Chapter 491: Supercomputer and AI (Part 2) (Patreon)

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"It seems that ai-001 has gained quite a lot!"

As Sun Cheng looked at the folders organized by Revenge on the screen, his mood improved slightly.

After dealing with mechanical lifeforms for a long time, he was too lazy to use a keyboard and mouse himself. He immediately instructed, "Revenge, open the 'Beifeng Data' folder..."

"Yes!"

Accompanied by Revenge's cold mechanical voice, the folder labeled as 【Beifeng Data】 on the screen was immediately opened, and dozens of different folders appeared before Sun Cheng once again.

Although he didn't study computer science in college, after dealing with mechanical lifeforms for so long, he couldn't help but develop a strong interest in these extraterrestrial beings that resembled artificial intelligence in human cognition.

In order to gain a deeper understanding of them, and because Sun Cheng also realized the importance of mastering computer knowledge, he spent considerable effort and time in this otherworldly realm using Decepticon's rapid learning ability. He studied computer-related knowledge in a hasty and unsystematic manner.

Although he didn't fully comprehend and digest most of the knowledge he acquired, by utilizing the special connection between his original self and the Frenzy body in the otherworld, Sun Cheng accumulated a vast reservoir of knowledge in his mind in a very short time. He could access, refer to, and even learn from it at any time.

Because of this, Sun Cheng could now be considered a theoretical expert in the field of computers.

He could understand at least from basic programming to programming languages, from system architecture to artificial intelligence.

The files stolen by ai-001 from the Beifeng Supercomputing Center in Nandu, after being organized by Revenge and placed in the 【Beifeng Data】 folder, were indeed complex. However, he managed to open them one by one. After roughly reading through them for more than forty minutes, the coldness on Sun Cheng's face melted a bit once again.

"Beifeng-class supercomputer architecture, operating system, high-speed interconnect... interesting..."

Currently, more than 99.9% of people have never come into contact with a supercomputer, making it difficult to understand its significance.

The shallowest and most easily humorous understanding is that supercomputers are flashy but not practical. They are expensive to build, typically costing billions. Most of the time, their extraordinary computational power goes to waste because it isn't fully utilized.

Not to mention the fact that with the advancement of technology, more and more industries require massive computing power for product simulations to ensure their designs are as perfect as possible.

Even in some more traditional industries, such as car manufacturing, steel smelting, and thermal power plants, most of the work that used to require dozens or even hundreds of engineers to use personal computers for long-term operations has shifted. They now use supercomputers for tasks like designing specific data for new car models, new steel alloy composition schemes, pollution assessments for thermal power plants, geological changes evaluations, and more.

It's not an exaggeration to say that the supercomputer is one of the greatest inventions of the information age. Its birth completely liberated computational power, turning what used to require thousands of people to accomplish into a few taps on a keyboard.

Some might argue that supercomputers aren't that impressive. What they can do, personal computers can do too; they just consolidate the processing power of tens of thousands of processors into one machine.

But the reality is that most complex problems, when distributed across tens of thousands of personal computers, might eventually be solved, but the manpower, resources, and time required are beyond imagination.

The saying "Three ignorant people can surpass a wise person" has been proven wrong with the development of technology. Many times, it's not about having more people for greater strength. Similarly, having more processors in a supercomputer doesn't necessarily mean greater computational power.

In the realm of supercomputers, one plus one rarely equals or surpasses two. While assembling tens of thousands of processors together might be straightforward, making them work together during runtime, even to handle dozens or hundreds of different tasks and projects simultaneously, requires meticulous design and the establishment of an efficient system architecture.

It can be said that the system architecture is the most important and core secret of a supercomputer. Once you have it, you can essentially build a supercomputer.

Sun Cheng never expected that the small spider, ai-001, would thoroughly understand the Beifeng-class supercomputer at the Nandu Supercomputing Center and expose its core secrets.

This was indeed a great gain!

It's worth noting that although the computational capabilities of Decepticons often surpassed those of supercomputers, not all mechanical lifeforms were skilled in research and invention.

Moreover, Sun Cheng had reservations about bringing Decepticons into the real world.

Before bringing them back, he wiped out the original consciousness of the micro Decepticons and cleared all memories, implanting new memory information.

Despite this, he still used them with caution because Sun Cheng was well aware that he was playing with fire. He attempted to control a few rebellious and unpredictable mechanical lifeforms with his fragile human body in the Real World.

In the Real World, he lacked a new mechanical body like Frenzy's to suppress everything, and he didn't have loyal subordinates like Atlas and Forerunner to solve problems for him when they arose.

Therefore, in the few times he returned to the Real World and attempted to rebuild Base One, cultivating artificial intelligence with a more docile and loyal personality became one of Sun Cheng's plans at the time.

Even until this return, he was ready to take risks and attempt to cultivate Decepticons in the Real World, but he still didn't intend to give up on the idea of cultivating artificial intelligence.

And for this, aside from needing many resources, a massive amount of computing power was indispensable.

Because he wasn't confident in bringing a Beifeng-class supercomputer designed by Decepticon engineers directly back to the Real World, before returning, Sun Cheng commanded Atlas to produce storage devices and processors imitating the Decepticon Core.

These items were currently stored in the Spherical Space. With these materials, combined with the operating system and system architecture of the Beifeng-class supercomputer obtained by ai-001, he believed he would soon be able to attempt building an extremely powerful supercomputer in the real world.

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