Hogwarts: Becoming a god from reselling fresh food

In addition to the core "Void Particle" Research Institute, the National Laboratory also includes many purely Muggle research institutes, such as the Institute of Computing Technology, the Institute of Mathematics, the Institute of Optoelectronics, the Institute of Molecular Biology, and the Institute of Neuroscience, etc. .

Since some research requires extremely precise measurement, and the existence of magic may make it impossible to accurately control variables, not all research institutes will be included in the science and technology city system.

These Muggle scientific research institutes and the Void Particle Research Institute are each in a fan shape, surrounding tens of thousands of hectares of land in the Science and Technology City, and in the center of them is the "National Supercomputing Center".

This is a building complex composed of six hexagonal prism-like towers. The tallest tower reaches 242 meters, and there is an underground space 46 meters deep beneath these towers. The building complex The whole thing has a very rough but grand futuristic style that fits Murphy's aesthetic perfectly.

The central supercomputer - "Pioneer" is located in this building.

Pioneer is actually a collection of six supercomputers that transmit signals to each other through optical cables and perform synchronous operations. It uses nearly 70,000 CPUs and more than 300,000 GPUs, totaling nearly 70 million processing cores. , half of the production capacity of Suzhou's umbrella chip factory last year was used to supply this supercomputer.

These chips are Umbrella's latest 7-nanometer process chips. The manufacturing process is very advanced and is close to the chip level of Murphy's original world around 2020.

Making a chip of this level in 1995 was partly due to the fact that Murphy dug out many advanced process-related technologies from his head through "Total Recall".

On the other hand, it is still thanks to the continuous digging of the magnification and reduction spell.

With the stable magic output and enchantment technology of the magic stone, it is now possible to get rid of wizards in factory production, and many spells have been standardized.

The error of the magnification and reduction spell is reduced to one hundred thousandth. The original size of an ordinary wafer is about 200 mm. After enlarging it ten times to two meters, the size error is only 20 microns. It is restored after processing using a 1 micron process. The accuracy error does not exceed 0.01 nanometers, which is fully sufficient to support nanoscale processing technology.

If it had not reached the level of 7 nanometers, due to the quantum tunneling effect, it would no longer be possible to improve the process level simply by scaling up or down the size. Otherwise, Umbrella could now produce chips with processes below 1 nanometer in this way.

But even so, after several optimizations, the performance of today's 7-nanometer process chips has become very powerful. The overall computing power of Pioneer has reached 100 billion times per second, which is 10EFLOPS-level computing performance, even exceeding The most advanced supercomputer before Murphy's time travel.

However, Pioneer's energy consumption is also extremely scary. When the computing power is fully turned on, the power consumption reaches an astonishing 600,000 kilowatts, which is equivalent to the power consumption of a county in the UK. Although the computer room uses advanced water cooling technology to cool down, It was only able to operate the Pioneer at full power for two days.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the six supercomputers will undertake computing tasks at intervals to reduce cooling pressure.

"The computing power of the pioneers has been greatly overflowed for today's national laboratories. Coupled with the unlocking curse solution, the guys in the laboratory are living a paradise life. They can apply for any project. Computing resources, and sometimes even pioneers are used by the military to decrypt the beautiful country’s encrypted signals.”

Supercomputer maintenance engineer Anton Sakharov gave Murphy science along the way, "If you need to control the magic supply, you only need a very small algorithm, which is insignificant compared to the computing power of the pioneers."

"In fact, the algorithm is very simple. You only need to install a terminal in each laboratory or factory that requires magic power, and collect the magic power and changes during their production in real time. Then you can estimate the magic power level required by each factory or laboratory. Then put all the factory and laboratory data together, and you can adjust the distribution of magic power according to the plan. As long as the information you get is accurate enough, the Pioneer can ensure that the magic power is distributed to the places where it is needed to the maximum extent."

Murphy nodded, "Cybernetics? Collection, processing, control, feedback..."

"Yes, you understand cybernetics?"

"I know a little bit about it," Murphy said, "And this set of things sounds a bit familiar."

Anton was overjoyed and said: "I am a student of Academician Groshkov. This set of algorithms is actually a small model of the OGAS system. There are not many nodes for the magic rationing problem, and there are only tens or hundreds of thousands of parameters at most. Compared with the OGAS system, it is not difficult, and with the pioneers, we can even complete the OGAS system now."

"OGAS, National Automation System?"

"Yes, yes!" Anton became excited. "With the computing power of Pioneer, the biggest bottleneck of the national automation system no longer exists! If many applications related to void particle technology can be implemented, we may even hope to build a real racing system." Botonia!”

Cybertonia.

That is an extremely romantic dream prophecy.

People have the impression that the Soviet Union is a country that practices planningism and is dogmatically rigid. In the 1960s, before the Internet even appeared, it had already proposed a plan to manage the national economic operation through a big data network, and even implemented it for more than ten years. years of preliminary research.

This is what Anton calls OGAS, the National Program for Automated Systems, headed by Groshkov.

At that time, the national planned economy encountered challenges and the manpower was simply not enough to coordinate the country's production. So Groshkov proposed an automated economic system that used computers and cybernetic principles to obtain all production data across the country and then issue production instructions in real time as needed. plan.

The initial plan included a three-layer network of central supercomputer, local computing nodes and enterprise terminals. It was a typical tree network. Later, due to insufficient computing power, Groshkov also planned to use a decentralized block-like network. Chain network systems, and even digital currency payments, are extremely advanced in all aspects.

However, the computing power and network foundation at that time were simply not enough to support the implementation of such a huge plan. In addition, the system violated the interests of many departments and was obstructed by many parties. In the end, it had to be abandoned.

But at that time, under the leadership of Groshkov, there was a very dynamic scientific research team. They even imagined an extremely cyber future era, an era in which humans and robots lived together. The gap between the rich and the poor has been greatly reduced, and productivity has developed tremendously. Everyone can be freed from heavy labor and engage in work they like.

They call that future cyber-communist utopia Cybertonia.

They even designed emblems, constitutions, festivals, etc. for Cybertonia. They truly hope that the power of science and technology can lead the Soviet Union and mankind towards great unity.

In Murphy's view, Groshkov and his OGAS plan were too advanced in the original world to be consistent with the actual situation.

In an era when the Internet had not even been born and personal computers had not yet appeared, it was too utopian to start a project from scratch that could only exist in the era of the big data Internet.

However, times have changed, and the world now is completely different from the original world.

What would happen if we made such a plan now?