Guojie on the dawn: Choosing the right direction is more important than choosing a person

Guojie Academician (left one)

Recently, the National Intelligent Computer Research and Development Center and Shuguang Company jointly held the "Dawn" High-performance computer 20 anniversary of the birth of the event was held in Beijing. Guojie, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, reviewed the birth process of "Shuguang one", saying that from the dawn of the birth we have a revelation, that is, first of all to determine the main direction is the most important, the second is the election of people.

20 years ago, China's first SMP (symmetric multiprocessor) "dawning" came out with the support and impetus of the national "863" program. Dawn a computer, broke the foreign it giants to China's information technology monopoly. The third day of dawn, the western countries announced the lifting of the 1 billion computer embargo against China.

During the interview, Dr. Guojie revealed that the entire "Shuguang one" of the development process, Guojie led several people in the United States, the use of less than a year time, successfully developed a "dawn a", and the whole process of investment of only 2 million yuan. So Guojie is also called the father of the twilight.

Guojie stressed, "' Dawn a number ' significance is to explore a in the reform and opening-up environment, how to do scientific research, how to develop High-tech, and realize the industrialization of a road." The road went through and made. Today, when we look back 20 years ago to make this determination, I think there is a very important revelation is not to find someone first, or to set the direction first. The direction is right, maybe he is not the highest degree, but he only have this ideal can do things well. ”

Sun Huihui, director of the Institute of Computing, CAS, added there are still 2 reasons why China's computer can achieve such great achievements, and the first is to innovate and open the technical route, that is, in an open environment, open technology routes, through independent innovation to achieve value-added and win competition, the second is to grasp the combination and transfer.