Chapter 41: Sakura settles in

No matter how hotly discussed the outside world or how much impact XlouS has had on the outside world, it is currently located on Hainan Island in southern China, and everything in the XlouS company headquarters is continuing to operate.

Today, large trucks line up in a line, as if they are constantly driving into the headquarters of XlouS.

Since XlouS announced on the day of the press conference that it would spend 6 billion to build its own supercomputer, Intel's head in Greater China rushed to the company's headquarters the next day.

Obviously, this was a big order of nearly $1 billion. After a day-long negotiation, the contract was finally signed successfully.

If this were three years ago, the transaction would have been difficult to proceed. Because three years ago, the US government banned its own companies from exporting technology to domestic facilities related to the world's fastest supercomputer "Tianhe 2". This policy ban caused a significant blow to Intel and other American hardware suppliers at that time. Greater China is a huge market, which once again caused a technological dispute between China and the United States.

The United States implemented this decree on the grounds that "Tianhe 2" and "Tianhe 1" were "manually used for nuclear explosion activities", but this is simply a fictitious excuse.

However, over time, although supercomputers have potential military uses, the US government has rarely even allowed relevant companies to take export restrictions on supercomputer-related technologies. The reason is that most parts of supercomputer systems can be easily purchased worldwide, and it is difficult to restrict the transportation of these products, so the ban will eventually be left alone.

It is very rare for a corporate company, especially a private company, to invest so much in building supercomputers, but for XlouS, it is urgent to have its own supercomputer. Just the research and development of new products, the company has almost booked "Tianhe No. 2" in the past two years, which shows how huge the XlouS company has for supercomputers.

In addition, another important reason is that "Sakura" must also have its own home. Ren Hong obviously cannot let "she" stay in the "Titan" supercomputer. He used to be unable to do so, but now it is different. Moreover, with the official headquarters of his supercomputer, "Sakura" will also begin to play an incomparable role. In the future, "Sakura" will become the invisible steward of the entire XlouS company, so that Ren Hong can grasp the company's exact information at any time, ensure absolute control of the company, and also play an irreplaceable role in preventing company technology leaks and commercial spies. You must know that every technology of the company costs sky-high R&D investment. Once the theft is undoubtedly an incomprehensible loss for the company, which Ren Hong cannot tolerate.

The company's supercomputer will be named after the "l"-shaped building. The supercomputer "l" will also be completed in this building and become an exclusive area. There are only supercomputers here! The entire building has more than 130 floors, and it seems that more components will be added in the future.

The supercomputer "l" will consist of 40,000 nodes, each node has 2 based on the brand new Lvy.Bridge-E Xeon-E6-3296 microprocessors and 3 Xeon-Phis. It has a total of 80,000 microprocessors and 100,000 Xeon-Phis, with a total of 7.25 million computing cores.

The basic data of supercomputer "l" is almost twice that of Tianhe No. 2. It is obvious that whether it is the peak calculation speed or the continuous calculation speed, supercomputer "l" will win the top position in the global supercomputer rankings in one fell swoop.

Two months later, the supercomputer "l" was finally formed successfully, and XlouS company finally owns its own supercomputer. On this day, Ren Hong was in the "l" building, and now, the "l" supercomputer will begin the first calculation test.

"Chairman, the result is out!" The staff reported with excitement: "The peak calculation speed is 1276 billion times per second, the continuous calculation speed is 869 billion times per second, and the double-precision floating-point computing performance is excellent. Our supercomputer exceeds "Tianhe No. 2" and becomes the fastest supercomputer in the world."

Ren Hong nodded undeniably and said: "These data are all virtual. It is very simple for the United States to build a more powerful supercomputer than a more powerful one. It's just not necessary. Do you think the company's annual maintenance costs of hundreds of millions of yuan in the future are not money? However, the company can still support this amount of money. There are too many places to use supercomputers in the future. In the future, all employees of the company can apply to use supercomputers "l". Some things are better at home. If nothing unexpected happens, the supercomputer "l" may be expanded, but it is enough now."

"What the chairman said is, but no matter what, this is also a piece of data to be proud of." The staff member smiled and said.

"That's right. Then find an opportunity and you can see when you are going to announce it. Let's decide for yourself." Ren Hong said with a smile.

It was time to get off work, but Ren Hong did not leave. At this moment, he was alone in the supercomputer room of the "l"-shaped building. The inside was filled with endless component integration boxes arranged neatly and in an orderly manner. He opened the smart device he carried with him and said, "Sakura, check the entire supercomputer and deal with all the things in question."

"No problem, it will be done in five minutes!" A little loli's voice suddenly came.

Ren Hong looked at these devices and smiled slightly, showing a look of contempt. Obviously, he would not believe that Intel was not tampering with it. Perhaps the other party thought he was happy that he was so relieved that they could form it on their own. Ren Hong could only laugh at this, and it was too natural for it.

Five minutes passed quickly, and Sakura's voice sounded again, "There are 837 surveillance windows hiding in different areas, but they are all done!"

More than 800? Ren Hong couldn't help but twitched when he heard this, "I really care!"

"Okay Sakura, are you satisfied with your new home?" Ren Hong smiled immediately, putting aside these unhappy questions from his mind. People who don't know think he was talking to himself and was crazy.

"I finally have my own new home!" Sakura's excited voice came into Ren Hong's ears, and the latter smiled slightly and said, "Sakura, prepare to connect with the company's network and monitor the flow information of all terminal databases. In the future, you will be the butler of XlouS!"

"In other words, Sakura can help her brother, right?" Little Loli said with inquiry, expecting and waiting for the emotional color.

"Of course! Sakura will become the most capable and irreplaceable assistant to her brother! You are the one whom your brother trusts the most in this world. Do you know?" Ren Hong smiled. He never treated her as an intelligent machine, but a person with a soul.

"Great, Sakura is so happy!" An excited voice rang out.

After arranging Sakura, Ren Hong finally fell a huge rock in his heart. He knew very well that in the future, the company would face various forms of snooping by commercial spies, which may exist outside and even inside. This is always his biggest concern. If this problem is not solved for a day, he will not be at ease, and it is even more impossible to be willing to develop some cutting-edge technologies. And with Sakura monitoring the operation of the entire company all day long, it will be different. He is very confident that anyone will enter Sakura's surveillance sight as soon as possible after entering the company. This is equivalent to indirectly entering his vision. It will be difficult to steal commercial secrets on XlouS.

(To be continued...)

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