Rebirth: I am Sai, but the animation Three Body

Chapter 51 Simulating the Brain
Crisis Era 15

7 years into Say's big infrastructure project, Ray Diaz and Hines are awakened from hibernation at the same time, and they are told by the PDC that the waiting computer technology has emerged
"So fast?" Rey Diaz and Hines were surprised when they learned that the mainframe computer project had achieved a breakthrough after only 11 years. 【Note】

They were then told that due to the unprecedented large investment, the technological progress in the past few years has indeed been rapid, and a large number of breakthroughs have been made in many aspects.

But that's nothing to be optimistic about, humans are just sprinting along the final distance between themselves and the sophon barrier.

Only applied science is progressing, and frontier physics is stagnant like a pool of stagnant water.

Humanity's reserves of theory are being exhausted, and technological progress will slow down until it stops completely, but people still don't know when the end of technology will appear.

A few days after waking up from hibernation, Hines was taken to a building that looked like a gymnasium.The interior of the building is shrouded in a misty white fog

"Hello, Dr. Hines, welcome to Project 127." In the building, he saw a person he never dreamed of, that is PDC Chairman Say.

"Chairman Say, what can you do for me?" Hines asked.

"The two of us have a common language about large-scale computers, because my large-scale infrastructure plan also has a certain demand for super-computers."

"Oh, I forgot that when you proposed the big infrastructure plan and smart city, you were already hibernating." Looking at Hines with a puzzled expression, Sai explained.

"So Chairman Say, when did you end your hibernation?" Hines asked, and the other party seemed to be getting old.

"I woke up once in the 8th year of the Crisis Era, but I went to hibernation again half a year later. This time I woke up last year, so I studied supercomputers by the way."

"Speaking of which, shortly after you hibernated, six new generation supercomputer research projects started at the same time, three of which were conventional structures, one was non-Fon structure, and the other two were research on quantum computers and biomolecular computers. project."

"But when I proposed the big infrastructure plan, the chief scientists of these six projects all told me that the computing power that you, Mr. Rey Diaz or I want is impossible to achieve."

"The quantum computer project was the first to be interrupted. The existing physical theory could not provide enough support. The research hit the wall of the sophon. The biological computer followed. They said that was just a science fiction."

"The last thing to stop is the non-Feng structure computer. This structure is actually a simulation of the human brain. The scientist explained a lot of things to me, anyway, the final meaning is that it can't."

"In the end, there were only three traditional structure computer projects still working, but there was no progress for a long time, even when I woke up last year, there was no progress."

Hearing this, Hines couldn't help being curious: "So how did you solve this problem this year?"

"The PDC and I came up with this crazy idea of ​​simulating the human brain in an almost brutal way."

"How did you simulate it?"

"Transform the previous software simulation into hardware, use a microprocessor to simulate a neuron, all microprocessors are interconnected, and the connection mode can be dynamically changed."

It took Hines a moment to catch Say: "You mean, make 1000 billion of these microprocessors to build a simulated brain?"

"Yes, use resources to solve the problem." Sai nodded.

"The microprocessor needed to build such a simulated brain is probably equivalent to the sum of the microprocessors that humans have ever produced?" Hines said with emotion.

"I haven't counted it, but it's definitely not that many, because the nine council members told me that even if it takes hundreds of billions of chips to build a simulated brain, it's just scraps of the number of chips used in the big infrastructure plan." Say road.

"What?!" Hines was taken aback when he heard this, he was a little curious about what Say's plan was doing, it actually required so many chips.

"I plan to build the Internet of Things, so a huge number of electronic components and chips are required to be placed in every corner." Sai explained.

"Your plan is really grand, just like the previous Fourth Agricultural Revolution." Hines took a deep breath and said with emotion.

He can now imagine that countless chip factories and electronic industrial zones have sprung up under Say's plan, and the daily production of electronic products by human beings is estimated to be more than the sum before the crisis era.

To be honest, you and Ray Diaz have to thank me for this, otherwise it would not be easy for human beings to create so many chips, and the difficulty of passing this simulated brain project will increase a lot. "Say joked.

"That's right, thank you very much." Hines said sincerely. Say has been kind to him. First, he found out his own wallbreaker, and now he helped him develop the supercomputer needed for the brain analyzer.

"Let's not talk about this, look here, this is one of the planned simulated brain assembly workshops. Originally, PDC only planned to build , but I persuaded PDC to raise the number to ."

"This is the only one that has been completed so far. The remaining more than 40 simulated brains are still under construction. Of course, they won't all be given to you. I need a few for my plan."

"Of course it's fine." Hines said quickly, without Say's help, who knows when the supercomputer will be able to meet his needs.

"This can be regarded as a gift from me to you. Last month, this supercomputer was finally completed. Its performance is times that of your most powerful computer before hibernation."

After Keiko Yamasugi was arrested, Say intervened in the research of supercomputers in the 8th year of the Era of Crisis in order for Hines to come up with the ideological seal as soon as possible.

The Big Infrastructure Project was also used to supply the microprocessor, incidentally as a cover to confuse the Trisolarans in case the ETOs found themselves interested in Hines' plans.

"Traditional structure?"

"It is a traditional structure, and the computer science community is surprised to be able to squeeze out so much juice from the lemon of Moore's Law, but this time it is estimated that it is coming to an end."

Hines knew this was the first computer ever, and if humans failed, never again.

"By the way, doctor, do you have any idea about the number hundreds of billions?" Say interrupted Hines's meditation.

"Why do you ask that?" Hines asked puzzled.

"Because the fog around you is made of 1000 billion microprocessors, and we're right now in the holographic display of this supercomputer."

　Note: The original book is 8 years old, but the original book Rey Diaz and Hines hibernated from the 12th year of the Crisis Era, and the animation seems to hibernate from the 4th year of the Crisis Era
　　
　
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