Riding the wind of rebirth

In the next few days, Mai Xiaomiao was responsible for deploying the system and optimizing the model, while Li Laosan took over the liaison and communication work that Zhou Zhi was responsible for.

Zhou Zhi focused his main energy on the R&D and management of intelligent terminals, the development of supporting COSTS systems, the transplantation of process quality management systems, and the suitability transformation of space bases.

Fortunately, under Li Laosan's implementation of the concept of "directly managing a maximum of ten people", the management work of the two teams was quite efficient. In addition, the ability level of the configured personnel and the foundation of the system transformation were already very good, so the progress was very much in line with expectations.

It took only ninety days to successfully develop the smart terminal, and after rigorous testing by national ministries and commissions, the prototype entered the mass production stage.

This smart terminal was eventually named "Galaxy" as its brand. The reason why it was given this name and was strictly tested by national ministries and commissions was that the ministries and commissions were impressed by its powerful functions as a peripheral of the Galaxy supercomputer.

Galaxy intelligent terminal can adapt to most supercomputers, large, medium and small computers, and servers with UNIX as the underlying kernel. With the COSTS graphical interface, various window controls and mouse controls similar to Windows, a powerful and complete peripheral driver library, full-featured document editing software, and an embedded JAVA application platform, it can become a good human-computer interface and a well-adapted operating platform between the core system, external devices, and operators.

This is the only one in the world. To put it simply, it transforms the mainstream server command operation platform into a server window operation platform, and transforms the complex command system that requires professional operation into a simple graphical operation interface that ordinary people can use. It also uses COSTS to realize system resource calling, sharing, multi-person parallel operation and other unique and powerful functions inherited from UNIX.

This benefit is self-evident, especially for some large institutions.

If a distributed deployment method is adopted, it is necessary to develop a front-end system and a back-end system. The front-end system is deployed on the operating computers of each organization, and the data exchange method is B2B. Not only is it easy to have data inconsistencies, but the maintenance work is also a massive project.

For example, after a system upgrade, each computer needs to update the front-end system. Systems that are not updated in time may become unusable or even interfere with the operation of the background system.

However, this problem does not exist when using COSTS and smart terminals. COSTS itself is a multi-user system. All programs are deployed on large, medium and small computers or servers with COSTS installed. There is only one set of current production systems. All users use the smart terminals deployed at their workstations to call the login interface on the server and work in the same system using their own users.

The biggest advantage of this way of working is the uniqueness of the data. Because there is only one system and one set of data, there is no problem of inconsistent front-end and back-end data caused by distributed systems.

When one user locks the data, other users cannot use the data and need to wait until it is unlocked before they can operate, thus ensuring uniqueness.

In fact, it is the convenience of maintenance. Because there is only one system, the system administrator only needs to upgrade and maintain one set of programs. Once the upgrade is completed, all users will see the new interface when they log into the system again. There is no need to upgrade one by one like a distributed system.

The final benefit is the convenience of management, because all user behaviors can be easily tracked in the system, logged, and analyzed. For example, login time can be used as the original attendance, and the saturation of employee workload can be determined based on the user's operating actions and retention time in the system, or the length and complexity of some operating processes can be determined for later optimization, etc.

These are difficult to achieve with distributed systems. Previously, the difficulty of terminal operation was a threshold, which was not a problem for scientists using Galaxy supercomputers, after all, they were all computer experts, but it was quite troublesome for counter operators in the financial, postal and public service systems.

Now, those unfriendly things have disappeared in the smart terminals. The new terminals can be operated like the Windows interface of a personal computer, which is very friendly.

There is another important function. With a graphical processing interface, the Galaxy smart terminal has the ability to process image files.

For the information systems of finance, postal services and public service, it is very important to preserve the original documents such as subpoenas, vouchers, documents, etc. These documents often bear the signatures and fingerprints of customers and users as a reliable guarantee of the official nature of the documents.

The previous character-type terminals could only process ASCII characters. After the introduction of the Hanwen large character library, they at least had the ability to process Chinese characters. However, they were completely powerless when it came to this type of image files.

The emergence of Galaxy intelligent terminal has solved this problem. It has the ability to collect, upload, download and print pictures, and provides a more complete solution for the electronic information transformation of the work processes of financial, postal and public service systems, avoiding a major defect in the process. In the past, it was necessary to call up the file number to access the original document, and then use the number to painstakingly look through the original data in the inventory. Now it is convenient to call up the picture document directly through the system, simplifying the workload of several people looking through archives and searching for information in one or two days to just a click of the mouse.

It is true that many units are short of money and cannot come up with funds to carry out electronic information transformation, but these units do not include major banks, securities companies, insurance institutions, state-supported postal, petroleum, and railway transportation, nor do they include local management agencies such as the taxation, industry and commerce, and finance bureaus. Therefore, once this system was launched, the newly established Minsheng Bank decided to take the lead and adopt it first nationwide.

The front desk counter itself is a soft advertisement. The small, modern and efficient smart terminal placed on the counter brings customers an intuitive experience of the institution's modernity, convenience and novelty. After inspecting the convenience of Galaxy's smart terminal, several major banks have begun to follow suit.

This led to a surge in demand, and Li Guangnan and Hu Changfeng were overwhelmed for a while.

Fortunately, some of the orders were placed by the state, and the need for the launch base was among them. Otherwise, Zhou Zhi would not know how to explain this to Chief Engineer Li and Engineer Zhang Gao.

Because in addition to the configuration issues of the smart terminals, the plan that the Clover Group had previously agreed to sponsor a medium-sized machine for the base was rejected by the higher-ups after it was submitted.

The plan that was finally agreed upon by the higher-ups was that the Clover Group would use its own computing power cards to build a computing power matrix and hand it over to the base for exclusive use, replacing the functions of the imported medium-sized machines.

The computing power matrix is ​​the name Zhou Zhi came up with after the computing power box was officially put into mass production. Calling it the computing power box sounded too low-level, so changing it to matrix immediately made it sound more high-end.

Whatever the name, it is the system used by the base. From hardware to software, it is all domestically produced and does not rely on any foreign technology. (End of this chapter)