Chapter 360 Accidentally revitalized China’s supercomputing industry
Perhaps because Chang Haonan’s expression was a little tangled when he answered, Li Jie added:
“Chang Haonan doesn’t have to be too busy. Worrying, considering your reputation in our Shuguang Group, I don’t think it’s a big problem to pass. This is just a process in accordance with the regulations.”
This statement made Chang Haonan a little interested:
“What is my reputation in your group?”
"Let's put it this way, thanks to Chang Gong's actions in April this year, our group has achieved profitability three years ahead of schedule, and we don't have to worry about our performance in the next two years..."
Talking about this matter Li Jie's face almost burst into laughter,
"April..."
Chang Haonan briefly recalled it.
I have done many things in the first half of the year, but if I really want to be related to Shuguang Group, whose main business is IT, it should only be the influential Beijing Airlines Supercomputing Center.
"What about our school's supercomputing center?"
He tentatively confirmed.
"Yes, it has helped us a lot."
Li Jie nodded:
"Originally, things like supercomputers were not taken seriously. , especially to be honest, the performance of Sugon series supercomputer is not ranked high in the world. In China, it is used by several relevant research institutes of the Academy of Sciences and a handful of state-owned enterprises. Tens of millions of computers are used every year. Funds are invested, but there is almost no output.”
"It turns out that after your school started doing this for a while, it was like a switch was turned on. Now colleges and universities across the country have begun to engage in an arms race in the field of supercomputing. No matter what field or direction it is, it seems that there is no such thing in the school. , as if I was embarrassed to meet people..."
"When I reported to the board of directors at the beginning of this year, I even considered giving up part of my shares in exchange for new investment because of the huge losses. After a few months, the revenue pressure suddenly dropped..."
"So many schools use our domestic Sugon series machines?"
Chang Haonan was delighted after hearing this.
No way, these days, even if the United States and Japan block the top technologies and use their own second-rate products, the performance will be reduced to a dimensionality reduction.
Even Beijing Airlines’ supercomputer was built on the basis of platform authorization from Silicon Graphics (SGI).
Although it cannot be said to be completely imported, it can be regarded as quasi-domestic at best.
“Most schools are still not that wealthy.”
Li Jie took a sip of water and continued to explain, “Those like Qinghua University, Yanda, Jinling, and Zhejiang Province have abundant funds. Of course, schools like yours can develop higher-performance supercomputing platforms like yours. However, some ordinary colleges and universities, even vocational and technical schools in developed coastal areas, do not have such high demand or don’t have that much money, so they naturally choose us. Shuguang Group’s server products will be more cost-effective.”
It can be heard from the former’s tone that even if they only get some orders with low profit margins, they are already quite satisfied.
Not only him, but Chang Haonan was also quite satisfied——
Such a butterfly effect was something I had never thought of before.
Just now, he was thinking about how to maintain the technology, industry and trade development route of China's IT industry with technology research and development as the core for two years without being cut off.
As a result, it seems that Shuguang Group has become somewhat famous.
In the original timeline, they did encounter financial difficulties as Li Jie said, and in the end, after some operations, Dream Group took away 20 million shares.
Although it does not play a decisive role, it is still a bit painful.
The current situation is much better in comparison.
Of course, the idea of using schools as the main body to operate supercomputers was not proposed by Chang Haonan.
But the reason why Tang Lintian proposed such a bold and risky proposal, and it was approved at both the school and the Science and Technology Commission levels, is inseparable from Chang Haonan.
It was the latter who used his own results to prove that computational science can be applied to almost any engineering field.
So putting this hat on his head, Chang Haonan didn't feel any problem.
“Looking at it this way, we will have to cooperate in the future and shoulder the responsibility of promoting supercomputer applications.”
At this time, Chang Haonan has already thought of further places,< br>
“Nowadays, many ordinary colleges and universities are just following the trend. If they later find that they cannot use it, or use it poorly, it may have a negative impact on high-performance computers, and it happens that these schools are buying high-performance computers. The main players of domestic brands still need to let them really taste the benefits before they will continue to support our computer business." Li Jie was stunned after saying this.
As the head of Shuguang Group, he is not even as considerate as the 20-year-old Chang Haonan in front of him.
It’s no wonder that the other party was able to gain the trust of the Economic and Trade Commission and the Science and Technology Commission at such a young age.
Li Jie looked at Chang Haonan with more attention.
In fact, this cannot be blamed on the former's short-sightedness.
At the end of the 1990s, even around the world, it was a common phenomenon to emphasize products over services, let alone China, which was still very backward in terms of business model.
Chang Haonan's ability to naturally come up with this kind of train of thought was completely due to the impact of the times more than twenty years later.
"In this regard, it is indeed our oversight all along. It seems that Chang Gong needs more thought on your part."
Li Jie said solemnly:< br>
“Don’t worry, I will also report this matter to the group’s board of directors. There should be no resistance to investing in us.”
In short, the communication with the computing institute is also Very smooth.
In fact, on the way to the Computing Institute just now, Chang Haonan even thought about whether he could directly fish over Academician Ni Nanguang in advance.
But after careful consideration, the other party has not been fired by Dream Group after all, so the maneuverability is really not very good.
Besides, his most important task right now is to recruit people to develop the simulation modeling software, which cannot be regarded as the other party's area of expertise.
Let’s wait until the business scale expands to a larger area in the future.
So I didn’t mention it for the time being.
After finalizing all the major matters, Li Jie personally delivered Chang Haonan to the door.
"Chang Gong, I wish us a happy cooperation."
Although they only chatted for an afternoon, Chang Haonan could hear a sense of sympathy from the other party's tone.
“It’s a pleasure to cooperate, and I would like to thank Academician Li for his full support to our project team. I hope we can have more in-depth exchanges in the future.”
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After all the problems of money, personnel, staffing and equipment are solved, the only thing left is to start work.
Chang Haonan is not superstitious, and does not care about the date of the unveiling. He just wants to find a sunny day to do it.
As a result, I looked at the weather forecast and found that it will rain for the next week.
Finally we had to set the time for this Friday afternoon.
The location is naturally the main building of the supercomputing center.
If it rains, let it rain.
Anyway, it can be done indoors like last time.
After arranging the ceremony process requirements to the administrative staff below as usual, Chang Haonan sat in his office and finally got some time to relax.
Accidentally revitalizing China's supercomputing industry in advance, this is still a great sense of accomplishment for him.
At this point in the late 1990s, due to ecological reasons, it may have been difficult for China to compete with its American counterparts on the desktop, regardless of hardware or software.
But judging from the current situation, in the field of commercial and industrial machines, there is still a chance to occupy its own place.
As long as a trace of fire can be preserved, there will always be hope for continued development.
After all, a single spark can start a prairie fire.
(End of this chapter)