I wonder if Chen Shiqing thought of China's "father of space flight" Qian Xuesen when he went to Shenzhen to look for business opportunities with his latest ideas. At that time, Qian Xuesen returned to China to work, and the United States was willing to exchange the military strength of several divisions. Now, Chen Shiqing's "return" also makes Americans sigh: "There is no stronger and more profound way of technology transfer than a world-class expert leaving with all his knowledge."
The world computer community has a name for this academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences who was born in Fujian, grew up in Taiwan Province Province and studied and worked in the United States: "superstar", because Chen Shiqing is a real "superstar" in the field of supercomputers: he has world-class technology and experience and successfully developed the fastest supercomputer in the world.
He is a fan of supercomputers.
From 65438 to 0944, Chen Shiqing was born into an ordinary military family in Nanping, Fujian, and settled in "Recovering Taiwan Province Province" with his father the following year. Chen Shiqing, who grew up in Kaohsiung, is the best of the five brothers and sisters. After graduating from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Taiwan Province Provincial University for two years, I went to Villanova University in Philadelphia as a teaching assistant to study for a master's degree. His research project is how to design a large computer. At that time, Chen Shiqing was obsessed with computers, and his greatest happiness was to explore the mysteries of computers and pursue the ultimate speed of computers. During the three-month summer vacation, Chen Shiqing interpreted the functions of each part according to the instructions of the computer manual, and then realized them with software programs, thus simulating an IBM commercial mainframe computer with software.
1972, Chen Shiqing got a master's degree, and then went to the University of Illinois to study for a doctorate under the guidance of Professor David Cook, the chief designer of the first supercomputer of NASA. 1979 entered the company of Seymour Cray, the father of the world supercomputer, which was in a monopoly position in the supercomputer market at that time. Clay gave Chen Shiqing two choices: one was to research and develop the second generation products with him to ensure the capital and technology, but everything was subject to him; Second, Chen Shiqing set up another team to develop its own products, but there was no guarantee. Chen Shiqing chose the latter.
Wisconsin, where Clay's R&D center is located, is very cold, but the office without special heating equipment is very warm. As the supercomputer led and developed by Chen Shiqing is running and working, the hot air generated by the supercomputer can be quickly blown to every corner of the office.
He once laughed at himself: "Only a few crazy people will do these things all day." Chen Shiqing's efforts were directed at the system design of parallel computing, that is, how to make multiple engines work together. At that time, people were still used to single-engine computers. A revolutionary breakthrough has finally been achieved in the field of supercomputers: two engines pioneered by Chen Shiqing are started together and run in parallel, which greatly improves the operation speed. 1982, Cray X-MP/2, the world's first parallel vector supercomputer, was successfully developed, and a series of products he led earned the company more than 1 billion dollars. Large companies in petroleum, aviation, automobile, meteorology, chemical industry, materials and other industries all come to buy it, and Boeing uses it to solve problems such as airflow simulation calculation and airframe safety design. General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and other automobile companies use it in body design to reduce collision vibration and noise.
Return to China! Return to China!
Supercomputers are a necessary factor for the development of high technology and a competitive weapon for national defense and economy. Supercomputer technology is widely used in American military code decoding, space capsule and wind tunnel simulation experiments, the development of various new weapons such as hydrogen bombs, nuclear bombs, missiles, aircraft carriers, fighters, chariots, and other key American economic enterprises such as energy, aviation and automobiles. It can be said that the value of supercomputers is becoming more and more important and can be used as the key to measure a country's high-tech level. The importance of mastering this technology is self-evident.
With the continuous development of satellite, spacecraft, biology and other technologies in China, the demand for supercomputer systems and applications is becoming more and more urgent. 1970s, the highest speed of supercomputers in the United States was close to10 billion times per second, and China's "Yinhe No.1" didn't reach this speed until 1983. At that time, foreign countries imposed a high-tech embargo on Chinese mainland. At that time, Cray Super, which monopolized the field of supercomputing in the United States, was one of the products that China was absolutely forbidden to use in the United States, but its chief designer was from China. At that time, China not only had supercomputers, but also used hand-cranked computers.
As a native of China, Chen Shiqing had the idea of returning to China at this time. However, at this time, he is already the senior vice president and chief design engineer of the company, and even recognized as the heir of Mr. Clay, the father of supercomputers. Technically, he successfully developed a supercomputer with 128 engine.
From 65438 to 0999, Chen Shiqing met Hong Kong entrepreneur Weng. Weng Jiguo's father is a famous singer in Hong Kong. Weng Jiguo, who studied at Stanford University in the United States, followed his father's instructions to "develop national high technology" and found Chen Shiqing who was raising funds. The two hit it off.
Inspired by the design concept of supersonic aircraft engine turbine blades, Chen Shiqing developed the "Super Blade Computer" and became the earliest developer and patent holder of this design concept in the world. In 200 1 year, after the first generation of super blade computer was successfully developed in the United States, Chen Shiqing decided to return to China. "I understand very well that it is relatively easy to transfer a technology in the initial stage. Once it matures and becomes the most advanced technology in the world, it will be very difficult to transfer it, so I decided to let the technology take root, sprout and grow in China. "
In 2002, with Weng's support, Shenzhen Shell Technology Co., Ltd. was established to lead the new China team to continue to develop a new generation of super blade computers.
In 2004, Shenzhen Shell Ying Xing Technology Co., Ltd. successfully developed a super-blade computer with a theoretical operation speed of1000000000000000 times per second. Prior to this, the fastest computer in China was Dawning 4000A, which was successfully developed in June 2004, with an operation speed of 1 1 trillion times per second, ranking 17 in the world. The fastest computers in the world are 92 trillion times of the US Department of Energy, 6 1 trillion times of NASA, and 4 1 trillion times of the "Earth Simulator" of NEC Corporation of Japan.
China has reached the world leading level in this field.
Enjoy the "wonderful feeling" of innovation
Chen Shiqing has once again become the focus of media attention, People's Daily, new york Times and American World Journal. ...
Behind his concern, he shifted his focus to China, a high-tech blockade of China by the United States for decades. It is Chen Shiqing's world-class technology and experience, and the fastest supercomputer in the world successfully developed by China. Chinese supercomputers attract worldwide attention today and in the future.
Chen Shiqing often ponders a question: Scientific engineering is important, but what is more important is economy and people's livelihood. In the past ten years, his research and development focus has been to expand the design concept of supercomputers from scientific engineering to civil and commercial use.
The speed of the computer is infinite, and Chen Shiqing has a "wonderful feeling" about overcoming scientific and technological difficulties. He believes that even if the foundation is deep and the "past" is brilliant, once a new generation of products is developed, it is still necessary to give up, surpass and find a solution again.
"The United States will never be content to fall behind, and their strength is obvious to all. They fell behind Japan a few years ago because they reduced their investment in supercomputers after the end of the Cold War. " Chen Shiqing said: "They have caught up and regained the leading position in the world."
American supercomputer experts have said that Chen Shiqing's move to Chinese mainland will have a great impact on the US government's science and technology development officials. The New York Times's article also quoted the director of the Computing Center of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California as saying: "When Malaysian or Australian countries decide to buy supercomputers from China, such as Mr. Chen's company instead of IBM, China will really attract the attention of the world."
Talking about the breakthrough of China's development of information industry, Chen Shiqing said with confidence that China is becoming a global manufacturing center with mature capital structure and broad market. With the strong support of the government, using the world-leading super blade computer technology, we will develop an application platform for real-time collaborative operation, so that the "high-speed train" of China's information service will have the advantage of catching up! At present, Chen Shiqing works in Chinese mainland and only goes back to California to spend time with his family during holidays. 6 1 year-old, he is not old, leading his team to challenge the infinite speed of supercomputing.