Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 116 Fuxi Optical Brain
Hongguang Optoelectronics has produced people and products, and even Mr. Shao personally participated in the project, which greatly accelerated the research and development process of laser lithography machines, laser generators, soil nanotubes, and optical chips.

Mr. Shao's team provided a lot of valuable advice on the development of photonic transistor light logic and Chinese character operating system.

More than three months later, on August 8th.

After eight rounds of cycles, the laser lithography machine Nuwa No. 1 with a processing accuracy of [-] nanometer was officially finalized, and the new fiber lasers, silicon nanotubes, and photonic transistors all met the technical requirements.

Due to time constraints, the latest optical chip only contains 800 photonic transistors and related optical components, which is a medium-scale integrated chip at most.

But as long as research and development continues, large-scale integrated chips with more than 1000 photonic transistors, or even 100 photonic transistors integrated on a fingernail-sized chip are possible.

After all, nanotubes are smaller components than electronic transistors, less than 1 nanometer in diameter.

The time has come to assemble the first photonic computer.

With the unanimous agreement of the project team members, the first photonic computer assembled is a mainframe, which does not consider the size and energy consumption, but only pursues the computing speed.

With such a super photonic computer, if the calculation speed reaches the expected target, it will greatly promote the follow-up research and development work.

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9 month 3 day.

This day is the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese War and the World Anti-Japanese War. It is China's first statutory "Chinese People's Anti-Japanese War Victory Day".

On this day of great significance, Zhong Cheng's project team also ushered in a phased victory.

In the specially built large computer room on the nine-story basement of "Tianwaitian", the super photonic computer integrating 1024 optical chip processors has completed the final assembly work.

Even with the overtime work of Hongguang Optoelectronics, only more than 1000 new processors (formerly known as CPUs) and supporting optical chip memory, motherboards, and storage units were produced.

Compared with the tens of thousands of processors in the current supercomputer, it is much less.

More components are only expected to be available after mass production.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the leaders of Red Star Company, such as Mr. Deng and Mr. Wan, Director Qian, Mr. Luo, Mr. Shao of Hongguang Optoelectronics and other company leaders came to the computer room.

Looking at this first photonic computer, which is even more "wretched" than Nuwa-[-], everyone couldn't laugh or cry.

It is also a monster composed of a bunch of optical fiber lines and power supply lines, cooling devices, racks, and computer components, even more complicated and messy than Nuwa No. [-].

Zhong Cheng's explanation is that this super photonic computer has not yet been fully finalized, and will add components and enhance performance in the future, and it will be rushed, so it is still an "open structure", which is a bit ugly.

But it will be fixed in the future.

But the leaders headed by Mr. Deng don't care about this, they just look forward to the performance of this photonic computer.

Zhong Cheng walked to the main console and pressed the "power on" button. The various cooling devices of the photonic computer started to run first, followed by various indicator lights, and the computer appeared on the large display screen in front of the main console. Start the self-test prompt.

After the prompt in Chinese, a line of big characters "Welcome to the First Emperor Operating System" appeared on the screen, and a command input prompt was under the big characters.

"Hey!" Mr. Deng and other leaders gasped, "Have you really come up with a Chinese character operating system?"

Zhong Cheng said modestly: "Currently there is no visual window system, we are still developing, and now we only have to input commands directly."

"Show us, just crack a 10-digit alphanumeric code!"

Director Qian casually threw a difficult problem to Zhong Cheng. This is a calculation that takes the fastest supercomputer at present to calculate the result in 5 minutes.

用穷举法来破解密码是测试计算机运算速度最直观的方法，就是进行36的10次方次运算（36=10+26）。

Zhong Cheng entered the command on the screen: "Execution: Compare all combinations of numbers and letters from 0 to 36 to the 10th power with the set password XXXX one by one until a matching combination is found."

Then hit the Enter key, and the processor of the photonic computer starts to run.

The leaders exclaimed: "Are the underlying commands of the computer so simple and easy to understand?"

Zhong Cheng smiled, "No way, this is the advantage of the Chinese character operating system. It doesn't need a very strict and rigid command format, because the expressive power of Chinese is far stronger than that of alphabetic languages, and it can fuzzy analyze commands."

As soon as he finished speaking, the result appeared on the display screen. The photonic computer cracked the password in only 4 minutes.

"Hehe, I was lucky this time. I happened to find the password in advance. I have to try a few more times!"

Zhong Cheng typed on the screen: "Repeat the above operation 4 times!"

光子计算机连续进行了4次运算，分别是10分钟、6分钟、8分钟、7分钟。

Calculated by the longest time, the calculation speed of this photonic computer is already 50% of the fastest supercomputer in the world.

Of course, the specific calculation speed still needs special detection methods. Now it can only be estimated that the calculation speed is 500 trillion times per second, which exceeds the calculation speed of most current supercomputers.

Even the calculation speed of a single processor reaches about 5000 billion times per second, hundreds of times that of the current electronic chip processor (CPU).

The most important thing is that this photonic computer is still an original model, the integration of optical chips is still very poor, and there is huge room for improvement.

There was warm applause from the computers in the computer room, and Huaxia had achieved a real breakthrough in computer technology.

At present, the photonic computers that have come out at home and abroad are not photonic computers in the true sense.

However, electronic chips are used to control optical components, which can only be regarded as quasi-photonic computers, and their performance is still limited by the performance of traditional electronic silicon-based chips.

And this newly born photonic computer does not use an electronic transistor or an electronic chip at all. It is a photonic computer truly composed of photonic transistors and optical components.

This photonic computer fully exerts the overwhelming advantages of the speed of photons, that is, the speed of light, and the non-interference characteristics of light beams over semiconductor silicon devices.

The speed of photons is the speed of light, which is 30 kilometers per second, which is the fastest speed in the universe. The speed of information processing by laser beams can reach 1000 times that of existing semiconductor silicon devices.

Photons do not need to travel in wires like electrons do. Even when the light intersects, they will not affect each other, and they will not interfere with each other unless the interference conditions are not satisfied.

The non-interference characteristic of light beams enables photonic computers to open up many parallel information channels in a very small space, and the density is astonishingly large.

A prism with a section the size of a dollar coin has a transmission capacity many times greater than that of existing telephone cables around the world.

This is a breakthrough at the scientific level and a new milestone in the history of computer development.

Computers have gone through four stages of development from their inception to the present:

The first stage of development is the era of tube computers, from 1946 to 1956;
The second stage of development is the computer age of transistors, from 1956 to 1964;
The third stage of development is the computer era of integrated circuits and large-scale integrated circuits, from 1964 to 1970;
The fourth stage of development is the computer era of VLSI, from 1970 to the present.

Now on September 2015, 9, marked by the advent of this photonic computer, it can be foreseen that it is the beginning of the fifth stage of computer development.

Photonic computers are bound to replace electronic computers within a decade.

"Xiao Zhong, it's up to you to come up with a name for this photonic computer!" Mr. Deng looked at Zhong Cheng with a smile, and raised his hand to him.

After being polite for a few times, Zhong Cheng readily agreed.

In fact, he had already thought of the name. Computers are like industrial mother machines. They are basic tools for human society. The latter only play a role in industry, and computers penetrate into all aspects of human society.

He took the name of Nuwa for the industrial mother machine, and the photonic computer should be named Fuxi as a matter of course.

Fuxi, the ancestor of the humanities of the Chinese nation, one of the three emperors, is also the righteous god of blessing the country with Nuwa.

According to the changes of everything in the world, he invented divination and gossip, and created characters to end the history of "knotting events".

"Let's call it Fuxi Optical Brain!"

(End of this chapter)