Chapter 378

In addition to the core "Void Particle" Research Institute, the National Laboratory also includes many pure Muggle research institutes, such as the Computing Technology Research Institute, Mathematics Research Institute, Optoelectronics Research Institute, Molecular Biology Research Institute, Neuroscience Research Institute, etc.

Because some research requires extremely precise measurement, and the existence of magic may lead to the inability to precisely control variables, not all research institutes will be included in the high-tech city system.

These Muggle research institutes and the Void Particle Research Institute each form a fan shape, surrounding the tens of thousands of hectares of land in the high-tech city, and in the center of them is the "National Supercomputing Center."

This is a building complex consisting of six hexagonal prism-like towers, the highest of which reaches 242 meters, and these towers also have 46-meter-deep underground space. The building complex as a whole has a very rugged but grand futuristic style, which is very much in line with Murphy's aesthetics.

The central supercomputer—"Pioneer" is located in this building.

Pioneer is actually a collection of six supercomputers, transmitting signals through optical cables and performing synchronous operations. It uses nearly 70,000 CPUs and more than 300,000 GPUs in total, with nearly 70 million processing cores. Half of the production capacity of the Soviet Umbrella chip factory last year was used to supply this supercomputer.

These chips are Umbrella's latest 7nm process chips, the process is very advanced, and it has approached the chip level of Murphy's original world around 2020.

Making chips of this level in 1995 is partly because Murphy dug out many advanced process-related technologies from his brain through "Total Recall."

On the other hand, it is still due to the continuous deep digging of the Enlarging and Shrinking Spell.

With the stable magic output of the Magic Stone and enchantment technology, many spells have been standardized in industrial production.

The error of the Enlarging and Shrinking Spell has been reduced to one in 100,000. The original size of ordinary wafers is about 200mm. After being enlarged ten times to two meters, the size error is only 20 microns. After being restored by 1-micron process processing, the processing precision error does not exceed 0.01 nanometers, which is fully sufficient to support nano-level processing technology.

If it weren't for the 7nm level, due to the quantum tunneling effect, it is impossible to improve the process level simply by enlarging and shrinking the size, otherwise Umbrella could produce chips with a process below 1nm through this method now.

But even so, the performance of today's 7nm process chips is very strong after several optimizations. The overall computing power of Pioneer has reached the 10EFLOPS level, which is even higher than the most advanced supercomputer before Murphy crossed over.

However, Pioneer's energy consumption is also extremely scary. The power consumption when the computing power is fully turned on reaches an astonishing 600,000 kilowatts, equivalent to the power consumption of a county in the UK. Although the machine room uses advanced water cooling technology to cool down, it can only guarantee Pioneer's full power operation for two days.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the six supercomputers will take turns to bear computing tasks to reduce cooling pressure.

"Pioneer's computing power is already greatly overflowing for today's National Laboratory. Plus the Lock-Opening Spell solution, the guys in the laboratory have lived a heavenly life. They can apply for enough computing resources for any project, and sometimes the military will even take Pioneer to decrypt the encrypted signals of the United States."

Supercomputer maintenance engineer Anton Sakharov popularized science to Murphy along the way, "If you need to control magic supply, you only need a very small algorithm, which is negligible compared to Pioneer's computing power."

"In fact, the algorithm is very simple. You only need to install a terminal for each laboratory and factory that needs magic, collect their magic amount and changes during production in real time, and you can estimate the magic level required by each factory or laboratory. Then summarize the data of all factories and laboratories, and you can adjust the distribution of magic according to the plan. As long as the information you get is precise enough, Pioneer can guarantee that magic is distributed to the places that need it most."

Murphy nodded, "Cybernetics? Collection, processing, control, feedback..."

"That's right, do you understand cybernetics?"

"Know a little bit." Murphy said, "And this set of things sounds familiar."

Anton was happy and said: "I am a student of Academician Glushkov. This algorithm is actually a small model of the OGAS system. There are not many nodes in the magic distribution problem, and there are at most tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of parameters. Compared to the OGAS system, there is no difficulty, and with Pioneer, we can even complete the OGAS system now."

"OGAS, National Automated System?"

"Yes, yes!" Anton became excited, "With Pioneer's computing power, the biggest bottleneck of the National Automated System no longer exists! If many applications related to void particle technology can land, we even have hope of building a real Cybertonia!"

Cybertonia.

That is an extremely romantic and dreamy prophecy.

The Soviet Union, which people think is planned and rigid, proposed a plan to manage the operation of the national economy through a big data network before the Internet was born in the 1960s, and even practiced it for more than ten years of pre-research.

This is what Anton said, the OGAS, National Automated System plan led by Glushkov.

At that time, the national planned economy faced challenges, and manpower was simply not enough to coordinate national production. So Glushkov proposed a plan for an automated economic system that obtains all national production data through computer and cybernetic principles and then issues production instructions in real time according to needs.

The initial plan included a three-layer network of central supercomputers, local computing nodes, and enterprise terminals. It was a typical tree network. Later, due to insufficient computing power, Glushkov also intended to use a decentralized blockchain-like network system, and even digital currency payments appeared. In all aspects, it was extremely advanced.

However, the computing power and network foundation at that time were simply not enough to support such a huge plan. Plus, the system offended the interests of many departments and was obstructed by many parties, so it had to be left unsettled in the end.

At that time, under the leadership of Glushkov, there was a very dynamic scientific research team. They even imagined a very cyber future era. It was an era where humans and robots lived together, without wealth gaps, with huge development of productive forces, and everyone could be liberated from heavy labor and engage in work they liked.

They called that future cyber communist utopia world Cybertonia.

They even designed badges, constitutions, festivals, etc. for Cybertonia. They truly hoped that the power of technology could lead the Soviet Union and lead humanity toward great harmony.

In Murphy's view, Glushkov and his OGAS plan were too advanced in the original world, so they did not meet the actual situation.

In that era when even the Internet was not born and personal computers had not appeared, it was too empty to engage in such a project that could only exist in the big data Internet era from scratch.

However, the times have changed, and the current world is completely different from the original world.

What if we engage in such a plan now?

(End of chapter)