.
The staff of the Huanyu Company saw that Yang Guoli had a flushed complexion and had symptoms of clearing his nose. He quickly stopped him and said, "Don't get up. Just sit on the bed!" He reached out and tried Yang Guoli's body temperature. It was a little hot, not very hot.
"Is there any cold medicine in the dormitory? The classmate of the state gift caught a cold. Take some medicine first. We have time and talk slowly."
All the people in the dormitory have participated in the work and then applied for the postgraduate entrance examination. They are a little moved by the consideration of the world-renowned large companies. Even if they are careless, they are nothing, but judging from their attitude, this is the demeanor of a large company!
After a lot of busyness, the others in the dormitory were unwilling to leave. They sat on the edge of the bed with saliva, wanting to get close to the staff of the Universal Company. The staff did not ask them to avoid it, smiled, moved a stool, and sat next to Yang Guoli's bed.
The school leaders made a look at them, and several of them pretended not to see it.
The school leaders thought about it and simply stayed and participated in the audition.
"Mr. Li graduated from Nanjing Institute of Technology. I heard that you worked in the Institute of Optoelectronics." He asked Yang Guoli kindly.
Yang Guoli had a cold. When he heard him ask, he became even more nervous and sweated on his forehead: "Yes. I used to study the optoelectronics major. When I first filled out the application area, I didn't know anything. After the teacher and my parents discussed it, he said that the optoelectronics major had a promising future. I was admitted to Nanjing Institute of Technology in a confused manner. But after work, I found that I didn't like this job at all... That's why I took the graduate exam and wanted to re-learn computer programming..."
The more he spoke, the more nervous he became. He was whispering. He didn't know what he said.
The staff member kept smiling and listening patiently.
The school leader was afraid that Yang Guoli would talk nonsense and said something unpleasant. He quickly interrupted: "Actually, Guoli's classmate has good grades. Although he is learning programming by himself, his basic skills are still good, especially with many unexpected ideas and very thoughtful!"
The staff smiled and nodded: "We also heard about the name of Yang Guoli from several research institutes. They all said that Guoli compiled local programs. They are very suitable for the needs of scientific researchers. The program itself is not complicated. However, the interface is friendly and it is easy for scientific researchers to get started. We also borrowed a set of programs and went back to read them. We were very inspired.
"Yes, yes! Programming is about serving people! The software talents cultivated by our school emphasize that the software must meet user needs to the greatest extent. Yang Guoli did a good job in this regard!" The school leaders smiled like a flower and praised Yang Guoli.
Yang Guoli was dizzy and could not make a turn. He said bluntly: "This is because I have studied radio and television major. I have some understanding of basic physics knowledge and some practical experience. After actual investigation, I know the needs of scientific researchers and the procedures prepared will be recognized by them."
"It's very good!" The staff agreed loudly. "We are most afraid of software engineering. The situation we are most afraid of is that we work hard to compile programs and not recognized by users. You have studied physics professionally and participated in actual work. Although you lack software programming capabilities, you can understand the needs of scientific research customers to the greatest extent. This is extremely rare! Our company is about to recruit one or two hundred application software engineers recently, but after searching for it, it has been more than half a month, but this quota has not been fully collected yet!"
The staff touched their heads and sighed.
Zhou Jun raised his hand aside and recommended himself: "This... this comrade. My name is Zhou Jun. Although I have been learning computer programs, I used to work in Shenyang Heavy Machinery Factory. I was responsible for the maintenance of automation instruments and had a certain understanding of mechanical manufacturing. I don't know if I can also apply to your application software engineer."
"Oh really?" The staff member's eyes lit up. He saw the school leader next to him smiling and nodding his head to confirm, slapped his thigh hard, "This is called searching for iron shoes. It doesn't take any effort to get it. OK, if Zhou Jun agrees, we will do an assessment of your mechanical manufacturing knowledge. I don't know if it's OK."
"Yes. Of course!" Zhou Jun smiled so hard that he couldn't close his mouth and agreed.
The school leaders were also laughing happily. Huanyu Company recruited two students from the school at a time. It was a matter of great respect to telling it out, and it would be of great help to next year's enrollment.
Wang Ping and the others were very eager, but after thinking about it, they couldn't find that they had the advantage of being a multi-tastic.
The staff of the Universal Company asked Yang Guoli some photoelectric knowledge and listened to him, and the answer was correct and he was very satisfied. He left him a phone number to make him better, so he called him and then went to the company to negotiate the work contract.
Zhou Jun naturally followed the staff member to attend the interview at Huanyu Company.
In the evening of that day, Zhou Jun jumped back to the dormitory, and his first sentence was: "I will treat you tonight. I will spend as much as possible within 100 yuan!"
"You've passed." The few people in the same dormitory were so envious and asked repeatedly.
"Of course!" Zhou Jun raised his chest and said loudly. "The assessment was over. Huanyu Company said that although our mechanical manufacturing foundation is not very solid, it is still good in the application field, so I was hired as a commercial application software engineer!"
"Commercial Application Software Engineer" asked in unison.
The classification of engineers in the world is so detailed. I heard that they were application software engineers before, and another commercial application software engineer appeared. They all looked at Yang Guoli. Could it be that the position waiting for him is a research application software engineer
The next day, Zhou Jun completed the procedures with the school and moved into the employee apartment of Huanyu. According to his opinion, in the first year, he was half-working and half-studying, while participating in actual work. In order to avoid strengthening the professional knowledge of machinery and programming, Huanyu told him that he would be very sad and hard in the first year.
Yang Guoli also had a guess in his heart, but his questions were answered in three days.
Just like they discussed, Yang Guoli's position is a research application software engineer.
Moreover, as soon as he arrived, he invested in a major project of Universal Corporation: Chaotian Project.
I heard from the seniors that this work was formulated by the company's boss Xiao Qiang and focused on the ground project. The company's requirements are not to consider any costs. Using the company's existing technical capabilities, we will develop a supercomputer that reflects the highest technological level!
Of course, Yang Guoli's level is not enough to assume such a major responsibility. The company assigned him the task to participate in the audition and learn about the structure and performance of the supercomputer in detail. In the future, it will be able to compile applications that maximize its performance for this supercomputer.
Work in other places is not limited to this. Every afternoon, he will personally attend the development conference. At the beginning of the development site of this supercomputer, he will participate in the entire process. He has first-hand information from the aspects of its structural discussion, component composition, and process level.
In the morning, Yang Guoli also went to various laboratories in the optoelectronics discipline to help scientists.
The company requires that he does not need to become a qualified scientific researcher, but he is required to understand the needs of the researchers in detail during this six months. Yang Guoli must learn to use all experimental equipment during this period and have some understanding.
He needs to understand what kind of data researchers mainly collect in the laboratory. Those data are subject to large-scale computing.
After half a year, he would assist the machinery manufacturing department in transforming all local instruments. If there is no computer processing system, he would add processing chips, transformed scientific research instruments, and what would have included computer processing systems. The data needed to be calculated should be transmitted to the supercomputer system through an optical fiber network, and the supercomputer would perform data processing.
Yang Guolidi’s final task is to compile the most friendly program interface for scientific researchers so that scientific researchers who have no knowledge of computers can also get started quickly.
This is his first step in his work.
The subsequent work will prepare special applications for specific research topics to help scientific researchers and accelerate scientific research!
This is a super huge project.
Fortunately, Yang Guoli was not fighting alone. There were about 20 local application software engineers in the same group as him. They mainly targeted photoelectric physics. Others also include material groups, integrated circuit groups, component groups, biochemistry groups, etc., involving various disciplines in the company's research areas.
Application software engineers are actually designing software for scientific researchers.
Above them, there is also an underlying system software compilation department, and all the underlying software of supercomputers are designed by them. Only the interface is left for the application software department and the data from the laboratory is received for processing.
Even if Yang Guoli and his friends compiled scientific research application software, they will also use their reviews to optimize the program and improve the execution efficiency of the program as much as possible. They will provide support for scientific research and experiments to the greatest extent.
Yang Guoli finally understood why his computer programming skills were obviously not as good as Zhou Jun. However, Zhou Jun went to the commercial application software department, not like him. He was in the scientific research application software department.
Because they have different customer bases.
Commercial software is a general software. It is aimed at most commercial customers, and the scientific research application software engineer he serves as absolutely providing services for scientific research. It requires as professional knowledge as possible and can hand over the most heavy calculations to supercomputers for processing. It can minimize the working pressure of scientists and improve the speed of scientific research.
Therefore, within the company, the status of scientific research and application software engineers is higher than that of commercial application software engineers! Even to a certain extent, those professional software engineers are also below them.
Yang Guoli kept spinning like a top every day, but it was also extremely fulfilling.
The company said that it was not cost-free. He also had the most intuitive understanding of what it was to cost-free:
The supercomputer architecture, the computer software and hardware departments jointly discussed for a whole month before coming up with three plans. The company chose the most expensive plan. It also put forward higher requirements for some of the details, and in one sentence it doubled the cost that made Yang Guoli dizzy.
The processor chip adopts multi-core technology.
In order to achieve the best results, the company first used more than two months to manufacture a batch of dual-core chips. After accumulating some experience, it began to produce three-core, four-core, and even five-core chips.
In fact, according to Yang Guoli's understanding, it is very difficult to manufacture four-core chips based on the company's current technology level, but under the boss's forced order, more than 20 five-core chips were manufactured at a yield rate of 3%! For this purpose, there were as many as thousands of chips, which cost millions!
Yang Guoli was frightened and according to this method of spending money, he kept striving for excellence in every component.
When the supercomputer is built, the company will not go bankrupt!
Even a small country, if it wants to build such a supercomputer with high demands, it will probably go bankrupt!
To his surprise, the chip laboratory carefully selected the chip. The highest performance chip was handed over to the company for review. In a few days, the Chaotian Plan General Command received more than 20,000 yuan. The chips were processed in the same high quality! In the next ten days, the chips were delivered continuously. Soon, more than 100,000 yuan!
Yang Guoli couldn't believe his eyes!
Isn’t the technological strength of the Universal Company the highest in the country? It’s just that he doesn’t know much about it. However, based on the information obtained, comparing the domestic and international levels, he also came to the same conclusion.
With the company's technical strength, it took a full three months and worked hard to create this chip.
If you want to make more than 65,000 chips to meet the use of the entire machine, the number of waste products in the failed place will reach tens of millions of yuan. The cost is simply astronomical! It will take another ten thousand years to build it!
Even the company cannot complete the work. Which department and which company can do it
This is a completely fantasy!
It made him even more strange that it was the attitude of the colleagues in the company. They all calmly accepted the chips that fell from the sky this time, and their expressions seemed to be taken for granted, and they didn't think there was anything impossible at all. Several times, Yang Guoli wanted to ask them why and why such an unreasonable thing happened.
But he didn't dare to speak. He could only keep these questions in his heart.
Chips are still coming continuously, one hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, three hundred thousand... six hundred thousand. It stopped until the number of chips reached 131 thousand yuan.
Yang Guoli calculated it in his mind for a moment, and was frightened by this number.
Twenty units! Ten
The company has to build a total of twenty supercomputers, rather than just making one and satisfying it!
The boss wants to do land. Every subject has its own land supercomputer!
This is so fucking crazy!
Many times, Yang Guoli didn't know whether he was awake or dreaming. He wanted to know whether he was still on Earth. Whether Universal Company has become an alien base
Just in a daze, he saw the company conducting construction and laying something on the roofs of buildings in all places.
With curiosity, he also ran to the roof of the laboratory to visit.
It is a closed rectangular box installed on a steel frame. The ground for connecting it to the steel frame is specially bearing, with extremely small friction. The box is always aimed at the sun when it is automatically adjusted and mechanically driven.
The box faces the sun and is equipped with a special ground mirror that can focus solar light and project onto some objects inside that seem to be platinum-filled ground.
After the installation staff explained, he realized that this was not a platinum film. It was a high-performance silicon-light solar film produced by the company after several years of development and manufacturing.
This is the company's trial production focusing on solar cells!
Originally, in Beijing, there was serious pollution and insufficient sunlight, so it was not supposed to be used as a solar cell site. However, supercomputers consume too much power. After calculation, the power consumption of a set of computers reached 1,150 kilowatts!
To be continued...