Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 221: Computing Power Issues (Subscription Request)

After returning to Sijiu City, Yang Ning rested for two days. After his fatigue was relieved, he immediately went to the Institute of Mechanics.

Although Mr. Guo was still responsible for the research of a new generation of wind tunnels at this time, his salary was taken into consideration and he was allowed to serve concurrently as deputy director of the Institute of Mechanics.

Not only that, at the request of President Guo, Mr. Guo also served as the director of the Department of Chemistry at USTC.

At this point, I have to admire Mr. Guo's comprehensiveness. A person who specializes in aerodynamics actually has remarkable attainments in the field of chemistry.

"Yang Ning, you're back. If you don't come back, we won't be able to continue the research on explosion theory!"

As soon as he saw Yang Ning, Mr. Guo complained.

"It's not that serious. Even if I'm not here, doesn't the computing center still have machine 107? You can hand over your experimental data there for processing! Can the computing center refuse to accept your computing tasks?"

Yang Ning asked in confusion when he saw Mr. Guo looked haggard.

"Don't mention the computing center!" It would have been fine if Yang Ning hadn't said anything, but once he mentioned it, Mr. Guo complained with a gloomy face: "The computing center's computing power, except for helping to process some scientific research data, the rest of the time is occupied by the group of people from the Atomic Research Institute."

"On the third day after you left, we sent them a set of experimental data and asked them to help with the calculation. It has been a month now, and there has been no news at all."

"In the words of those people at the Atomic Research Institute, we have already snatched you away from us. If we try to snatch the 107 from them, they will have no choice but to use the abacus to launch a thermonuclear bomb!"

"Even the electron tube computer at USTC is now assigned many computing tasks, so it's not even our turn."

"We have been unable to process the experimental data recently. There is a huge backlog. If we don't process this data, we really won't be able to continue our experiments."

Hearing Mr. Guo's complaint, Yang Ning smiled apologetically and hurriedly comforted him: "Okay, I'm back now. If you have any data that needs to be calculated, just bring it out and I'll help you with it now."

In this situation, we really can't blame the computing center for not helping. With the establishment of many of our scientific research projects, the computing tasks have increased.

In the past, there was a bug called Yang Ning. Even if there were a lot of computing tasks, it would only take one or two days for Yang Ning to complete them.

But with the successful development of transistor computers, people were embarrassed to trouble Yang Ning for some data that did not require much computational effort, so they could only go to the computing center and wait in line.

Yang Ning's work focus has recently shifted to missile research, which has led to the current problem of tight computing power.

But this is also a good thing. If there is still a shortage of computing power after we have 107 machines, it means that our scientific research has been booming, otherwise this problem would not have occurred.

Solving this problem is also very simple. As long as we can produce qualified transistors, we just need to build more 106 and 107 machines.

It is said that Ms. Lin, who just returned to China, did not even take a rest after learning about the difficulties in the development of our computers, and plunged directly into the research of semiconductors.

Unfortunately, Yang Ning had no chance to participate because he was busy coordinating the research on missiles and wind tunnels.

However, now that the missile research has come to a temporary end, Yang Ning has plenty of time to deal with other things.

After spending half a day processing the backlog of information from Mr. Guo, Yang Ning planned to go to the data processing institute to take a look.

I don’t know what the data processing institute is doing now during the time I was away.

Just think about it and you will know that it should be very quiet there during this period!
But what you fear will come true. Just when Yang Ning was about to say goodbye and leave, Mr. Guo suddenly asked, "By the way, why hasn't Mr. Qian come yet? I finally came up with some problems during this period of research, and I was planning to discuss them with him?" After hearing what Mr. Guo said, Yang Ning could only tell the truth helplessly.

He originally thought that when Mr. Guo heard that Mr. Qian would not be able to come back in the near future, he did not expect that Mr. Guo would just nod calmly.

"Sure enough, I knew it would be like this!"

Then he looked at Yang Ning and said, "Since Mr. Qian won't be back anytime soon, you'll have to be busy during this period. The research on detonation theory has reached a critical moment. Without Mr. Qian, you can't let him down again."

"Okay, I will cooperate!" Yang Ning felt that he had underestimated the broad-mindedness of these big guys. This might be the tacit understanding between Mr. Guo and Mr. Qian.

When Yang Ning arrived at the data processing center, he found that it was extremely deserted. The busy scene of people coming and going in the past was completely gone.

However, the necessary protective measures were still in place. When the soldier guarding the door saw Yang Ning, he was obviously stunned.

After checking according to the rules, Yang Ning walked in.

In the hall where dozens of people were busy in the past, there were only three or four people cleaning at this time. Before Yang Ning could ask what happened, Yang Fengyu came over in a hurry.

After seeing Yang Ning, he was obviously excited: "Yang Ning, you are finally back."

"Uncle Yang, I've been away for such a long time, how come our place has become like this?"

Yang Ning asked doubtfully.

"Alas!" Uncle Yang pulled Yang Ning into his office, sighed helplessly, and then explained: "The higher-ups took our confidentiality into consideration and decided to reduce our staffing."

"As a result, the computing center will easily become the focus of attention. In order to strengthen the protection measures of the computing center, some of our people were transferred there."

"There are less than ten people left in the entire data processing center, not counting the security personnel."

Yang Ning could clearly hear the hint of melancholy in Uncle Yang's tone when he spoke.

After all, the data processing institute has gone from being bustling with people to being deserted now, and no one can calmly accept this gap.

However, there is no problem with the above arrangement. After the appearance of machine 107, data from scientific research projects with small computing requirements no longer need to be sent here.

As a result, the number of people in the Data Processing Institute seemed a bit bloated.

After transferring some people, not only can the confidentiality of the computing center be strengthened, but the protection pressure of the data processing institute can also be reduced.

"Haha~" After figuring it out, Yang Ning smiled and comforted him: "Uncle Yang, you don't have to worry. Even if we have a computing center, the key research projects still rely on us. You don't have to worry about changing jobs before retirement."

"I'm over 50, do I still need to worry about these things? I just haven't recovered yet!"

Uncle Yang saw that Yang Ning really didn't think much about it, and he breathed a sigh of relief, glared at him and said.

In fact, the reason for this was also because they were afraid that Yang Ning was too young to understand the reason for doing this, so they asked him to do Yang Ning's work, but they didn't expect that he would be comforted by Yang Ning in the end.

(End of this chapter)