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Chapter 888 in Thunder Lab

Catherine is in a good mood.

Sitting on the way to the Thunder Lab, Catherine was watching the latest scientific and technological progress.

SED has achieved color display. Although the effect is very unsatisfactory, from black and white to color, this is a leap!

With the color screen, your goal must be a step closer.

The computer development that has been advanced for twenty years has also brought Catherine for 20 years of scientific and technological enjoyment. Now Catherine has realized that the birth of computers similar to the 21st century is just a matter of time.

In fact, Catherine can already produce some 21 -century products, such as ATOM CPU.

Of course, it does not refer to the original atom, but it is produced with the current 1 micron technology.

Intel-ATOM in the 21st century, which is Ling Moving processor, is a processor series of Intel of another world. The processor is manufactured by 45 nanometer process, integrated 47 million transistors .l2 cache to 512kb, support SSE3 instruction set

And VT virtualization technology (some model).

Unlike the general desktop processor, the ATOM processor uses order execution design, which can reduce the number of electrical crystals. In order to make up for the problem of poor performance, the starting frequency of the Atom processor will be higher.

And Catherine can now produce similar products with her own craftsmanship.

Even if the architecture is incomplete, the principle is placed there. It does not need to be half a year, and you can produce similar products.

The Intel-ATOM processor is the processor with the smallest volume and the smallest power consumption in Intel's history based on the newly different X86 micro-processing architecture. It is specially designed for small devices. It aims to reduce product power consumption. At the same time

Core 2 dual -core instruction sets are compatible, and the product also supports multi -threaded processing. And all these are only integrated on chips with an area of ​​less than 25 square mm, which contains 47 million transistors. The area of ​​11 such size chips is equivalent to one beauty

Divide coin area.

If it is enlarged by Catherine's technology, the size of such a CPU will not exceed one slap, and although the power consumption will rise, it will only reach 65W.

At this time, on the desk machine, in addition to poor performance, you can process the data of the 21st century computer!

However, it is not the CPU that restricts the development of the computer now, but the peripherals such as memory, hard disk and other peripherals.

Even the Galaxy Super Computer is the same. The floating point performance of the Galaxy Super Computer is actually 1.2 billion times, which has increased by 20%compared to the previous.

, Make the chip processing speed faster.

Catherine thought that the blade server was also used for this reason. A large number of parallel structures were used to minimize the restrictions brought by the memory.

Although the parallel architecture is not used like this, it can be used so now ...

No way, the technical restrictions are wrong ...

When you come to the Thunder Lab, at this time, the only super computer here has been bought by George Lucas at the price of second -hand goods. At this time, it is placed in the original supercomputer.

Parts.

The staff are working in full swing here.

"Miss Edson?"

At this time, Seymour Clay discovered Catherine.

"Clay...Mr. Clay...you seem to be very busy?"

I almost called out Master Clay...

"Well, we found that we had taken a big detour, so we redesigned the parallel structure, and now we have it figured out. We are preparing to build a 10 billion supercomputer."

The corner of Catherine's mouth twitched.

As expected, I was right. You are really a great master. Every time you build a computer, it jumps 10 times...

"ten times?"

Catherine confirmed.

"Just barely, many of our technologies have reached their limits. Although such a parallel architecture can continue to add equipment, according to our calculations, when such a supercomputer reaches its highest efficiency at 19.2 billion floating points, it exceeds

If there are so many, the efficiency will decrease and the error rate will increase. So we will first cut the unit in half and try it to reach 10 billion times..."

Yes, because it is a parallel architecture, as long as the number is reached, there will be no problem with any "King" series supercomputers in the future.

Well, the only problem is power consumption. If the power consumption cannot be maintained, there is no way...

Although it was theoretical, in a daze, Catherine saw an electric tiger roaring at her in front of her eyes...

Unknowingly, Catherine suddenly thought of the little guy at home... Well, that's why she's in a bad mood now...

"After this supercomputer is completed, I will first write a chess program..."

"You want to play chess with the computer?" Catherine was a little surprised.

"This is a program that a biology professor I know asked me to create. He is interested in the calculations between the human brain and computers. He wants to know whether human intuition is stronger or the computer's calculations are more powerful."

At this time, Catherine suddenly thought of the famous "Man-Machine Competition" in history.

In May 1997, world chess champion Garry Kasparov fought against Deep Blue, a supercomputer produced by IBM.

In six games, Deep Blue defeated the world's best chess master with a score of 3.5:2.5.

"In the face of powerful computing power and nearly endless storage capacity, the hard training and superhuman intuition of chess masters cannot help them win." Catherine shook her head: "Maybe you can win now, but in the future, wait and see

As supercomputers become more powerful, humanity will inevitably fail."

Even the most powerful computer in the world has no intuition, no association, and no anxiety about what others think of it. It cannot understand words that a three-year-old child can understand, and a cat can't understand it better.

Will observe words and expressions.

But these silent machines are good at things that humans can never accomplish: they can calculate tens of trillions, hundreds of trillions of times per second, and can store astronomical amounts of data. They work where we can’t see,

But it is closely related to our lives.

In her previous life, Catherine had not experienced this feeling, but now, Catherine has discovered that supercomputers are more valuable and more useful than she imagined.

The computing power of Catherine's supercomputer Galaxy is almost equivalent to one-tenth of the famous "Deep Blue" series in the future. It's just that the directions between the two sides are different. Catherine's supercomputer strives for balance and multi-tasking, so the highest floating point

Not very high, but capable of handling thousands of requests simultaneously.

But in fact, the Galaxy supercomputer and Deep Blue use the same three-micron technology. When Galaxy first appeared, it was already the top technology in the world. However, with the view of chips, it is no longer available.

People are still proud of having three-micron technology, and everyone is eagerly looking forward to Intel's 1-micron technology.

"Maybe, but we are the ones who created the supercomputer after all."

Clay's words were full of confidence.

"What is this in your hand...?" Catherine looked at a motherboard in Clay's hand.

"This is the motherboard of a blade server, so all the equipment is directly integrated on the motherboard. I think if it can be integrated, the efficiency will be higher."

Although she didn't know where the theory came from, when Catherine heard this sentence, it seemed to be the same thing.

"This is where the external storage device is connected. The motherboard is in the front and the hard drive is in the back. The lab is studying giant magnetoresistance. They say that if this is developed, the storage capacity and efficiency of the hard drive will be greatly increased. If that's the case,

If so, I can also ensure that current supercomputers can increase efficiency by another 20%."

"That's good." Catherine nodded.

Just wait and check the hard drive over there.

"Super computers are so powerful, can they think like humans in the future?"

Pu Guanshui muttered something beside him, but he was certainly heard.

When she heard this sentence, Catherine was shocked, as if she had thought of something.

Clay next to him smiled: "I wonder if you have heard of Turing's conjecture?"

"...I've heard of Turing and the bitten apple..."

In other words, I don’t know.

"Turing is a great pioneer of computers, and Apple's logo probably originated from this." Clay glanced at Catherine and continued: "The Turing Test, also known as the 'Turing Judgment,' is a test proposed by Turing.

Regarding the famous judgment principle of robots. The so-called Turing test is a method of testing whether a machine has human intelligence. There is a person being tested, and the other is a machine that claims to have human intelligence."

"This..." Pu Guanshui seemed to have thought of something terrible.

If at that time, computers can confuse fakes with real ones, then... is it necessary for human beings to exist?

"But it's just virtual after all, don't worry about it."

Although Clay didn't feel anything, he still comforted Pu Guanshui.

"Then I'll go first." Catherine said and walked out. Next, she was going to continue to see the progress of various experiments in the laboratory.

"Please go slowly, Miss Edson." Clay also went back.

At this time, Pu Guanshui seemed to be a little frightened.

"After all, it is just virtual. The difference between computers and humans should be whether they have the cognition of 'self'. Without self, they are also puppets."

"Oh..." After hearing the boss's words, Pu Guanshui seemed to feel much more relaxed, and he followed suit.

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