Chapter 115: Algorithm
In the Centaurus II supercomputer base, which has the highest domestic computing power and the largest scale, composed of fully 2048 nodes, each containing 16 CPU and GPU chips, totaling 32768 chips, it was a scene of bustling activity.
At this moment, dozens of meeting rooms were holding meetings simultaneously, with linguistic logic experts, computer and mathematics experts, as well as hardware and communication engineers gathered together, and intense discussions and debates continuously emanating from every meeting room.
They were drafting the final text decryption and algorithm plan.
Replacing alien text with human text is a very simple matter. But how to efficiently and accurately discern whether these contents possess reasonable logic, and accurately screen them out for human interpretation, is a very difficult task.
This involves two aspects, the first being sufficient computing power.
This part requires no attention from the experts; at this moment, a dedicated working group is docking and advancing this matter with foreign countries.
The second is the algorithm.
How to use an algorithm to discern whether a piece of content has value? How should our side set the logic and judgment criteria?
This is likewise an extremely massive and complex task. Through several days of discussion, the experts have determined the vast majority of the algorithm standards, but some issues still need to be wrapped up.
The experts were engaged in heated discussions, while on the other side, the external working group’s work had also entered its final stages.
In the massive control hall, the large screen was densely displaying numerous red names.
Those were the foreign supercomputer lists screened out by our side as having conscription value.
At this moment, red represented offline, meaning not yet connected to our network.
After a moment of waiting, a low and serious voice rang out: “Ostia III supercomputer requests connection, communication test in progress… Connection successful!”
On the large screen, an inconspicuous name in the corner instantly changed from red to green.
This meant that under the efforts of two supercomputers and two engineer teams, this supercomputer had been connected to the current distributed computing network and could undertake the subsequent computing tasks.
With almost no pause, that low and serious voice rang out again: “Castel supercomputer requests connection, communication test in progress… Connection successful!”
“Saint Bellino supercomputer connected successfully!”
“Bagnio supercomputer connected successfully!”
“Connection successful!”
As if infected by the color, on the large screen, those names that were originally red turned green one after another.
Data channels had been opened, control permissions transferred. At this moment, the experts within the Centaurus II supercomputer base could say without exaggeration that our side had control over more than 80% of the supercomputer computing power on the entire Earth!
Just then, the discussions of the mathematics and computer experts were finally compiled into results. Programmers quickly turned these ideas into programs according to them, uploaded them to the central supercomputer, and using it as the core, distributed computing tasks to a total of 879 supercomputers located around the globe.
At this moment, some wondrous changes occurred on this azure planet.
At the edge of a city, that rumbling giant machinery suddenly stopped operating.
The workers looked at each other in bewilderment.
On the city roads, streetlights went out one by one, allowing the roads to be swallowed by darkness.
Flickering neon lost its color, and on the massive outdoor screens, the revelry of the previous moment turned pitch black the next.
At this moment, only a few core institutions in the cities maintained electricity supply, while everywhere else was plunged into darkness.
This electricity was intercepted and urgently redirected entirely to a massive building located over two hundred kilometers away, in the mountains.
Within this building, the thousands of chips serving as the supercomputer core, and the tens of thousands of memory chips, communication chips, and others serving as auxiliaries, were now operating at full power.
Massive electricity flowed in continuously, instantly transforming into the minutest zeros and ones changes in the supercomputer, into the light and dark variations in the communication optical fibers, into rolling heat, which, accompanying the operation of the temperature control system, was blown toward the mountains and rivers already covered in ice and snow.
In the biting cold wind, the ice and snow in the valley where this supercomputer was located showed signs of melting, with trickling water beginning to flow. In a patch of soil, a snake slowly stirred with the rising temperature and finally opened its eyes.
Looking at the frozen soil beside it that already showed signs of melting, and then at the distant mountains and rivers still covered in thick ice and snow, this snake fell into bewilderment.
Around the Arctic Circle, a lake.
Surrounded entirely by ice and snow, only this ice lake remained in liquid state.
A small boat floated quietly on the lake surface, a fisherman casting his net, hoping to catch some fish.
Fresh fish in this season fetch a high price.
The lake surface was like a mirror, surrounded by ice and snow, full of serene atmosphere.
A bubble suddenly emerged from the lake bottom and quietly burst on the surface.
This was a very normal occurrence, nothing strange.
But the next moment, the fisherman saw a second bubble, then a third, fourth, up to countless ones.
At this moment, though still an icy world, this patch of lake water had endless bubbles rising from the bottom, bursting on the surface, as if the entire lake had begun to boil.
He knew, of course, that the lake water had not truly boiled.
In fact, the lake water temperature was still low at this moment. But the sudden appearance of massive bubbles inevitably meant that some drastic changes had occurred at the lake bottom.
The fisherman looked at this scene in some terror and quickly rowed his small boat away.
At the lake bottom, out of his sight, that supercomputer had likewise entered full-power operation state, and while operating, was discharging its own heat without reservation into the surrounding lake water.
A train fully loaded with coal roared into a thermal power plant. The workers waiting here were jubilant and immediately operated the machinery to begin unloading.
Since the large-scale rollout of new energy, this thermal power plant had not operated at full power for a long time.
The new workers even no longer understood just how immense the power of this power plant they worked at possessed.
Now, let these recruits have their eyes opened.
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Across the globe, a total of 897 supercomputers were operating at full power simultaneously.
Calculated at 10 megawatts comprehensive power per supercomputer, at this moment, the total power of these supercomputers was around approximately 10,000 megawatts.
This meant that every passing hour, about ten million kilowatt-hours would be consumed by these supercomputers, and in a day, 240 million kilowatt-hours.
This electricity consumption was comparable to that of an entire large city.
Under this massive, almost inconceivable electricity supply, in chip after chip of computing chips, endless zeros and ones rapidly transformed, ultimately, through processing by complex algorithms, evolving into segments of text, judgment logics, or scores.
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