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M Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

The Titan supercomputer sits in one corner of the lab, which is a separate building. The barbed wire grid separates it from everything around it, and the soldiers with live ammunition in the sentry box at the gate silently tell the particularity of this building.

Jimmy is a regular employee of the lab who has been working beside this computing monster since he graduated from college. Calculation Monster is the name he gave to the Titan supercomputer. In Jimmy's eyes, it is a monster that devours countless energy and occasionally spits out a few boring numbers. Every piece of equipment here, every staff member including Jimmy is just counting the screws on the monster.

Jimmy is very satisfied with being able to work here. His job is very easy. When there is no calculation task, he is responsible for checking the monitoring lights installed in the body of the calculation monster. If there is a problem with any light, he only needs to call the maintenance department. When there is a computing task, he only needs to mount the mobile encrypted disk on the mouth of the computing monster.

Of course, the ability of a college student to obtain such a well-paid position has a lot to do with his background. Jimmy's father was a professional soldier, and his elder brother died in overseas wars. So although Jimmy's education and ability are very mediocre, he can get this job with a monthly salary of more than 5 figures.

The only thing he is dissatisfied with is the militarized management method here. Mobile phones, tablets, and even computers cannot be connected to the Internet. Mobile storage devices without specific chips are not allowed to be brought in.

In the days without assignments, he can only chat with a few engineers in their 50s. In his opinion, these nerds are too boring. They don't watch movies or listen to music. The most unacceptable thing to Jimmy is that they don't even watch cartoons. Don't they know that One Piece is the best cartoon in the world?

The biggest advantage of staying in one place for a long time is that you can discover some unexpected secrets.

So does Jimmy, who is overjoyed when he finds a forgotten computer in a utility room that the old relic still turns on.

Although this computer cannot be connected to the Internet, it can mount mobile encryption disks like other computers in the laboratory, which is enough for Jimmy.

After finally surviving the off-duty time, Jimmy quietly put a mobile encryption disk into the backpack in the corner of the laboratory, and then said hello and goodbye to those boring engineers as usual.

Jimmy, are you off duty? The soldiers on duty greeted him when they saw him.

Jimmy smiled: Paco, you are on duty today. I heard from my father that you are getting married soon.

Soldier Paco seemed to ignore the normal security check procedure, he opened the gate casually, and replied: It will be next week, you and your father must come to the wedding.

Of course! Jimmy walked out of the heavily guarded laboratory with his backpack on his back. As imagined, most of the soldiers on duty here are his father's former subordinates. For such an acquaintance, they will not check at all, and this mobile encrypted disk will not trigger the security alarm because it is equipped with a specific chip. alarm.

So Jimmy will do this once a week. He will store the latest One Piece episodes downloaded from pirated websites into a mobile hard drive at home, and then secretly hide in the utility room to watch when he has free time.

It's the same this time. The One Piece that Jimmy was looking forward to was updated again. He couldn't wait to open BY and start downloading.

Only this time, he didn't notice that the volume of these episodes of One Piece downloaded through BitTorrent was larger than usual.

The next day, Jimmy came to the laboratory leisurely. Unlike the past, there happened to be a new task today. A pharmaceutical company needed Titan to analyze the chemical formula of a drug.

It seems that I can't see it today. He walked out of the laboratory with a mobile encrypted disk, and there was an office outside the gate that was specially used to transfer data.

When he arrived, the staff of the pharmaceutical factory had already been waiting in front of the data transfer machine.

Jimmy was not worried about the One Piece episodes in the hard drive. He turned around and said, Turn around, this is a confidential item while inserting the hard drive into the data switch port.

The staff of the pharmaceutical factory hurriedly turned away. Titan's job content was always very mysterious. As a person next to Titan, Jimmy was naturally full of mystery.

Jimmy entered the secret key, copied the data into the mobile encrypted disk, looked at the episodes of One Piece stored in it, and shook his head helplessly, It seems that I can only watch it tomorrow.

After completing the data transfer task, Jimmy returned to the laboratory and mounted the encryption disk on Titan.

A program enters Titan's computing pool through the optical cable along with the data stream, and deletes its own existence in the confidential disk, and of course Jimmy's favorite One Piece episodes are also included.

Start the Titan supercomputer! As a staff member clicked the mouse, there was a buzzing sound in the computer room, and various lights flashed.

The voltage is normal!

The current is normal!

Computer load 10%!

Computer load 20%!

Computer load 80%!

Several Titan operators looked at each other in blank dismay. According to the preset setting, only 70% of the computing power of the Titan supercomputer will be used for this calculation, but now the computer load has reached 80%, and it is still rising.

Jimmy, check the Titan lights, an operator called over the intercom.

Call me if you can't figure it out yourself? Jimmy walked into the computer room reluctantly. He hated these operators the most in the laboratory. He often looked down on undergraduates like Jimmy with a doctorate degree. However, he still carefully checked the various indicator lights in the computer room, because this was his job.

A1 is normal, A2 is normal, F12 is normal! Jimmy checked all the lights, and he shouted into the intercom: All lights are normal.

In the control room, a tense atmosphere is permeating. The option of emergency shutdown was placed in front of the operators, and they turned their inquiries to the leader.

The leading operator was sweating on his head, hesitated for a moment, shook his head, he wanted to wait.

Computer load 90%!

Computer load 91%!

Computer load 95%!

Computer load 95%!

Finally, the computer load stopped climbing, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, because the emergency shutdown meant that their previous work had gone wrong.

Everything is fine! After a careful inspection, they did not find any problems.

No problem is the biggest problem. The leading operator has decided to do a detailed inspection of all the equipment after the program is finished.

After 48 hours, the program finally ran smoothly, and the data was downloaded to the mobile encrypted disk through optical fiber.

Jimmy was about to leave the lab with the encrypted disk.

Jimmy wait! An operator blocked his way, You need to check the encryption disk in your hand.

Any equipment connected to the supercomputer needs to be checked, this is an order from their boss.

Jimmy's palms were sweating, and his legs shook slightly, Could it be discovered?

He tried his best to suppress the trembling hands and gently inserted the encryption disk into the computer next to him.

The operator stared at the encrypted disk and didn't notice anything strange about Jimmy. He opened the encrypted drive letter and checked it carefully. Except for the data similar to chemical formulas, there was no suspicious program in the encrypted disk.

No problem, send it out!

When Jimmy heard this sentence, he felt as if he had gone through hell, Where are those One Piece episodes? This thought hovered in his mind, but it didn't take long before it was deleted by Maybe it was deleted by Titan, the computer's Who can figure it out? instead.

After the staff of the pharmaceutical factory copied the data through the data switch, they made sure that Jimmy had cleared the chemical formula data in the encrypted disk before leaving in peace. Because these data are related to the research and development of new drugs worth hundreds of millions, they must not be leaked.