Hammer of Technology

This was probably a surprise.

According to the foundation's plan, the results of the March Award will be announced in December every year, and it is indeed during the review period, but the selection process is different from the general award selection process.

Because it is the first session, the candidates for all the awards are invited by the March Foundation to nominate some well-known scholars in various fields and relevant scientific research institutions in the form of emails, but the final list of nominations is made by March through the algorithm A second decision is made to decide.

The following selection process is more closed.

There is no voting procedure. After the scientific research achievements of all candidates are described, they will be evaluated by non-related experts in the industry through a fee-based evaluation method. At the same time, March will also model and score the research results of all candidates based on simulations. Finally, a comprehensive answer was obtained.

In other words, the final winners of the March Award, before the active announcement in March, even the committee for establishing the award does not know who will eventually get it, and it is impossible to gather this hot topic...

loss!

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357 busy

"Ning Wei, this child...is still very clear-headed!"

"Yes."

"By the way, why did the media over there suddenly make such an announcement? Is this trying to flatter you?"

"It's not enough to kill him. The main thing is that Ning Wei frightened him. It's probably showing goodwill."

"Release kindness?"

"Yes, the previous incident made some media more passive. Several large companies fell into a relatively passive situation in terms of products because of the sudden exposure of loopholes. This also made many people dissatisfied. CNN fired the online media within a week. Two director-level senior managers of the department responded to Facebook and Twitter's joint blocking of official media accounts. As for other media, they were probably greeted as well."

"Heh... It seems that the future is dominated by young people. By the way, I heard that he is now researching desktop-level CPU products?"

"Yes, Huawei has specially established Ningsi Laboratory to cooperate. In addition, Huawei Precision Holdings Group cooperated with Huawei's 2012 Laboratory through its subsidiary Tianbang Technology, and each invested 50.00% to establish Silicon Communication Times Technology Co., Ltd. In the development of the master control chip for smart cars; Huaqiang Software, Galaxy Baize, Huawei Euler and the Intelligent Frontier Central Laboratory are negotiating to create a domestically-made full-coverage operating system ecosystem. In addition..."

"Stop, there is no need to report on these commercial market cooperations for the time being. We will talk about it after they have finished the talks and have achieved results. All departments should do a good job in guiding the work and give sufficient support according to the proposed policies. It is the media. Ning Wei has a good saying, we don’t need others to affirm the achievements of our scientific and technological workers, the most important thing is to give front-line scientific research workers a quiet environment to do research.”

"Ok!"

"By the way, the little guy is going to be an academician, right? What does the committee mean?"

"Most of them agree, and those who have reservations are not easy to mention. After all, Ningwei's achievements are there, and those bigwigs in the academic world who haven't spoken out for a long time have spoken out in private to stand for him. .”

"Well, I'm sorry to mention it! In the next meeting, you can help me to talk to everyone. Don't be stubborn. Doing scientific research does not depend on age. The younger generation can produce results, and there is an exceptional promotion channel. Good thing. Not only Ning Wei, but also other young people who can make the same achievements should dare to be promoted. As long as young people who have made outstanding contributions in China's medium and long-term scientific and technological development plan outline, they still have to pick up the burden. "

"Yes!"

"Since there is no problem with the evaluation of academicians this year, let's go further. The last academic committee member, at Xiaoning's level, will make some scientific research suggestions in the areas he is good at, and give some academic consultation and evaluation. No one will. Opinion? And the committee has younger blood, which can also have positive significance for the reform and development of the scientific research system. We should listen to the voices of young scientific researchers and understand their ideas and difficulties."

"Okay, I will communicate your suggestion to the academic committee as soon as possible."

"Well, that's it for now, next topic."

……

"...This design feels like it will make the instruction set bloated. I think we have to solve this problem in other ways. For example, the Apple M1 uses the ARM reduced instruction set. Its benefits are obvious, such as high efficiency and good flexibility. Developers can more flexibly deploy and realize highly customized functions, and the execution efficiency of software and the low power consumption of CPU can be maximized."

"But everyone should pay attention to the disadvantage of the simplified instruction set. It is difficult to have the ability of universal applicability after being simplified. A high degree of customization will greatly increase the adaptability cost for future market development. Unless you have the energy to Different CPUs are designed for all devices to meet China's differentiated market needs. Therefore, the idea of ​​this instruction set is to take an intermediate value between X86 and ARM."

"On the one hand, we need to pursue high performance and high versatility, and we need to be open enough to be accepted by the market; on the other hand, although we can appropriately give up the high-customization features of the simplified instruction set, we must retain its single-core execution efficiency, and at the same time There is also a trade-off between the two. I dare not say that this set of instructions is the most perfect, but I think that under the existing conditions, I have done my best to balance the two.”

"I will name this instruction set Njsy instruction set. I hope you can read the complete code of these instruction sets as soon as possible. Next, I will put forward some personal ideas on the chip architecture and design. First of all, everyone is considering the CPU design plan. At this time, we must fully consider the technical characteristics of the three-dimensional silicon through tube. At the three-dimensional level, we can carry out the SOC layout more elegantly and maximize the three-dimensional advantages."

"My suggestion is that in addition to the first, second, and third-level caches, we should design a unified memory bank, so that some key information does not need to be serially communicated through the motherboard connection, and the data exchange can be completed directly in the unified memory bank. To solve the problem of latency and limited access bandwidth; take advantage of three-dimensional advantages, stack different cores and caches on different three-dimensional levels, and ensure the exchange between cores, between cores and caches, and between cores and memory at one time speed, while GPU cores and CPU cores share memory."

"Secondly, integrate neural network computing and bionic chips into the chip, and give it a dedicated computing channel and level. I have already reflected this aspect in the design of the instruction set..."

……

Ning Wei was facing the screen, explaining his thoughts and requirements to Ning Si's core combat team little by little.

Throughout October and November, after working day and night, my own instruction set was finally released.

Although it has not been tested in practice, the entire instruction set system has been subjected to various digital simulations for several days in March, which proves the scientific nature of this instruction set.

Of course, for Ningsi Lab and its partners, everyone is probably still in a state of confusion...

Mainly it was too fast.

For these core personnel, everyone knows that Ningwei spoke in mid-September under the influence of various factors to support the research of independent instruction sets, instead of building instruction sets for new chips by purchasing or cooperating with open source platforms.

After making the decision, it is said that Ning Wei started to design the instruction set, and Huawei started to build the Ning Si laboratory. By the end of November, it took two and a half months, and the Ning Si laboratory had just completed preparations for about a month, and the core Many people in the team were supported by the laboratory.

If you use social recruitment and poach people, this time is obviously not enough, and school recruitment is even more impossible. Without several years of work experience, it is impossible to directly assign to such a department that directly produces results.

To be able to complete the formation of the core team of Ningsi Laboratory in more than a month, I have to thank the partners for their help.

However, everyone has just spent a month getting used to it. When everyone started to gear up for some instruction set ideas provided by Ning Wei before, this meeting made everyone's eyes widen.

This person actually completed the instruction set single-handedly?

No, it can't be said that it is a single-handedly. After all, there is still full support from the March Smart Platform, but to be honest, the authority given to Ning Si by the March Smart Platform is also very high. At least compared to other projects in the laboratory, Ning Si Lab The submitted calculation requests and digital simulation tasks can often be prioritized. If the calculation requests and digital simulation tasks are repetitive, even if they are rejected by the system, the recent calculation results will be provided as a reference simultaneously.

So everyone is very confident.

I had shouted a slogan early on, and I must assist Professor Ning to complete the architecture and compiler of the new instruction set within half a year.

Really, this is a slogan used internally to beat chicken blood!

Of course, the instruction set here is to be used in the design of the new [-]D silicon-through-silicon tube CPU, but it is different from those coquettish products that have mostly been eliminated by the market. The entire instruction set and compiler must show excellent performance. Where the popular instruction sets in the market are different, the underlying design must be better than the market-tested instruction sets in some aspects, so half a year is not a particularly exaggerated period.

Similarly, everyone also needs this period of time to adapt to the rhythm, and at the same time wait for the complete tool chain provided by the minimalist EDA...

However, I never expected that everyone's slogans were loudly shouted, but Ning Wei had already completed the instruction set independently, half a year?It didn't exist, it only took about two months and nine days after all the calculations...

So the auxiliary work should probably become learning and understanding.

At this time, everyone probably experienced the feeling that Yu Xingwei assisted Ning Wei in designing the turbulence algorithm.

When gearing up and preparing to show off their talents, they finished everything first.

Even at this stage, the minimalist EDA design tool for [-]D silicon-through-tube large-scale CPU is still under intense production, and the current version of the tool chain is not complete.

This is probably enough time for everyone to study...

For the researchers in Ning Si's laboratory, the mood is probably extremely complicated.

Of course, for Huawei and its partners, it must be extremely pleasant.

The faster the R&D speed, the less money is invested. Not to mention anything else, there are always more than 700 front-line R&D personnel in Ningsi Laboratory, plus nearly [-] people in logistics, administration, finance, etc. .

Purchasing various insurance and employee benefits, based on the average monthly expenditure of 40K per person, is 4000 million per month. Completing the scheduled tasks half a year in advance means that 2.4 million in research and development costs can be saved in terms of manpower expenditure alone.

From this point, we can see the value of Ningwei.

Of course, from Ningwei's point of view, he has nothing to do.

He can let go of the CPU production and design chain behind the entire [-]D silicon through tube, but he is duty-bound in the initial field of chip instruction set and architecture design.And in the short term, this matter really cannot be completely let go and handed over to others.

However, he is still very busy whether it is in the short or medium term.

First of all, in September next year, he will formally lead the direct PhD students under him, which first requires him to spare some energy.

Secondly, in September, the children in Ning’s class are sophomores. Although he does not need to directly substitute for the class, he has to start paying attention to the children’s grades. After all, it is the sophomore stage and there are competitions to participate in. His scientific research training plan has also officially launched, and he has to find a way to give more guidance to his few proud students...

In addition, he must also participate in some activities at the end of the year.

In mid-November, the academician supplementary list, which had been brewing for half a year, was officially announced. Ning Wei was among them, and was selected as the youngest mathematics academician in China. In Tian Yanzhen's words, he had the title of academician on his head. In the next few meetings, he Certainly cannot be pushed away.

At the same time, Ning Wei was directly selected as a researcher of the Institute of Mathematics and Systems Science under the Huaxia Academy of Sciences. The purpose of the establishment of the institute was to solve major mathematical problems in China's strategic needs, and he could not refuse.Although no task has been assigned to him for the time being, everyone knows that Ningwei is currently working on an instruction set project, and there will definitely be more things in the future.

In addition, Ning Wei also received a notice.The academic committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has begun to discuss the absorption of Ning Wei as an official member...

Lu Changbin was probably the happiest when he heard the news.

After all, in the future, no matter whether you can get support for various project selections or whether you want to get national key laboratories, outstanding young scholars, Changjiang Scholars, various scientific research awards, etc., you will have to deal with experts from the academic committee.

Ning Wei became a member of the academic committee, plus his own influence and achievements. If Tian Yanzhen's influence is matched with Tian Yan, basically no one will openly oppose his opinions in the field he is good at.

But in fact, Ningwei is not very interested in reviewing other people's projects.Because of the principle of matching powers and responsibilities, he has to devote more time and energy to understand those projects before reviewing other people's projects, and then give his own evaluation.This also takes some energy.

So Ning Wei originally wanted to refuse, but Lao Tian had a deep talk with Ning Wei, suggesting that Ning Wei's classmate could play a great role in this position.For example, saving a lot of money that may be wasted, because he is still young and independent in scientific research, he does not need to give face to anyone, which can largely allow him to give pertinent opinions.

Especially when he joined the committee this time, he was strongly recommended by many big bosses who silently supported him behind his back, so Ning Wei should seize this opportunity and so on.

Director Tian came to persuade him personally, which also meant that he couldn't refuse.

In addition, the March Awards will be announced for the first time next month, and he wants to stand on the platform; he has been cooperating with many units at the end of the year, and they have sent invitations to him, hoping that he can show up. Most importantly, he was originally It is planned to achieve a basic understanding of various theories at the physical level this year, and to determine the best research entry point, but the progress is still very slow, let alone choose the best entry point, that fragmentary time is not even enough for him to The entire physical system is roughly sorted out.

This is very worrying.

It's hard for him to wait until next September when school starts, and still hide in the laboratory to study physics knowledge, and it won't sound good if it spreads.

Think about it, with a group of direct PhD students who are sincerely studying mathematics with him, with a high salary and still worrying about choosing a starting point for physics research every day, it is somewhat embarrassing.

But if the research entry point can be settled before then, and it is better to produce some results, then you will be much more confident.

So Ning Wei is also very sad. In order to get the instruction set and compiler, he worked almost day and night. Liu Wei and Jiang can testify to this, especially Liu Wei. After all, Jiang is not convenient to prove these things thing……

In addition, Ning Wei also plans to complete the wedding ceremony with Jiang in June next year. Although Jiang meant that everything should be kept simple, Ning Wei still thinks that Jiang should have a passable wedding. After all, he has no intention of getting married. Married twice.According to Ning's father and Ning's mother's idea, this wedding banquet will have to be held three times. Ning Wei and Jiang's hometown must be indispensable, but Ning Wei's main activity track is now in the capital, so it is not easy to save here.

Things are piled up one by one, which really makes time seem particularly precious.

Just like now, the work of the instruction set is finally completed temporarily, and the chip design work of the next stage has not officially started, and a bunch of things have come to the door.

"Really, Brother Liu, it would be great if 1 minute can be turned into 120 seconds in the past two years. The time is too fast. By the way, can you help me push the meeting at the Academy of Sciences next week?"

"This summary meeting should be able to be postponed, but the work plan meeting in January next year and the congress in May must be attended."

"Let's talk about next year's affairs next year. The list of March Smart Awards will be released next month. My idea is that the award ceremony will also be scheduled for March next year."

"Professor Ning, these questions are easy to talk about. You'd better decide where to spend the Chinese New Year this year?"

"Just in the capital, this year is a bit busy, go back and waste time, it should be fine to pass this year."

"Well, that's fine, I'll arrange it later."

……

Now, apart from the duties of bodyguard and driver, Liu Wei is becoming more and more like a secretary.

After all, this one is easier to use. For some meetings that he doesn’t want to attend, Liu Wei can help Ningwei to reject them more efficiently. If Liu Wei’s side is not easy to reject the meeting efficiently, it is probably the meeting that Ningwei should attend. .

From Liu Wei's attitude, he can quickly screen and plan the itinerary. Naturally, he should make good use of it. In addition, if he wants to travel far, the transportation needs Liu Wei to arrange the itinerary connection, so this is not too much.

As for what Ning Wei usually studies, Liu Wei will not care about it.

"Work harder this year, let's finish everything, and it will be easy when the Chinese New Year is next year. By the way, according to your customs, should you go to the man's house or the woman's house in the first year of marriage?"

"Professor Ning, there are a lot of things at the end of the year. I guess next year your duties will increase, and you will only be busier. To be honest, I think you don't care about customs. Next year, you will directly bring the two families to the capital for the New Year , is justified."

After hearing this, Ning Wei subconsciously raised his head to look at Liu Wei. Suddenly, he felt that the computer in front of him was not good...

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358 Momentum demand

For Ning Wei, thinking about the future is a very serious matter.

He has always been adhering to the style of handing over troublesome things and only focusing on the key points. Even if he gave up many benefits because of this, this should have made him live easily, but the reality is that he still feels more and more Time is running out.

Especially after talking with Liu Wei, Ning Wei felt that the future was gloomy.

This once made him sleepless at night...

"What's wrong with you today? You seem worried?"

Under the orange light in the bedroom, classmate Jiang snuggled up to Ning Wei, buried her head on the man's shoulder, and asked softly.This action was strongly requested by Ning Wei, so even though he was used to the intimacy, Jiang's cheeks were still a little blush...

"Hey... I finished the design of the chip instruction set today. I should have celebrated it, but I suddenly found that I always have a feeling that I will do more and more things now, and I don't know when this kind of life will end." Ning To sigh.

That is, when facing Jiang Chenshuang, he was able to express his emotions so unscrupulously. If it were anyone else, even Yu Xingwei and Lu Dongyi, they would probably only think that he was in Versailles.Of course, this can't be blamed on others, after all, he has too many criminal records.

"But don't you enjoy it? If you are really allowed to relax and bid farewell to the laboratory, and no one comes to ask for your opinions, you will probably be more worried, right?" Jiang raised his head and asked back.

"It seems to make sense..." Ning Wei thought for a while, but suddenly felt unable to refute.

Maybe he still has a little bit of vanity. Although he is very busy, but when he thinks about it carefully, the feeling of being valued is actually not bad.It seems meaningless for him to bid farewell to his current life and become a leisurely and happy little rich man.

Especially when I think that I may not have the opportunity to see someone like Pat Kelsinger step into his office with which foot, I feel that everything is boring, so I still have to work!

"So you should do your own things well first. My dad told me before that as long as you can do things when you should do things and enjoy blessings when you should enjoy blessings in your life, you will be fulfilled. It's a pity..." Jiang's voice I became sad, probably because I thought of my father who didn't make it to the age of happiness.

"Yes, yes, my wife is right. Let me think about it. It is almost December now. You will graduate in June next year. We should do what we should do!"

"Huh? Ning Wei, don't make trouble, hey, don't make trouble..."