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Mr. Li Sanli, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor of the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University, died in Beijing at the age of 87 due to ineffective medical treatment. May sir go all the way!
Just now, another computer giant left us!
Mr. Li Sanli, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor of the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University, died in Beijing at the age of 87 due to ineffective medical treatment.
Academician Li Sanli is an expert in the field of supercomputers and high-performance computing in mainland China, and was responsible for the development of several supercomputers before his death, two of which entered the world's top 500 supercomputer rankings: "Deep Super-21C" (2003, 146th) and "Self-Improvement 3000" (2004, 126th).
According to the official website of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Li Sanli graduated from Tsinghua University in 1955. In 1960, he received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Computing Technology of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Professor of Tsinghua University, Dean of the School of Computer Science at Shanghai University, Former Chief Scientist of the National Climbing Program, Convener of the Computer Discipline Review Team of the Degree Committee of the State Council, and Chairman of the China Branch of IEEE (95/96). In 1995, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Li Sanli has been responsible for the development of continental tubes, transistors, LSI and VLSI four generations of computers. According to the official website of the History Museum of Tongji University, Li Sanli was responsible for the development of the Self-Improvement -2000 High-Performance Computer Department in 1999, which has 221 CPU processors, which is one of the earliest precedents in the mainland to use large-scale parallel cluster technology to develop high-performance computing systems.
In addition to devoting himself to scientific research, Mr. Li Sanli often teaches students that if you want to do a good job, it is difficult to succeed without seizing the time and devoting yourself to it. At this point, Mr. Li Sanli has devoted decades of continuous investment and truly led by example.
Tsinghua University issued an obituary, and Professor Sun Maosong wrote a poem to mourn
Tsinghua University, where Academician Li Sanli worked before his death, issued an obituary expressing deep condolences and deep remembrance of his death.
The following is the full text of the obituary:
Comrade Li Sanli, a member of the Communist Party of China, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and a professor of the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University, died in Beijing at the age of 87 on April 23, 2022 due to ineffective medical treatment.
Born in Shanghai on August 24, 1935, Comrade Li Sanli studied in the Department of Radio of Tsinghua University from 1951 to 1955, obtained an associate doctorate degree from the Institute of Computing Technology of the Former Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1960, worked in Tsinghua University and Shanghai University, served as the director of the Computer Research Institute of Tsinghua University, and concurrently served as the dean of the School of Computer Science of Shanghai University.
He is the chief scientist of the National Climbing Program, the convener of the Computer Discipline Review Group of the Degree Committee of the State Council, and the chairman of the IEEE China Branch. He is the deputy editor-in-chief of the Compilation Committee of the Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology in China, and the editor-in-chief of the branch of Computer Architecture. He joined the Communist Party of China on March 1, 1956. In 1995, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Comrade Li Sanli has been engaged in computer architecture research for a long time since 1956, and has been responsible for the development of four generations of mainland electron tubes, transistors, LSI and VLSI computers. Among them, the 724 machine is the largest computer used by domestic universities for the country's cutting-edge science and technology in the 1970s; the 102 machine is a raster NUMERICAL control computer for processing important components, which increases the precision machining efficiency by dozens of times, and achieves significant social and economic benefits, so that the mainland entered the international advanced ranks at that time in this field.
Since the 1980s, As one of the pioneers and academic leaders in the mainland, Comrade Li Sanli has made important contributions in the fields of microcomputer architecture, local network, RISC and instruction-level parallel processing. He was responsible for the development of several supercomputers, two of which entered the World's Top 500 Supercomputers list – "Deep Super-21C" (2003, 146th) and "Self-Improvement 3000" (2004, 126th).
Comrade Li Sanli has won a number of honors and awards, including the 1978 National Science Conference Award, the 1995 State Education Commission Science and Technology Progress Award Second Prize, the 1997 State Education Commission Science and Technology Progress Award Second Prize and a number of provincial and ministerial science and technology awards.
Deeply mourn and deeply remember Academician Li Sanli!
At present, the homepage of the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University has been displayed in black and white to mourn Mr. Li Sanli.
In addition, Sun Maosong, a professor and doctoral supervisor of the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University, also expressed his remembrance of Mr. Sun on social media for the first time.
The master left, and netizens deeply remembered
Under this obituary, netizens have also expressed their deep condolences for the departure of academician Li Sanli.
Some netizens said that in recent years, the old academicians have gone a lot, the older generation of scientific people have left, and the current young people should take over the baton and become self-reliant.
Another netizen described Academician Li's pioneering contributions in the field of supercomputing and high-performance computing, and said "Mr. Eternity"!
May Mr. Li Sanli go all the way!
Resources:
https://www.globalpeople.com.cn/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=2&id=40047
https://www.cae.cn/cae/html/main/colys/53878278.html