Chapter 221 Teaching
After completing the signing ceremony, Duke was caught by President Liu and directly taught a group of experts, professors and scientific research backbones at the University of Science and Technology for three days of new operating system architecture design courses.
There is no way. President Liu has completed the establishment of a major national scientific research project at the operating system for more than a month. It is impossible for him to have no movement. The people from several units in the entire project team, including dozens of core personnel, as well as dozens of professors and doctors, and the surrounding developers, have exceeded 300 people.
This R&D team can also be increased at any time as needed. Principal Liu applied for the first phase of the state appropriation to reach 60 million yuan, which is enough to support mobilizing nearly 1,000 R&D personnel to participate in this project, because for schools and scientific research institutions, the basic salary of R&D personnel is all national financial appropriations, and the funds applied for by Principal Liu are already sufficient as materials and bonuses.
But the premise is that this project must have convincing results, otherwise Principal Liu will not be able to afford this person. So when he heard Duke came back, Principal Liu made a special trip to sit in Sal to catch Duke and ask about the progress.
Fortunately, Duke has really carefully studied this in the early stage. The architecture of the two major systems of desktop and server levels is basically clear. In fact, Kerry developed the first version of the prototype based on crashilinux. In terms of performance testing, these two versions of the prototype have extremely good performance.
Compared to Bill's plague to death, the performance of these two prototypes is much better with the same hardware performance. But there is a serious problem, that is, the compatibility is too far inferior to plague to death.
Whether it is software compatibility or hardware compatibility, since Kerry does not have more referenced software and hardware samples, there are not many considerations in terms of compatibility.
In principle, this linux-based operating system is not difficult to achieve binary compatibility with authentic linux, but it is very difficult to achieve binary compatibility with plague to death. Duke has a simple solution, that is, to use the form of a virtual machine and plague to death on the new operating system.
However, this not only has a major risk of infringement, but also gives people a very unprofessional feeling. It is not a big problem to use in military systems or governments, but it is completely unreliable for ordinary civilian use, because most ordinary software is now developed based on plague-to-death systems.
However, Duke couldn't solve all these problems by himself. He just exchanged his considerations on this operating system with Principal Liu. After describing them according to the two prototypes, Principal Liu became more and more moved. He is a real expert in this regard. He has a deep research on current mainstream operating systems, including supercomputers' operating systems, and of course he is very knowledgeable.
Duke's operating system architecture with a strong supercomputer style is just in line with Principal Liu's current concept, that is, the design idea of this system mainly consists of high reliability, high performance and high security, and compatibility as the supplement. The focus is to allow the country to have an operating system that can be controlled independently, thereby providing users of important national institutions with a safe computer software environment.
Under this premise, if this system can be binary compatible with applications under Linux, Principal Liu thinks it is acceptable.
So after listening to the idea of Duke's two prototype systems, Principal Liu was very satisfied. The server version can have massive memory and super CPU clusters of supercomputer architecture, realizing the unity of mainframes and medium-sized workstations. This feature is the most practical for institutional users.
Because if this step can be achieved, it means that many applications, such as databases, web servers, video servers and other resource consumption applications, can improve performance without changing the program without changing the program.
The desktop type supports a maximum of 256 CPUs, which fully takes into account the scalability of the system. According to the main CPUs with a maximum of 32 cores in 2014, this desktop system can also support a small workstation with up to 8 channels, which is sufficient for small server applications, let alone an ordinary desktop system.
Therefore, President Liu decided to consider developing a prototype system for verification based on these two concepts. As the main person in charge of system architecture design, Duke had to communicate his design ideas with the R&D backbone, so he offered a three-day architecture design course at the University of Science and Technology.
These experts and doctoral elites originally had some views on Duke. Although everyone now recognizes Duke as an expert in the fields of speech recognition and artificial intelligence, in the field of operating systems, please, a person is always limited in energy, and he is not a god after all.
At the beginning of the lecture, these experts disagree, but as Duke made a summary and went straight to the topic, these experts and doctoral elites realized that geniuses really exist in this world. They are all experts who have a lot of research on operating systems, otherwise they would not have joined this national major special project.
So when Duke talked about design ideas, layered and other specific architecture designs, he immediately found that this was not a repetition of what everyone knew in the past, but a new system architecture. People are more deadly than people. After listening to Duke's lecture, he found that his research for more than ten or twenty years was wasted, and it was not on the same level as the young man who talked about on the stage.
Those who are more optimistic are very excited, and they feel that they may really have the hope of creating their own things this time, instead of simply packaging Linux to deal with the top fraud in project funds. Because in addition to the lowest hardware operation architecture, you can also see some shadows of the Linux system, the core application layer is a brand new distributed design.
Compared to Linux, the system architecture provided by Duke is more distributed, and it is completely aimed at the current trend of multi-cpu and multi-core hardware systems, which is very easy to fully exert system performance. Three days passed by. Although these experts and backbones were still a little unsatisfied, Duke really couldn't afford to waste so much time.
After obtaining the rock samples of the natural nuclear reactor, Duke was anxious to return to the United States to solve the mystery of the natural nuclear reaction principle and become his last achievement at MIT. Then he turned around and left, putting a perfect end to his days at MIT, and thus turned around and began to sprint for his career with all his might.
Chapter completed!