Chapter 360 1 Accidentally revitalized China’s supercomputing industry

Perhaps because Chang Haonan's expression was a little tangled when he answered, Li Jie added:

"Chang Gong, don't worry too much. Considering your reputation in our Shuguang Group, I think it won't be a big problem to pass. This is just a process in accordance with the regulations."

This statement made Chang Haonan somewhat 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..."

When 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 really helped us a lot."

Li Jie nodded:

"Originally, supercomputers haven't received much attention, especially to be honest, the performance of the Sugon series of supercomputers is not ranked high in the world. In China, there are several related research institutes of the Academy of Sciences, and the Extreme A few state-owned enterprises are using it, and tens of millions of dollars are invested in it every year, 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. , just like being embarrassed to meet people..."

"At the beginning of this year, when I reported to the board of directors, I even considered giving up part of my shares in exchange for new investment because of the huge losses. However, only a few months later, the revenue pressure suddenly subsided..."

“So many schools use our domestically produced Dawn series machines?”

Chang Haonan was delighted after hearing this.

There is 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 a dimensionality reduction blow.

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 considered as quasi-domestic at best.

"Most schools are still not that wealthy."

Li Jie took a sip of water and continued to explain, "Schools with abundant funds such as Qinghua University, Yanda, Jinling, and Zhejiang Province can naturally develop higher-performance supercomputing platforms like your school, but some ordinary universities and even It is a vocational and technical school in a developed coastal area. It does not have such high demand or does not have that much money. Naturally, it will be more cost-effective to choose the server products of our Shuguang Group."

It can be heard from the former's tone that even if he only got some orders with a low profit margin, he was already quite satisfied.

Not only him, Chang Haonan is also quite satisfied——

This kind of butterfly effect has never been 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, now it seems that Shuguang Group has become somewhat famous.

In the original timeline, they did encounter financial difficulties as Li Jie mentioned, and in the end, after some operations, Dream Group took away 2000 million shares.

Although it does not play a decisive role, it is still a bit traumatic.

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 had already thought of places further away,

"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 the main buyers of domestic brands. We still have to let them really taste the benefits before they will continue to support our computer business in the future."

After saying this, Li Jie was stunned.

As the head of Shuguang Group, he is not even as considerate as the -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 90s, 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 we still need to put more thought into it, Chang Gong."

Li Jie said solemnly:

"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 was 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, and the maneuverability is really not very good.

Moreover, his most important task at the moment 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 some 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."

……

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 he doesn't 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, I 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's process requirements to the administrative staff below as usual, Chang Haonan sat in his office and finally got some time to relax.

He accidentally revitalized China's supercomputing industry in advance, which is still a great sense of accomplishment for him.

At this time point in the late 90s, 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 spark of fire can be preserved, there will always be hope for continued development.

After all, a single spark can start a prairie fire.