bloom america

Chapter 229 Distributed Computing

In the afternoon, Catherine continued her work.

The Stargate system will develop a cloud version, so the entire research must be postponed.

When used on supercomputers, the entire system must be able to use a multi-tasking system.

Not only that, the core of the system must also use assembly language extensively.

After all, assembly language/machine code is the most efficient code for computer execution. Compared with C language, Java, etc., it is much faster.

It's just that this language is very difficult to master, so there will be fewer and fewer people using this language in the future.

But after all, this language is one of the most efficient languages. Although it is difficult to understand, Catherine can have a machine code expert - Seymour Clay.

Master Clay can directly write software using uncompiled machine code, and the system is impeccable and no bugs can be found at all.

So in this regard, it's not a problem at all.

Because she was going to New York soon, Catherine wanted to make arrangements for the future today, so Catherine knew to find Seymour Clay.

At this time, Seymour Clay was staying among a bunch of machines with a few technicians.

"Miss Edson? Good afternoon."

"Mr. Clay, what do you think of our cloud system?"

he asked.

"The Stargate system is indeed very easy to run using a supercomputer. However, I have never tried this kind of system that can be controlled through the network."

Clay answered honestly.

"But if you give me some time to study, there should be no problem. The tcp protocol is really a very good thing. It can provide good support for our system..."

At this time, many programmers also knew hardware, and many people who specialized in semiconductors also mostly knew software. This was because at this time, many things were not separated, and the electronics industry in its infancy was in chaos.

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However, in Catherine's Ark Group, the prototype of differentiation has begun to appear, but Catherine will still provide some hardware-related training to software engineers - after all, most of the current hardware is home-made, and Catherine's software engineers are very familiar with hardware.

If you know the basics of the situation, then during software development, you can make some special optimizations for your own hardware, and the support for your own computers can also be more perfect.

"If you write a system, there won't be any problems."

Clay picked up Catherine's plan, which was a plan for the stargate system.

"However, the other plan is a bit troublesome..."

Catherine knew what the other party was talking about. It was one of Catherine's ideas - distributed computing.

Distributed computing is a computer science that studies how to divide a problem that requires huge computing power into many small parts, then allocate these parts to many computers for processing, and finally combine these calculation results to obtain the final result.

the result of.

In short, it is a large computing project that is divided into parts and then handed over to other computers to complete together.

"Take your time, don't rush."

Catherine finally comforted the other party like this.

When she returned to the office, Catherine turned on her computer and began to design this distributed computing program.

This approach will be common in the "future".

For example, "Bitcoin" is a kind of virtual currency. There is a kind of "mining machine software". In layman's terms, this software can turn the idle resources of the user's computer into a kind of computing power.

Boring algorithms like Bitcoin mining have little practical significance, and the computing power of users around the world is wasted.

In Catherine's view, instead of letting users do some boring algorithms, it is better to collect computing power and sell it to special corporate customers. In this way, while users are making money, they are also continuously outputting computing power to various industries. Is there any other way?

Is there anything better than this?

With the vast platform of distributed computing, in the future, when our network spreads across the United States and the world, this invisible distributed computing network will be like an infinite supercomputer.

Is there anything better than this?

With this kind of supercomputer, it is not impossible to break the curse of Moore's Law.

Of course, it is still too early to talk about this matter now.

What Catherine was thinking about was that a software could be programmed and then allowed to be used by microcomputer users.

Then, when these people are free, they can use this software to provide computing power for Catherine's system.

Nowadays, most of the people who buy microcomputers are business users, which means that at night, their computers are basically idle.

So what if you convince them to join the program?

Catherine came up with a great idea - pay.

Catherine can completely pay these people based on the amount of computing their computers contribute.

As long as they last long enough, these people's computers can almost recover their money, so will they stop doing it? Obviously, the answer is no.

Of course, the remuneration you pay must be evaluated, and try to make the cost of the remuneration you pay less than that of a supercomputer. Only in this way can you be said to be profitable. Otherwise, you might as well develop a new supercomputer.

By integrating with your own supercomputers and networks, such a distributed computer cluster can provide sufficient resources for your own cloud system.

This plan will first be tested at Stanford University. It may not be open to ordinary people at first, but to certain scientific research institutions, such as large-scale projects. After all, distributed computing is more suitable for large-scale computing projects.

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According to the original history, supercomputers will gradually lag behind the development of personal computers in the late 1980s. In Catherine's mind, computers should start from that time and gradually transition from the world of cloud computing to real personal computers.

At that time, this distributed computing method will obviously become more superior.

Catherine feels that this plan is very feasible, and you can make money by turning on the computer. Who wouldn't want such a good thing?

In the "future", the most famous distributed computer platform is probably boinc.

The idea of ​​establishing boinc was first proposed by the University of California, Berkeley.

The full Chinese name of boinc is Berkeley Open Network Computing Platform (berkeley-open-infrastructure-for-comwork-uting), which can connect many different distributed computing projects for unified management and uniformly allocate computer resources.

For example, there are three scientific research projects on the network that require this platform for research, one is to study drugs against AIDS, and the other is to explore aliens.

If the user is interested in the former, he can give priority to his computer's resources for this project.

The system will uniformly manage the statistical scoring system (no matter which project you work on, as long as you contribute a lot of calculations, you will get higher points).

Catherine was prepared to take this approach.

However, since Catherine is planning to exchange U.S. dollars for resources, she naturally can't just eat from the same pot.

Catherine imagined that certain scientific research projects could be set by developers themselves, so that when users see which project can get them more money, they will naturally participate in that project.

With more money, the calculation speed can become faster. Isn't this a great thing?

And your own company can completely withdraw a small part of the system maintenance funds...

Of course, the specific implementation of this plan requires Catherine to contact those scientific research institutions. At the same time, the Internet must be popularized before it can be achieved.

The only thing Catherine thought about was whether such behavior would hinder the development of future supercomputers...

But soon, this idea was forgotten by Catherine. As long as Catherine's own company can develop, that will be fine.

In addition to these, Catherine's distributed computing also needs to be used in one place, and that is in gaming and entertainment, such as the cloud system version of nimbus.

Therefore, in terms of entertainment, distributed computing methods are also necessary.

Think about it, after developing your own new product, users don’t even need to buy a game console, they just need to connect to Catherine’s network, and then wear a new controller to play, and this is more convenient for third-party

There are absolutely no disadvantages or even advantages to game developers.

Users like a certain game on the Internet, pay by phone, and then start playing immediately, which greatly improves efficiency.

More importantly, these people only need to pay for the game and a small amount of Internet fees and equipment to play the game. Is there anything more cost-effective than this?

In the United States, generally speaking, people living in cities are middle class and below, and rich people generally like to live in suburbs and other places.

Catherine's network is an urban network. In this case, the number of people who can afford game consoles should be in the minority. Therefore, cloud technology game consoles should become the first choice for these people. At this time, with the number of people in the future

As the number of users for entertainment increases, more and more users will be used for entertainment. At this time, it is necessary to share the burden of supercomputers through distributed computing methods.

On the other hand, although the price of personal computers is not high now, the users are business users, not personal users.

This "personal computer" really doesn't live up to its name.

So, what if personal computers are promoted?

At this time, Catherine thought of the cloud system.

For ordinary users, they use the Internet not mainly for office work, but for entertainment. What they need is an entertainment terminal.

"The Age of Discovery" is a PC game that Catherine is developing.

You can completely build an "experiential" cloud system for these users to use computers.

When the cloud system gradually withdraws from the stage of history in the future, these users who are already accustomed to using computers and Catherine's operating system will not continue to buy computers, and they will not continue to use their own operations.

Is the system in place?

"Habitus" is one of Catherine's secrets for grasping users.

In the evening, Catherine returned to her home. The day after tomorrow, she would return to New York with Ada and the others. According to Ada, they must choose a beautiful dress...

Catherine couldn't understand why these people were so obsessed with clothes. In her opinion, such behavior was simply unbelievable.

Wouldn’t it be nice to prepare one or two nice-looking clothes?

But girls always have various reasons to increase the number of clothes in their cupboards.

For Catherine, she only buys clothes when she needs them, while Ada and the others will think of buying one or two pieces of clothes for themselves when they have nothing to do.

Although there are various clothes in Catherine's cupboard now, such as cheongsams, dresses, classical dresses, etc., they are basically tailor-made for Catherine by Lisa, not purchased by Catherine herself. If it were replaced by

As for Catherine herself, the total amount of clothes in her current cupboard must be reduced by at least 90%.

"Kate, doesn't this dress look good?" Ada was choosing clothes for Catherine.

"not bad."

In Catherine's eyes, there are only three levels of clothing: "good-looking", "average", and "ugly". She can't subdivide them further... She can't do it.

But this seems to be a big project for Ada.

"Actually, it's not bad to wear a cheongsam...but you already wore it last time, so we need different clothes this time..."

Ada murmured.

Catherine scratched her head.

The clothes from last time?

Oh my god, who would remember this stuff?

"Well... the weather is very hot, long skirts are no good... Kate, how about denim KU?"

Catherine nodded.

"completely fine."

In fact, wearing knickers is still somewhat deviant now. You know, Western women knew that in the early 20th century, they were not allowed to wear knickers. In some places, it was even illegal for women to wear knickers. But although

It's a bit deviant, but that's what young people do nowadays, and they are influenced by the ideas of their previous lives, so Catherine has a no-nonsense attitude towards it.

"No... Wearing trousers is out of date..." Ada shook her head, "It might be good to wear trousers."

Catherine's expression became dumbfounded.

"Let's choose tomorrow. We still have a whole day anyway."

Catherine could only say this in the end.

"Okay, that's it."

Ada shrugged.

"I'm going to swim, Kate, will you come?" Ada said.

"No, I still have to practice ballet and those tui techniques."

Ada raised her eyebrows: "Kate, are you still practicing Mr. Li's Kung Fu?"

Catherine nodded strangely, then looked at Ada: "Didn't you also learn something?"

Ada shook her head in embarrassment: "Because I was too busy with school courses, I... uh... in short, because of many things, I gave up..."

Still three minutes of heat?

"Then I'll go practice first."

Catherine said and walked to the practice room.

"Ha ha"

As she walked in, Catherine saw Lyrela playing with the sandbags.

Every time she pumped her fist, she let out a powerful shout.

And every time, the sandbag would be knocked away by her.

"Good evening, Kate."

She turned around and saw Catherine.

"Have you been here all night?" Catherine suddenly thought that it seemed that she had indeed not seen Lyreira since the night.

"Oh, yes, you know, my brother is going to give me some special training, and I don't want anything to go wrong."

Saying this, Lyrella had a depressed expression on her face.

"Work hard, Lyrella."

Kane has been very mysterious these past two days...oh, God knows what kind of special training he has prepared for Lyreira.

Looking away from Lyrela, Catherine took off her clothes, put on a body suit, then put on her dancing shoes, and began to do warm-up exercises.

After Catherine had a good time, she came to the swimming pool again, but did not see Ada. After a while, Ada walked back to the swimming pool with a smile on her face, but she was naked...

"Kate, are you here?" Ada looked very happy: "Well, I just exercised and wanted to cool down."

Although the air conditioning is very good, it feels more comfortable to stay in the swimming pool.

"What’s wrong with you?"

Catherine saw Ada smiling.

"Lily just called me. It's really interesting."

"What's wrong?"

"She just had her teeth extracted, and now she can't speak clearly."

"extract a tooth?"

"Yes, it's the wisdom teeth."

Wisdom teeth are the four innermost teeth in the mouth.

"Impacted tooth?"

Ada nodded: "Yes, so she just had her teeth extracted. It's so funny, she actually just had her teeth extracted now..."

Indeed, although not all, there are many people whose wisdom teeth have just begun to grow in.

"Then what?"

"Then, Lily didn't have enough money, so she just called and said to postpone it for one day..."

Several people are shareholders of Angel Fashion Design Company, and they are all young rich women. It is impossible for them to have no money.

Extracting teeth in the United States is a very embarrassing thing. Without insurance, a tooth extraction will cost thousands of dollars. Therefore, in the "future", many people who immigrate to the United States sometimes do not hesitate to return to China to have their teeth extracted.

It's because this tooth extraction surgery is extremely cheating.

It can be seen from this point that dentists in the United States have a detached status and have specialized terms, rather than being lumped together with various doctors and the like.

Lily obviously didn't have insurance, so she obviously paid a large sum for the surgery, and as a result, she didn't have enough money.

Lily always wants to come up with something new and strange, and the result seems to be the same this time.

"By the way, Lily just said that Lisa has prepared new clothes for you. It seems like you don't have to worry about clothes anymore."

"Maybe……"

Lisa's clothes?

Catherine was noncommittal.