Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 115 Algorithms
The Sagittarius 2 supercomputer base, boasting the highest computing power and largest scale in China, consists of 2048 nodes, each containing 16 CPU and GPU chips, totaling 32768 chips. The base is bustling with activity.

At this moment, dozens of conference rooms are holding meetings simultaneously, with linguistic logic experts, computer and mathematics experts, hardware and communications engineers, and others gathered together, and heated discussions and debates are constantly taking place in each conference room.

They are developing the final text deciphering and algorithm scheme.

Replacing alien script with human script is a simple matter. However, efficiently and accurately determining whether such content possesses sound logic and then selecting it for human interpretation is a very difficult task.

This involves two aspects, one of which is sufficient computing power.

This part doesn't need to be handled by experts; a dedicated working group is currently liaising with foreign countries and pushing this forward.

The second is the algorithm.

How can algorithms be used to determine the value of content? How should we set up the logic and determine the criteria for evaluation?
This is also an extremely large and complex task. After several days of discussion, the experts have determined most of the standards for the algorithm, but there are still some issues to be resolved.

While the experts were engaged in heated discussions, the work of the external working group was also drawing to a close.

In the vast control hall, numerous red names were densely displayed on the large screen.

That was a list of foreign supercomputers that our side had identified as having requisition value.

At this moment, red indicates that the device is offline, meaning it is not connected to its own network.

After a short wait, a deep, serious voice announced: "Ostia-3 supercomputer requests connection. Communication test in progress... Connection successful!"

On the big screen, an inconspicuous name in the corner instantly changed from red to green.

This means that, thanks to the efforts of two supercomputers and two engineering teams, this supercomputer has been connected to the current distributed computing network and can now undertake the next computing tasks.

Almost without pause, the deep, serious voice rang out again: "Castel supercomputer requests connection, communication test in progress... Connection successful!"

"San Bellino supercomputing connection successful!"

"Barnio supercomputer connection successful!"

"Connection successful!"

As if stained by color, the names that were originally red on the big screen turned green one after another.

Data channels are open, and control has been transferred. At this moment, the experts at the Sagittarius 2 supercomputing center can say without exaggeration that they have control of over 80% of the Earth's supercomputing power!
At this point, the discussions among mathematics and computer science experts finally yielded results. Programmers quickly translated these ideas into code, uploaded it to the central supercomputer, and used it as the core to distribute computing tasks to 879 supercomputers located around the world.

At this moment, some wondrous changes occurred on this azure planet.

On the outskirts of a city, the roaring giant machinery suddenly stopped operating.

The workers looked at each other in bewilderment.

On the city roads, streetlights went out, leaving the roads swallowed by darkness.

The flashing neon lights lost their color, and the huge open-air screen, which was bustling with activity one moment, went completely dark the next.

At this moment, only a few key urban facilities are maintaining power supply, while the rest of the city is plunged into darkness.

The electricity was intercepted and urgently diverted to a massive building located more than 200 kilometers away in the mountains.

Inside this building, the thousands of chips that serve as the core of the supercomputer, along with tens of thousands of memory chips, communication chips, and other auxiliary components, are currently operating at full power.

A massive influx of electricity instantly transformed into countless zeros and ones within the supercomputer, into the flickering light and shadow on the communication fiber optic cables, and into billowing heat that, accompanied by the temperature control system, blew into the snow-covered mountains. Amidst the biting wind, the snow in the valley where the supercomputer was located showed signs of melting, and streams began to trickle down. In a patch of soil, a snake, as the temperature rose, slowly began to move, finally opening its eyes.

Looking at the frozen ground around him, which was already showing signs of thawing, and then at the mountains in the distance that were still covered by thick ice and snow, the snake was lost in confusion.

A lake located around the Arctic Circle.

The surrounding area is surrounded by ice and snow, but this frozen lake remains liquid.

A small boat floats quietly on the lake, and a fisherman casts his net, hoping to catch some fish.

Fresh fish are quite expensive this season.

The lake surface is like a mirror, surrounded by ice and snow, creating a tranquil atmosphere.

A bubble suddenly emerged from the bottom of the lake and quietly burst open on the surface.

This is perfectly normal; there's nothing strange about it.

But the next moment, the fishermen saw a second bubble, then a third, a fourth, and so on, until there were countless more.

At this moment, although it was still a world of ice and snow, endless bubbles rose from the bottom of the lake and burst on the surface, as if the entire lake had boiled.

He knew that the lake water was not actually boiling.

In fact, the lake water temperature was still relatively low at that moment. However, the sudden appearance of a large number of bubbles must have meant that some drastic changes had occurred at the bottom of the lake.

The fishermen watched this scene with some fear and quickly rowed their small boats away.

At the bottom of the lake, which he could not see, the supercomputer was also operating at full power, releasing its heat into the surrounding lake water without reservation.

A train loaded with coal roared into a thermal power plant. The workers waiting there were overjoyed and immediately began unloading the coal using the machinery.

Since the large-scale rollout of new energy sources, this thermal power plant has not been operating at full capacity for a long time.

The new workers were no longer even aware of the immense power of the power plant they were working at.

Now, let these greenhorns have a good look around.

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A total of 897 supercomputers are operating at full power simultaneously worldwide.

If we calculate based on a single supercomputer having a combined power of 10 megawatts, then at this moment, the total power of these supercomputers would be approximately 1 megawatts.

This means that every hour, about ten million kilowatt-hours of electricity are consumed by these supercomputers, which amounts to 2.4 million kilowatt-hours per day.

This electricity consumption is comparable to that of an entire large city.

With this enormous, almost unbelievable power supply, countless zeros and ones are rapidly changing within each computing chip, and are ultimately processed by complex algorithms to transform into text, judgment logic, or scores.

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(End of this chapter)