Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 374 Cyber ​​Harmony

In addition to the core "Void Particles" 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.

Because some research requires extremely precise measurements, and the presence of magic may make it impossible to accurately control variables, not all research institutes are included in the Science City system.

These Muggle research institutes and the Void Particle Research Institute each form a fan shape, surrounding tens of thousands of hectares of land in the Science City, and right at their center is the "National Supercomputing Center".

This is an architectural complex consisting of six hexagonal towers, the tallest of which reaches 242 meters. There is also a 46-meter-deep underground space beneath these towers. The complex as a whole has a very rough but grand futuristic style, which is very much in line with Murphy's aesthetic.

The central supercomputing center, "Pioneer," is located in this building.

Pioneer is actually a collection of six supercomputers that transmit signals to each other via fiber optic cables and perform synchronous calculations. It uses nearly 70,000 CPUs and more than 300,000 GPUs, totaling nearly 70 million processing cores. Half of the production capacity of the Soviet Union's Umbrella chip factory last year was used to supply this supercomputer.

These chips are all made using Umbrella's latest 7-nanometer process, a very advanced technology that is approaching the chip level of Murphy's original world around 2020.

The ability to produce a chip of this caliber in 95 was partly due to Murphy's ability to extract advanced bit-related technologies from his own brain through "total memory."

On the other hand, it is still thanks to the continuous in-depth exploration of the enlargement and shrinking spell.

With the stable magic output of the Philosopher's Stone and enchanting technology, factory production can now operate independently of wizards, and many spells have become standardized.

The error of the magnification and reduction spell has been reduced to one ten-thousandth. The original size of a regular wafer is about 200 millimeters. After being magnified tenfold to two meters, the size error is only 20 micrometers. After being restored by processing with a 1-micrometer process, the processing accuracy error does not exceed 0.01 nanometers, which is more than enough to support nanometer-level processing technology.

If it weren't for the 7-nanometer level, where the quantum tunneling effect makes it impossible to improve the process simply by scaling up or down the size, Umbrella Corporation could now produce chips with a process technology of less than 1 nanometer.

Even so, after several optimizations, the performance of today's 7-nanometer process chips is already very powerful. Pioneer's overall computing power has reached the level of 100 quadrillion calculations per second, which is 10 EFLOPS of computing performance, even surpassing the most advanced supercomputer before Murphy's time travel.

However, Pioneer's energy consumption is also extremely alarming. When the computing power is fully utilized, the power consumption reaches an astonishing 600,000 kilowatts, which is equivalent to the power consumption of a county in the UK. Although the data center uses advanced water cooling technology to cool down, it can only enable Pioneer to run at full power for two days.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the six supercomputers will take turns to perform computing tasks to reduce the pressure on cooling.

"The Pioneer's computing power is already far beyond what national laboratories can handle today. With the addition of the unlocking spell decryption method, the guys in the lab are living a life of luxury. They can easily apply for enough computing resources for any project. Sometimes the military even uses the Pioneer to decrypt encrypted signals from the United States."

Supercomputing maintenance engineer Anton Sakharov explained to Murphy along the way, "If you need to control the mana supply, you only need a very small algorithm, which is negligible compared to the computing power of the Pioneers."

"Actually, the algorithm is very simple. You just need to install a terminal in each laboratory and factory that needs magic to collect the magic power and changes during their production in real time. This will allow you to estimate the magic power level required by each factory or laboratory. Then, by summarizing all the data from the factories and laboratories, you can adjust the allocation of magic power according to the plan. As long as the information you get is accurate enough, Pioneer can ensure that magic power is allocated to the places that need it to the maximum extent."

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

"That's right, you understand cybernetics?"

"I know a little about it," Murphy said. "And this whole thing sounds kind of familiar."

Anton was delighted and said, "I am Academician Groshkov's student. This algorithm is actually a small model of the OGAS system. The magic allocation problem has few nodes and at most tens or hundreds of thousands of parameters. Compared to the OGAS system, it is not difficult. Moreover, with the pioneers, we can now even complete the OGAS system."

"OGAS, National Automation System?"

"Yes, yes!" Anton exclaimed excitedly. "With the pioneers' computing power, the biggest bottleneck in the national automation system is gone! If many applications related to Void Particle technology can be implemented, we might even have a chance to build a real Cybertronia!"

Cybertonia.

That was an extremely romantic and dreamlike prophecy.

The Soviet Union, which is often perceived as a rigid and dogmatic country, had already proposed a plan to manage the national economy through big data networks in the 60s, before the Internet even existed. They even conducted preliminary research on this plan for more than a decade.

This is what Anton was referring to as OGAS, the National Automation Systems program led by Groshkov.

At that time, the national planned economy was facing challenges, and manpower was simply insufficient to coordinate national production. Therefore, Groshkov proposed a plan for an automated economic system that would acquire all national production data through computers and cybernetics principles, and then issue production instructions in real time as needed.

The initial plan included a three-layer network of central supercomputing, local computing nodes, and enterprise terminals, forming a typical tree-like network. Later, due to insufficient computing power, Groshkov also planned to adopt a decentralized blockchain-like network system, and even digital currency payments emerged, which was extremely advanced in all aspects.

However, the computing power and network infrastructure at the time were simply insufficient to support the implementation of such a massive project. In addition, the system infringed on the interests of many departments and was obstructed by many parties, ultimately leading to its abandonment.

But at that time, under Groshkov's leadership, there was a very dynamic research team. They even envisioned an extremely cyberpunk future, an era in which humans and robots lived together, with no gap between rich and poor, productivity greatly developed, and everyone able to be freed from heavy labor and engage in work they liked.

They called that future cyber-communist utopia Cybertonia.

They even designed emblems, constitutions, and holidays for Cybertonia, genuinely hoping that the power of technology could lead the nation and humanity towards a harmonious world.

In Murphy's view, Groshkov and his OGAS project were far too advanced for the original world to be realistic.

In an era before the Internet and personal computers even existed, creating a project from scratch that could only exist in the era of big data and the Internet was far too unrealistic.

However, times have changed, and the world today is completely different from the world of the past.

What would happen if such a plan were implemented now?

(End of this chapter)