Revisiting Future Path

The 080th real-world RMB player

Many similar problems will also arise in the construction of supercomputer systems. Wei Dongsheng can handle the core and most critical technologies with the aid of computer intelligent life, but he can't avoid the details of those accumulated experience. For example, small errors in the layout of the cooling system may cause the perfect structure to become a pile of scrap copper and iron.

No matter how high the core technology is, it has to be helped.

China’s supercomputer industry is currently relatively backward. The latest supercomputer Top_500 released in November 2003 showed that only three of the top 100 were labeled as China. Among the three seats, one is built by IBM. Two supercomputers in the real sense belong to China, one of which is located in the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is the Shenteng 1800 (Lenovo_DeepComp_1800_-_P4_Xeon_2GHz_-_Myrinet) developed by Lenovo, ranking 82; In the Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenteng 6800 (Lenovo_DeepComp_6800_-_Itanium2_1.3GHz_-_QsNet) developed by Lenovo, ranked 14th.

Although it seems to be holding up the banner of the Chinese supercomputer, the foundation of Lenovo's supercomputer business is not long ago.

In fact, Lenovo's server division has just been established two years ago. Before Lenovo entered the server and supercomputer fields, Sugon had been firmly in the top position. In order to quickly occupy the market, Lenovo not only used high salaries and equity to poach out Sugon’s senior engineers and some technical personnel, but also poached Sugon’s user resources.

Then, the relationship between Lenovo and Suguang deteriorated rapidly.

Lenovo just launched the 4 trillion Shuguang 6800 this year, and Sugon immediately announced the development of the faster 10 trillion Shuguang 4000A.

Lenovo jumped out to question, saying that peak speed is not the only indicator for evaluating supercomputers. The most important thing is the actual computing speed. The Sugon machine has not been built yet. Where is the actual speed? Sugon disdains Lenovo, saying, what do you know, after breakthroughs in theory and key technologies, all that is left is procurement and assembly. 10 trillion times is not a problem. Sugon simply looked down upon Lenovo’s Shenteng 1800 and Shenteng 6800. Last year’s press conference said bluntly that Shenteng 1800 was a replica of Suguang TC1700; this year, Lenovo’s Shenteng 6800 was a bitter and satirical: Use it to assemble..."

Sugon does have the confidence to despise Lenovo in the field of supercomputers. In fact, due to lack of technical strength and time constraints, Lenovo has encountered serious setbacks in a certain user's product and does not dare to really entangle the technical problems with Sugon.

In 2003, China’s supercomputer market had only a handful of participants due to its high technical threshold. Wei Dongsheng entered the field of supercomputers and wanted to hire experienced technical personnel. He could only imitate the old Lenovo and use his high salary and equity to tap Shuguang and Lenovo.

Just like competing for the agency operation rights of "World of Warcraft", Wei Dongsheng's entry into the supercomputer market has to rely on money to open the way.

If you can’t accumulate technology, you can use money to make up for it. This way of thinking is similar to that of RMB players in freemium games.

Wei Dongsheng is now a real RMB player in the real world.

Fortunately, Wei Dongsheng is rich.

For the Spring and Autumn series of companies, the current largest expenditure is 830 million yuan to sign the "World of Warcraft". After Lei Jiafei negotiated, the 3 million signing fee was paid in November 2003; the pre-development investment of 6.8 million US dollars was paid in installments. A sum of US$2.8 million was agreed to be paid in January 2004.

More importantly, this fund goes to the account of Chunqiu Network, and Wei Dongsheng does not need to pay for it personally.

As mentioned earlier, when Wei Dongsheng registered Chunqiu Internet Company, in view of the fact that the online game "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" could not be accurately valued at the time, Wei Dongsheng simply split its ownership and operation rights. Wei Dongsheng also registered the Spring and Autumn Software Company and fully owned all the copyrights of "The Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms", and then transferred the operation rights of the "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" to Chunqiu Network with a signing fee of RMB 5 million and a 30% sales share . As of November 30, 2003, the total sales of "Ten Kingdoms Spring and Autumn" had accumulated to 335.1 million yuan, and the 30% sales share transferred to Chunqiu Software was about 100 million yuan in total.

The pre-tax income of Spring Software is 100 million yuan.

Chunqiu Software is wholly owned by Wei Dongsheng.

This billion yuan belongs to Wei Dongsheng.

If the future victory or defeat is unpredictable, investing 100 million yuan in the field of supercomputers is purely a waste of water. However, Wei Dongsheng has computer intelligent life assistance, and computer intelligent life has even simulated the design of supercomputers. As long as the assembly problems in the real world are solved, it will be a successful project. Since it is an inevitable success project, there is no need to consider failure to pay tuition, 100 million yuan is enough for Wei Dongsheng to save a supercomputer.

Of course, Wei Dongsheng will not stupidly bear all capital expenditures and risks by himself.

Wei Dongsheng urged the server to be updated into a high-performance computing cluster on the grounds that the number of players in "The Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" is increasing day by day and the server is approaching the upper limit of load. In order to save money, reduce risks, and accumulate technical knowledge, Chunqiu Network should cooperate with Chunqiu Software to invest in the development of supercomputers and high-performance computing clusters. Supercomputers come first, and high-performance computing clusters are behind. Wei Dongsheng equivalently embezzled the research and development funds of Chunqiu Networks high-performance computing clusters to develop supercomputers that are most urgently needed for computer intelligent life.

In Wei Dongsheng's future plans, supercomputers do not belong to the business scope of the Spring and Autumn series of companies, so he registered the "Wisdom Universe" brand, referred to as Zhiyu series companies.

Wisdom Universe Information Industry Co., Ltd. is the first company in the Zhiyu series, and supercomputer R&D and manufacturing is the first business of Wisdom Universe Information Industry Company.

Lenovo and Sugon share a common historical origin, and they are also a 20-year old company, so it is relatively easy for it to dig into the corner of Sugon. However, Chunqiu Network and Chunqiu Software have just been established a year ago. They have no history of supercomputer research and development before, and at this moment they don't have a huge amount of funds that can be wasted wantonly. Their appeal to senior engineers in the supercomputer field is very limited. Wei Dongsheng asked Jingminqiang to help, and it was difficult to recruit suitable candidates. He could only increase the salary over and over again, and recruit technicians at a premium of two, three, or even five times.

A senior engineer named Xiao Lei, whose family is in urgent need of money, Wei Dongsheng directly offered "3 million yuan in settlement allowance and 5 million yuan in interest-free loan" conditions, successfully persuading him to join the smart universe information industry. Considering that technicians have always believed in their credibility, Wei Dongsheng decided to use Xiao Lei as a breakthrough point.

Xiao Lei is a workaholic. He spent several days dealing with housework and drove back to Yanjing. After hearing the news, Wei Dongsheng came to express his condolences: "Have you been busy with family affairs? If you have any trouble, just talk to the company."

Xiao Lei was quite uncomfortable with Wei Dongsheng's condolences.

Xiao Lei graduated from the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University in 1993, and obtained a master's and doctoral degree from the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. After that, he went to Japan as a visiting scholar and returned to China at the end of 2002. Xiao Lei has graduated for ten years, but Wei Dongsheng is still a second-year high school student. This age gap and status gap make Xiao Lei quite unsuitable for the age gradient of the private enterprise system.

Xiao Lei is a typical technical person with a slightly introverted personality. Although he is not comfortable with Wei Dongsheng's condolences, he can maintain communication with questions and answers.

Xiao Lei thanked Wei Dongsheng for his concern: "It's all right now."

Wei Dongsheng: "Is it enough for a settlement of 3 million and an interest-free loan of 5 million? If it is not enough, just say, the company will never let you shed blood and tears."

Xiao Lei said quickly: "Enough, enough, 3 million is enough."

Wei Dongsheng: "Is that enough?"

Xiao Lei: "That's enough."

Before the condolences, Wei Dongsheng had already learned about Xiao Lei's family difficulties.

Xiao Lei was born in Puyang City, Henan Province, and came from a poor rural area like Wei Dongsheng. There are two Xiao Lei brothers, Xiao Lei is the eldest brother, only one year behind his second brother. In the 1980s, Xiao Lei and his second brother desperately squeezed toward the single-plank bridge for the college entrance examination, but the Xiao family was so poor that they couldn't afford the brothers' tuition and fees. Xiao Lei thought that his eldest brother was like a father and wanted to drop out of school for his second brother. Unexpectedly, his second brother was more determined than him: "You are the seventh in the grade, and I am the seventeenth in the grade. Your hope of entering university is better I am a big student, so if I want to quit school, I also quit school. Besides, you will not be mixed up with society, and you will not be able to make money like me if you quit school."

Then, the second brother of the Xiao family dropped out, and Xiao Lei continued to study.

In order to make up for Xiao Lei’s tuition and fees, the second brother of the Xiao family tried every means to make money, grinding sesame oil, soaking bean sprouts, roasting sweet potatoes, and so on. The road to Tsinghua University. However, graduating from university does not mean being rich, especially Xiao Lei who chooses a scientific research route. Xiao Lei's pockets remained empty during his master's degree, doctoral degree, and visiting scholars' trip to Japan, and he slowly gained some savings until he returned to China last year.

Unlike Xiao Lei's route from university to scientific research, the second brother of the Xiao family took a different path in life.

The second brother of the Xiao family dropped out of the first grade of high school. He only had a junior high school diploma, so he couldn't expect a job at a tall university. However, the second brother of the Xiao family was also unwilling to work in his hometown. When the migrant workers appeared, he immediately followed the trend and went south. A few years later, the second brother of the Xiao family left a snack shop in Shenhai City. Although he was far from successful in his career, he still had a good life. Because the small restaurant business is good, the second brother of the Xiao family has more money than the doctor Xiao Lei, and occasionally subsidizes Xiao Lei one or two.

Seeing that life is getting better day by day, the Xiao family has not yet felt that they are finally out of their heads, and the second brother of the Xiao family suddenly sees disaster from heaven.

The source of the disaster was the child of the second brother of the Xiao family.

Unlike Xiao Lei who is not yet married, due to the difficulty of marrying in rural areas, the second brother of the Xiao family hurriedly got married when he was young and just dropped out of school. The baby is now 13 years old. The second brother of the Xiao family's career is in Shenhai, and his birthplace is in Puyang. Naturally, his child's school status is also in his hometown in Puyang. The second brother of the Xiao family didn't say anything, but deep down he was very envious of Xiao Lei's life, hoping that his children could break through the social class barriers like Xiao Lei. Owners of small restaurants like the second brother of Xiao’s family can’t expect their children to take the college entrance examination in Shenhai, so they can only obediently return home to participate in the hell-mode Henan college entrance examination.

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