Riding the wind of rebirth

"No," Mai Xiaomiao explained, "We actually did this on purpose. The future computing resource system will be a huge, distributed system connected by a global wide area network. It may only run some fragments on resources in various places, and only through some special windows can we see their full picture on the network. And such special windows, we require that they can be accessed anywhere in the world where network resources are relatively reliable."

Seeing that his parents were getting more and more confused, Zhou Zhi took over the explanation: "The system designed by Xiao Miao can be used on computing resources distributed all over the world in the future. In theory, it can integrate devices connected to the Internet all over the world into a huge computing system, and use their idle resources to run our computing tasks."

“It’s like the entire network is a supercomputer with extraordinary capabilities, but it doesn’t actually exist physically, but is made up of the computing power fragments of countless computers on the network.”

"It's like a frosted crystal ball. No one can see what's inside the crystal ball. Our workstation is like a mirror rubbed out of the frosted surface. Only through this mirror can we see clearly what's inside the crystal ball."

"If you do this, will the owners of the computing equipment agree?" Dad was a little confused.

"We will design some reward mechanisms. For example, if a certain computing task is completed, we will reward one virtual coin." Zhou Zhi said: "In fact, many devices are idle most of the time. For example, you go to work but leave your computer at home on. Instead, you turn on the screen saver. If this screen saver is provided by our project, it can help our system transfer the computing power of this idle computer at home."

"In addition to the reward mechanism, we will use part of the collected computing power to help national defense and meteorological undertakings, and use the profits generated by the computing power system to prevent wind and sand in the northwest and plant trees. This itself is a kind of sentiment, responsibility and charity. I believe that many people are willing to participate."

"Of course, the main force is definitely the computing card matrix we have built, but with this system, when the network infrastructure reaches a certain scale in the future, we can place the computing card matrix computer room in remote and poor areas. Those areas may have abundant water energy, but it is difficult to output and the electricity price is cheap; the climate may be cold and not suitable for human survival, but it is particularly suitable for placing computer rooms without worrying about heat dissipation problems; it can transform many formerly impoverished areas into resource treasures, change the local economic structure, and help people get rid of poverty."

My father nodded repeatedly after listening to this. This kind of thinking is the standard thinking of liberal arts students. Although this project is an achievement in science, Elbow will naturally think about how to use this achievement to serve social problems, rather than just focusing on scientific and technological progress.

Elbow gave two of the most profound examples. The smart chip card was invented by the French twenty years ago, and the QR code was invented by the Japanese many years ago. However, these two things did not find suitable applications from their inventors until the Clover Group bought them. They quickly developed a variety of application scenarios, which not only created considerable profits for themselves, but also promoted profound progress in society from travel to payment and other aspects.

From another perspective, isn’t this also a kind of “from zero to one”? Even a “from zero to one” that is more important than pure invention?

The child's training in Lianhe Township was not wasted, and his thinking at work has indeed become more comprehensive and mature.

"The reason why we can travel everywhere is that we carry a simplified version of this window. The most important thing is a set of portable high-transmission satellite network equipment, and the rest is two laptops."

"If uncle is worried, we can demonstrate it to you later." Mai Xiaomiao really wanted to show off his masterpiece.

“No, no…” Dad shook his head quickly, thinking that you really think highly of me. Now Dad is also known as a “technologically savvy” person. He just debugged and improved the system of the unit a few years ago, making it cover the scope of the provincial bureau and handed it over to the General Administration, forming the benchmark version of the industrial and commercial administration system that can be used by the General Administration and all provinces in the country, covering various major work scenarios within the bureau, greatly improving efficiency, and making Sichuan Province a “technological province” in the national system.

But this process also made him exhausted. He also knew that his strength lay in management, and he was able to reach his current level by secretly studying the book "Information Engineering Management" published by his son.

Knowing how difficult it is, even though Mai Xiaomiao downplayed it, his father firmly refused the invitation to look at the system.

It’s all in vain.

However, the topic soon turned to information technology, and my father couldn't help complaining. The most infuriating thing was that the talents he had trained with great effort were "intercepted" in the process of being sent to the General Administration and Provincial Bureaus for system debugging, installation and training, resulting in a talent gap in Manzhou again.

Job opportunities in the General Administration and Provincial Bureaus are extremely rare. Manzhou has not sent any talent upwards for many years, so it is impossible for my father not to push his own men upwards. But the pain of having no one available is something I have to overcome on my own.

Zhou Zhi is very familiar with this situation. The country's demand for programmers can be described as hungry. The treatment offered by various units is very good. Units like the Manzhou Industrial and Commercial Bureau may not be able to recruit relatively prestigious college students. Although the treatment of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau is second only to the Finance Bureau among ordinary civil servants and can be compared with the State Taxation Bureau, it cannot get the high salaries of several thousand yuan that are often offered by technology companies.

"If that doesn't work, let's do on-the-job training." Zhou Zhi pondered for a moment: "If we can't recruit IT talents from 211 universities, we can recruit from second-tier comprehensive universities. After signing an agreement with them, we can send them to Clover for development training."

"Another direction is that now that we have a system, we need to pay attention to operation and maintenance talents."

"Clover itself is responsible for the operation and maintenance of this system. Operation and maintenance personnel do not need to be as professional as development personnel, but they can still promote the development of the system. For outsourcing business, operation and maintenance personnel are often more familiar with the overall system than developers who are only responsible for the development of some modules, and they are more familiar with the various 'pain points' in the system. An experienced system operation and maintenance personnel will inevitably grow into an excellent system designer, and even advance to the overall system architect."

"Talents like this are much more valuable than developers. I think you can develop in this direction, Dad..."

"Stop!" Dad stopped him again: "Professional matters should be left to professionals. I, your dad, will just do my job well. Let the young people do what you said..." (End of this chapter)