Chapter 493: Supercomputer and AI (Part 2)

"It seems 001 has had quite a bountiful harvest!"

Upon seeing clearly the folders that Frenzy had organized on the screen, Sun Cheng's mood improved slightly.

Having dealt with Mechanical Life for so long, he was now too lazy to use a keyboard or mouse himself, so he immediately ordered: "Frenzy, open the North Wind Data folder."

"Yes!"

Accompanied by Frenzy's cold, mechanical voice, the folder labeled North Wind Data on the screen was opened immediately, and suddenly, the dozens of different folders inside appeared before Sun Cheng once again.

Although he did not major in Computer Science in university, having dealt with Mechanical Life for so long, he inevitably developed a keen interest in these alien creatures that were somewhat similar to the artificial intelligence life forms in human cognition.

In order to understand them more deeply, and because Sun Cheng truly felt the importance of mastering the knowledge of Computer Science, he used the Decepticons' ability for rapid learning of human knowledge in the other world, spending quite a bit of energy and time to learn the relevant knowledge in the field of Computer Science in a hurried and uncritical manner.

Although he had not fully understood or digested most of the knowledge he learned, by utilizing the special connection between his main body and the Frenzy body in the other world, Sun Cheng—while temporarily unable to explain the principles behind it—had accumulated a massive reserve of knowledge in his brain in a very short time, which he could browse, reference, or even study at any time.

Precisely because of this, the current Sun Cheng could be considered a theoretical expert in the field of Computer Science.

At the very least, from basic programming to programming languages, and from system architecture to artificial intelligence, he could understand a thing or two.

Although the files that 001 had stolen from the Nandu Supercomputing Center, which had been organized by Frenzy and placed in the North Wind Data folder, were complex, he controlled them to open one by one. After spending more than forty minutes looking through them roughly, the ice on Sun Cheng's face melted a little more.

"The architecture, operating system, and high-speed interconnected communication of the Beifeng-class Supercomputer... interesting."

Over 99.9% of people find it difficult to understand the existence of a supercomputer because they have never come into contact with one.

The most superficial and easiest understanding to make a joke of is that a supercomputer is a flashy but useless existence; its construction cost is expensive, basically in the hundreds of millions, and after spending a huge amount of money to build a supercomputer, its extraordinary computing power is wasted most of the time because it is not needed.

Not to mention that with the development of technology, more and more industries need to use massive computing power to carry out product deduction to ensure that their products are as perfect as possible in the design stage.

Even in some more traditional industries, such as car manufacturing, steel smelting, thermal and hydroelectric power plants, etc., they have actually begun to use supercomputers to simulate work that previously required dozens or even hundreds of engineers to perform long-term operations using personal computers, such as specific data for new car models, alloy element ratio schemes for new types of steel, environmental pollution assessments for power plants, and geological change assessments.

It is no exaggeration to say that the supercomputer is definitely one of the greatest inventions of the information age; its birth completely liberated computing power, turning calculations that originally required thousands of people to complete into a light tap on a keyboard.

Perhaps there will still be some contrarians who feel that a supercomputer is really nothing special, and that what it can do, a personal computer can also do, just by concentrating the tens of thousands of processors that were originally assembled into tens of thousands of personal computers onto one.

But the reality is that after most difficult problems are dispersed to tens of thousands of personal computers, they might, possibly, eventually solve the problem, but the manpower, material resources, and time consumed are absolutely beyond imagination.

The old saying "three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang" has been proven wrong with the development of technology.

Many times, it is not the case that the more people you have, the greater the power; a supercomputer is also not necessarily more powerful just because someone is willing to purchase more processors.

In the field of supercomputers, it is very difficult for one plus one to equal or be greater than two. It is simple to assemble tens of thousands of purchased processors together, but to have them work together during operation, or even process dozens or hundreds of different tasks and subjects simultaneously, requires a series of rigorous designs to formulate an efficient system architecture for it.

It can be said that system architecture is the most important and core secret of a supercomputer; having it means you can build a supercomputer at any time.

Sun Cheng also did not expect that little Spider 001 would actually thoroughly understand the Beifeng-class Supercomputer at the Nandu Supercomputing Center and even dig out its most core secrets.

This is indeed a great harvest!

One must know that although the computing power of the Decepticons is often far above that of supercomputers, not all Mechanical Life are good at scientific research and invention.

Moreover, Sun Cheng has always had reservations about bringing Decepticons into reality.

The few miniature Decepticons he brought back all had their original consciousnesses erased before returning, and at the same time, all their memories were cleared, and new memory information was implanted.

Even so, he was still terrified when using them, because Sun Cheng knew very well that he was playing with fire; he was attempting to control a few unruly Mechanical Life forms that might rebel one day with this weak human body in the real world.

In the real world, he does not have that New Body of Frenzy to suppress everything, and even less does he have loyal subordinates like Atlas or the Predecessor to solve problems for him when they arise.

Therefore, after returning to the real world several times and preparing to rebuild Base No. 1 in the real world, cultivating an artificial intelligence life form with a more docile and loyal personality became one of Sun Cheng's plans at the time.

Even after returning this time, when he was already prepared to take a risk and attempt to cultivate Decepticons in the real world, he still had no intention of giving up the idea of cultivating artificial intelligence life.

And this, besides requiring a lot of resources, also requires massive computing power that cannot be exempted.

Because he was not at ease directly bringing a supercomputer designed by Decepticon Engineers back to the real world, Sun Cheng ordered Atlas and the others to manufacture a batch of storage devices and processors modeled after the Decepticon Core before returning.

They are now stored in the Spherical Space, and with these things, combined with the operating system and system architecture of the Beifeng-class Supercomputer that 001 obtained, he feels that he should be able to try to build a supercomputer with superb performance in reality very soon.