A feeling of returning from an Intel visit in Shanghai

On the afternoon of June 23, November 2, on the way to Shanghai, I sat in the back row of Academician Ni guangnan. I didn't want to talk to him about the "black screen" on the plane, so I intentionally didn't say anything (no greeting), and kept getting off the plane in Shanghai (he did not see me when he boarded the plane ).

On the evening of November 2, it was interesting to see from the recording site of the "Brainstorm" program of Shanghai No. 1 financial company on the interpretation of the "black screen" event. Opposing party: Ni guangnan, Cao Shen, Fang Xingdong; supported party: Yuan Meng, Tang Jun, Lu bowang; judged party: 3 people, I only know Professor Lu benfu; program host: Also surnamed Yuan. Nearly 100 million audience members. From the perspective of the voting by the audience, we can see that the "public" has given a lot of tolerance to the "black screen" of Microsoft, which may be more appropriate ).

Early in the morning of October November 3, I rushed to the headquarters of Intel (China), which is located in zizhu technology park, Minhang District, Shanghai (Open Source Technology Center ). I walked straight to the office building with an intel logo and was blocked by a small "Automatic Revolving Door" outside. There was a lake of artificial water around, And the scenery was very pleasant. Later, Feng Xiaoyan, the OTC department manager, came out and picked me up from Intel's "backdoor. Manager Feng Xiaoyan and four OTC technical leaders introduced me to the Linux kernel and hardware drivers, Quick Start, virtualization technology and software testing work. Later, they visited the office area and laboratory, many misunderstandings have been eliminated. Intel's Shanghai headquarters has more than one thousand people, and only OTC has more than 100 people (excluding 50 people in Beijing). It is very powerful (generally speaking, there are indeed "Technical Experts ). It turns out that the world famous computer quickly started a major innovation in technology, not limited to R & D personnel of intel department, Shanghai OTC engineers also participated in this work. This visit made me understand the fact that Intel's technical contribution to Linux is an important factor in the global success of Linux. In fact, many hardware drivers come from Intel. Now, we can say that the hardware driver problem of Linux has been basically solved, especially after kernel 2.6.27 was released. We can also say that the world's large PC manufacturers (HP and Dell) have accepted Linux, and Lenovo is no exception. It took nearly ten years to say this.

Manager Feng of Intel (China) Shanghai OTC visited their "lab ". As soon as I enter "lab", I am dizzy. In the server room, countless servers are buzzing and the speech is unclear. In the office area of "lab", there are more machines than people, which is dazzling. I am most interested in the fact that there are two computers running on a virtual Windows Operating System Based on Linux (Red Hat ).
Migration ("Hot Transfer"), that is, the "virtual machine application" on a machine"
Almost instantly (1 ~ 2 seconds) can be transferred to another virtual machine, and the "virtual machine application" can continue to run on another computer. We have made it clear that with the help of this function of virtual machines, we can put an "application" on a computer suspected to be faulty ", quickly transplanted to another machine without terminating the program running the "application". Once the machine is rectified, the "application" will be transplanted continuously. I think this technology may be very useful (critical) for the so-called "cloud computing ).

Due to the time relationship (catch the plane), there was no in-depth communication regarding the self-starting USB flash drive. However, I reached an agreement with Manager Feng of intel. I will contact him via email and he will ask for help. I am very satisfied with this. Meet me, just a friend!