You are a black technology boss, you didn't say it sooner!

Let's not talk about how excited Jiang Fu's words made CP fans, and how confused the two CP fans were... For those who really pay attention to the field of graphics, tonight's award ceremony is incredible.

Fire gets an award, ok is normal.

Fire won two awards, which is justified.

fire took half of the awards?Although unexpected, it is also reasonable.

However, the Special Practitioner Award was awarded to two people as an exception, and one of them was the little-known Little Transparent... No one has ever seen this kind of operation.

Fire is famous anyway, who is this Jiang Fu?

This award is given to industry leaders who have made many contributions and have great influence over the years. Jiang Fu does not meet the award criteria anyway.

How can a person who has never heard of it get the Practitioner Special Award?What did he do to make the organizing committee make such an exception for him?

Many people had the same question in their hearts, including Lu Xiaochan.

Lu Xiaochan is also an exhibitor of this conference. She participated in a special VR exhibition, crowded with many VR small and studios, very unremarkable.

This morning, before the official opening of the exhibition hall, she and her colleagues came to the exhibition hall early from the staff passage to make preparations in advance.

When everything was properly arranged and there was still some time before the opening of the exhibition hall, Lu Xiaochan really broke away and walked along the staff passage from the VR exhibition area to the independent exhibition area.

Deep space has a separate large exhibition hall here.

To her disappointment, the deep space exhibition hall was not open to ordinary staff, and she couldn't get in even with a work card.

And the opening hours are later than others. Others open at 09 o'clock, but Deep Space opens at 30:[-].

Lu Xiaochan casually strolled around the independent exhibition area, and when she reached the gate of Envida, it happened to be in time for the opening of the museum.

Because she already knew that Nvidia's new product was related to AI, she was not very interested and turned to leave.

But at this moment, out of the corner of his eye, he saw two familiar figures.

Lou Qingyan and Jiang Fu walked over from not far away, the former was talking, the latter listened carefully, nodding from time to time.The appearance of both of them is quite eye-catching, Lu Xiaochan is not cute CP, but she also thinks that they are very suitable.

After watching the two of them enter the Envida venue, she struggled and followed them in.If given the chance, she would really like to make friends with Jiang Fu, to see how talented this young man who is less than 25 years old can make SIGGRAPH make an exception to award a special award.

This year, Envida's venue layout is biased towards artificial intelligence, and the content of pure cg is much less than in previous years.Most of the people gathered inside the venue were technicians, and even some people who didn't understand graphics at all came here just because they heard that Nvidia was going to release a new chip.

Although the museum has just opened, but there are so many personalities, Lu Xiaochan lost it if she didn't pay attention.

She felt a little strange, and asked the passers-by next to her: "Is there any special event today?" The passer-by said, "At 08:30 this morning, Envida is going to release a new product."

Lu Xiaochan suddenly realized, thinking that he just stayed to take a look at this year's new GPU, and after watching it, the deep space venue opened.

There is a circular sunken stage in the middle of the venue, where everyone sits down after walking around.

At 08:30, the press conference started on time.

The person in charge of Nvidia's product department calmly walked to the middle of the sunken stage, where a circular high platform stood.

Standing in front of the high platform, he waved one hand, and suddenly there was a scene with a very high-tech sense in the field - I saw countless small blue digital streams rising from the platform, converging into the midair, compressing and deforming, shallowly turning into A tiny chip.

The audience roared in amazement.

Lu Xiaochan couldn't help but sigh, now that the technology is getting more and more advanced, the holographic display can be made so delicate.

The press conference lasted for about an hour. Halfway through, the others were all amazed, but Lu Xiaochan was on pins and needles.

There is only one product in this conference, and everyone's surprises, praises, and questions revolve around this one product.But this is an AI chip, not a graphics chip.

Seeing the person in charge talking freely below, she seemed to be dreaming back to August 20, 1998 years ago. In such an atmosphere, Nvidia opened a new chapter in computer graphics with a GPU.

Today, 20 years later, at the same press conference of Nvidia, everyone around us is talking: "The future of GPU is general computing!"

The difference between a GPU chip and a CPU is that the former has powerful parallel computing capabilities and is good at a large number of boring and repetitive calculations.If the CPU is doing intellectual work, the GPU is doing hard work.

Because graphics rendering requires a lot of boring and repetitive calculations, chip designers designed this parallel computing structure and creatively added rendering pipelines to it, and the first generation of GPU was born.

There are two most important structures in the GPU, the rendering pipeline is responsible for deployment, and the general computing is responsible for completing the calculation.Originally, general-purpose computing was born for rendering, but today, people are throwing rendering aside and shouting: "The future of GPU is general-purpose computing."

"The future of GPU is general computing." The person in charge of the press conference repeated, "We said this in 2007. Many people think that Nvidia is very lucky to have today, and fortunately caught up with AI's impact on general computing capabilities. Therefore, it can take the opportunity to transform. But in fact, as early as 2007, the company proactively noticed the powerful general-purpose computing capability of the GPU, and believed that this capability should not only be applied to graphics.”

"Everyone, since then, Nvidia has been committed to tapping the general-purpose computing potential of GPU. As early as 2007, we boldly predicted that in some areas sensitive to computing power, GPU will have better performance than CPU .Now the artificial intelligence wave is coming, proving us right!"

"In the research of AI chips, Nvidia has a solid accumulation of ten years. Is it just because of luck that we can usher in today's opportunity? No, opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared, and we have prepared for them. It was prepared for ten years."

The person in charge raised his hands and said: "The past of GPU is graphics, and the future of GPU is computing!"

As soon as the words fell, the audience applauded thunderously.

Because everyone stood up, Lu Xiaochan had to stand up and applaud, but she always felt unnatural in her heart.

"Miss Sister's expression is not natural," a clear voice with a smile suddenly came from beside her, "Aren't you infected by such an exciting scene?"

Lu Xiaochan replied subconsciously: "I just don't like this statement very much."

"Huh? You think he's wrong?"

"That's right, there is no problem at all, but I don't like it. If everyone studies general computing, who will study rendering? Is it only important for artificial intelligence, and graphics are not important?"

Only then did she turn her head to look, and found out in horror that the person standing beside her talking to her turned out to be Lou Qingyan!

"You, you, this..." She stuttered.

Another person next to Lou Qingyan said, "Let's go?"

This person is Jiang Fu whom Lu Xiaochan really wants to know.

Lou Qingyan smiled at her, walked to Jiang Fu's side, "Let's go, this press conference is not interesting."

"Wait!" She rushed forward, "Hello, Mr. Jiang! Nice to meet you! I'm Lu Xiaochan, who works in VR!"

Jiang Fu nodded at her and didn't say much.

"Where are you going?" Lu Xiaochan kindly invited, "I'll go to the exhibition in the deep space later, why don't we go together? It's kind of nice to see fellow villagers abroad."

Lou Qingyan laughed, "Jiang Fu is originally from Shen Kong's family, so what can we do at our exhibition?"

Jiang Fu glanced at him and nodded with certainty.

"It seems so," Lu Xiaochan scratched her head, "How about I invite you to go shopping?" She thought to herself, if Lou Qingyan has gone, Jiang Fu will definitely follow.

Jiang Fu shook his head and pulled Lou Qingyan's arm, "Thank you for your kindness, let's go first."

"Wait," Lou Qingyan said, "then let's go together."

Jiang Fu: "?"

Lou Qingyan gave him a look, and the latter had no choice but to accept the cruel fact that two people turned into threesome.

Not only that, Lou Qingyan and the young lady walked in front, leaving him behind alone.

Jiang Fu walked behind with deep eyes, watching their backs and listening to their conversation.

Lou Qingyan said: "Miss, do you hate artificial intelligence? But everyone says that the future of graphics is to be combined with artificial intelligence."

Lu Xiaochan said: "This is the word I hate the most. The meaning of artificial intelligence is to replace manpower, to change the way of cg production, but not to improve the quality of cg. The most fundamental problem in graphics - how to make animation more natural, how to make physics The simulation is more realistic, how to make the non-realistic rendering more stylish...there are fewer and fewer people studying these, and everyone is studying deep learning."

This is also the reason why she wanted to know Jiang Fu. The breakthroughs in graphics over the years basically revolved around artificial intelligence, and the one that made some achievements in fundamental issues was the terminal engine. The fire is far away in the sky, so it is good to ask Jiang Fu to answer his questions.

After she finished speaking, she found that Lou Qingyan could understand everything, and even looked at him in surprise.

Lou Qingyan said: "Miss, did you play games before studying VR?"

"Hey, you know?"

"I have played your game. You have won several international awards and have a bright future. Why don't you continue to do it?"

"I'm working on it," she said with a smile, "it's just that it's a bit difficult to make independent games in China, so I'm making VR games for the world."

"I see, I hope to have the opportunity to play in the future."

"We have a booth in the VR exhibition area, you can go to play now," Lu Xiaochan warmly invited, "How about I take you to play after shopping here?"

"Okay." Lou Qingyan readily agreed.

The conversation was interrupted because Jiang Fu suddenly pushed forward and started talking with Lu Xiaochan.

She happened to have a lot of questions to ask Jiang Fu, so she immediately ignored Lou Qingyan.

Walking to the deep space exhibition hall like this, Lu Xiaochan looked forward and said angrily: "I should have come to line up earlier, but now it is full of people."

"It doesn't matter," Lou Qingyan pointed at Jiang Fu, "he can go through the staff passage."

The exhibition hall of Deep Space this time is called the Twin Exhibition Hall. The building looks like two hemispheres from the outside. Visitors enter from one sphere and exit from the other.

According to the chairman of SIGGRAPH, who couldn’t bear the spoilers, the reason why Deep Space was arranged in the Gemini exhibition hall this time is because the latter has prepared two completely different exhibitions, with one on each side of the two big balls.

Lu Xiaochan has already begun to look forward to whether the twin exhibition halls will be special effects plug-ins and end-point engines respectively. She likes these two projects very much.

In addition, there was something she didn't dare to ask in front of Jiang Fu. She especially wanted to know what was the project that won him the SIGGRAPH Practitioner Special Award in one fell swoop.

With excitement and apprehension, she followed the two through the staff passage and entered the gate into the first exhibition hall.

Then, she froze.

This... is the exhibition hall?

I saw that the first hemisphere exhibition hall that came into view was quite different from other exhibition halls. There were no fancy furnishings in it, only rows of long tables filled with computers, and comfortable large seats in front of the computers.

This……

Isn't tm just an Internet cafe? ? ?

Walking through it, Lu Xiaochan discovered the difference—a set of VR glasses was placed in front of each computer.

The first batch of tourists who entered the venue were all sitting in front of the computer wearing VR glasses, not knowing what they were looking at.

She turned around and saw that Lou Qingyan and Jiang Fu had already chosen their positions.She just picked a place to sit down.

Putting on the VR helmet, Lu Xiaochan thought to herself: I want to see what kind of mystery you are playing!

The program detects the face and runs automatically. After wearing the helmet, the adjustment interface pops up. Lu Xiaochan adjusts it with ease, and clicks to confirm with the VR handle.

The screen went dark.

First up is the logo animation.

In the dark and huge space, Lu Xiaochan found that shining stars gradually jumped out of her body. They converged and shrunk, filling the entire space, turning this place into a bright galaxy.

The logo of Fanxing.com appeared in the galaxy—a circular pattern composed of three anthropomorphic stars holding hands, and a line of words was reflected under the logo.

Star platform

Everyone's worth shines like the stars in the sky.

The stars began to surge and recede towards Lu Xiaochan's surroundings, making her feel like she was walking through the starry sky... As she walked through, she saw nebula dust, small meteorite belts, brilliant explosions, stars began to appear one after another, the collapse of huge celestial bodies, The formation of black holes...

The logo of the deep space appeared in front, a very simple blue arc, like the bright light on the horizon when the sun just rises.

Deep space technology

We don't adapt to the world, the world should adapt to us.

The forward speed suddenly increased, and the surrounding celestial bodies retreated rapidly.Lu Xiaochan felt very strange when she was in it. With such a fast moving speed, the rendering delay must not be able to keep up. According to common sense, she should have started to get dizzy a long time ago, but now she feels that everything is normal and there is no sense of dizziness.

The perspective finally advanced to a blue planet, and she felt that she had rushed into the atmosphere.Because the scenery is moving too fast, before I can take a closer look, the angle of view has come to the ground... or the river.

"Plop—" A realistic sound effect came from the earphones, and the picture suddenly sank to the bottom of the water.

Looking upwards across the water, one can see a faint ancient building on the oasis in the center of the river, broken and reassembled by the waves, blurred.

Lu Xiaochan was shocked by the texture of the water when another logo she had never seen before appeared in front of her—the outline of an ancient pavilion outlined by two strokes.

Below it reads—

Jiangxin Building

The great man is the country and the people.

"Wow——" the angle of view began to move upwards, and directly smashed through the logo of Jiangxin Building. With the sound of surging water waves, Lu Xiaochan finally rushed out of the water and saw the small building on the oasis in the heart of the river in front of him.

There is a logo on the top of the small building: two star clusters in the shape of a crescent moon face each other far away.

The words under the logo are - DayDream.

But there is no slogan.

Lu Xiaochan no longer cares what DayDream's slogan is.

The moment she rushed out of the water and saw the surrounding scenery, she stood there in a daze.

The author has something to say:

Don't worry, the appetizers haven't been finished yet.

This Nvidia story is purely fictitious.However, it is true that they started preparing for general-purpose computing in 2007. After ten years of preparation, they just caught up with the explosion of artificial intelligence. This forward-looking ability is really nb.