Blooming America

Chapter 229 Distributed Computing

In the afternoon, Catherine resumed her work.

The Stargate system will be an open cloud version, so the entire research must be postponed.

If it is used on a high-level computer, then the entire system must be able to use a multi-tasking system well.

Not only that, the kernel of the system must also use a lot of assembly language.

After all, assembly language/machine code, which is the most efficient code for executing computers, is much better than C language or Jv.

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 the power of machine code-Seymour Clay is there.

Cray Great God can use the uncompiled machine code to write software directly, and the system is impeccable, no bugs can be found at all

So in this regard, it is 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 she had found Seymour Cray.

At this time, Seymour Clay was staying in a pile of machines with a few technicians.

"Miss Edson? Good afternoon."

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

He asked.

"As far as the Stargate system is concerned, it can be operated very easily by a computer. However, I have never tried this kind of system that realizes control through the network."

Clay answered honestly.

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

At this time, many programmers also understand hardware, and many people who specialize in semiconductors also understand software. This is because at this time, many things are not separated. The electronics industry in its infancy is all in chaos. of.

However, in Catherine’s aRk group, the embryonic form of differentiation has begun to appear, but Catherine will still conduct some hardware training for software engineers. After all, most of the current hardware is her own, and Catherine’s software engineers are concerned about the hardware. If you know the bottom line, then when the software is opened, you can make some special optimizations for your own hardware, and the support for your own computer can also be more perfect.

"If you write a system, there is no problem."

Cray picked up Catherine's schedule, 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. That was a vision of Catherine-distributed computing.

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

In short, it is a large-scale computing project, which is divided up and then handed over to other computers to complete it together.

"Come slowly, don't worry."

Catherine finally comforted each other like this.

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

This approach is common in the "future".

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

The boring algorithm of Bitcoin mining does not have much practical meaning, and the computing power of users all over the world is wasted for nothing.

In Catherine’s view, instead of letting users do some boring algorithms, it is better to collect computing power and sell them to special corporate customers, so that users are making money while also continuously outputting computing power for all walks of life. Is there something better than this?

With the vast platform of distributed computing, in the future, when its own network spreads across the United States and the world, this invisible distributed computing network is like an infinitely large computer

Is there anything better than this?

With this level of computer, it is not impossible to break the curse of Moore's Law

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

What Catherine was thinking is that a software can be programmed, and then the computer user can use this software.

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

Nowadays, most people who buy microcomputers are business users, that is to say, at night, their computers are basically idle.

So, what if they are persuaded to join the program?

Catherine thought of a good idea—remuneration.

Catherine can completely pay for the amount of calculation contributed by these people’s computers

As long as the time is long enough, almost all of these people's computers will be able to make money back. Would they not do it? Obviously, the answer is no.

Of course, this payment must be evaluated, and try to make the cost of the payment below the level computer, so that I can say that it is profitable, otherwise, I might as well develop a new level computer.

By integrating with its own-level computers and networks, such a distributed computer group can provide sufficient resources for its own cloud system.

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

According to the original history, advanced computers will gradually lag behind the development of personal computers in the late years. In Catherine’s idea, 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 even more superior.

Catherine thinks that this plan is very feasible, and that you can make money with your computer on. Who doesn't want such a good thing?

In the "future", the most famous distributed computer platform is probably bsp; the University of California at Berkeley first proposed the establishment of bsp; the full Chinese name is Berkeley Open Network Computing Platform (Berke1ey-open-etrk-netg), which can Many different distributed computing projects are linked for unified management, and computer resources are uniformly allocated.

For example, there are three scientific research projects in the network that require this platform to conduct research, one is to study anti-AIDS drugs, and the other is to explore aliens.

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

The system will uniformly manage the statistical scoring system (no matter which project you are working for, as long as the amount of dedication and calculation is large, the points will be high).

Catherine is ready to take this approach.

However, because Catherine was going to exchange dollars for resources, she naturally couldn't eat like this.

Catherine envisioned that certain scientific research projects can be set by Kaifang itself. In this way, users can see which project they can get more money, and naturally they will participate in which project.

With more funds, calculations can become faster. Isn't this a great thing?

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

Of course, the specific implementation of this plan requires Catherine to contact those scientific research institutions, and at the same time, it is necessary to popularize interconnection before it can be achieved.

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

But soon, this idea was forgotten by Catherine. A dead fellow is not dead. As long as Catherine's own company can continue to develop, it will be fine.

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

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

Think about it. After launching their own new product, users don’t even need to buy a game console. They only need to connect to Catherine’s network and wear a new controller to play. There is no harm, or even benefit, to the game business.

The user fancy a certain game on the network, and then make a phone payment, and then they can start playing immediately, which greatly improves efficiency.

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

In the United States, generally speaking, people who live in cities are middle class and below. Rich people generally like to live in suburbs and the like.

Catherine's network belongs to the city network. In this case, there should be a minority of people who can afford game consoles. Therefore, cloud game consoles should become the choice of these people. At this time, as the number of people increases in the future, more and more users will be used for entertainment. At this time, the distributed computing method is used to share the level. The burden of the computer is very necessary.

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

This "personal computer" is really a misnomer.

So, what if the personal computer is promoted?

At this time, Catherine thought of the cloud system.

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

"The Age of Great Navigation" is a bsp that Catherine is opening; I can make an "experience" cloud system for these users to use computers.

After the cloud system gradually withdrew from the stage of history in the future, these users who have become 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?

"Get used to xìng", this is Catherine's secret to grasping users.

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

Catherine could not understand why these people are so obsessed with clothes. In her opinion, such behavior is simply incredible.

Isn't it enough to prepare one or two of good-looking clothes?

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

For Catherine, she only buys clothes when there is a need, while Ada and the others, when they are fine, will think of buying one or two clothes for themselves.

Although Catherine's current cabinet contains all kinds of clothes, such as cheongsams, dresses, and classical dresses, they are basically customized by Lisa for Catherine, not Catherine herself. If it were replaced by Catherine herself, the total amount of clothes in her current cabinet would have to be reduced by at least more than %.

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

"not bad."

In Catherine's eyes, there are only three levels of clothes that are "good-looking", "fair", and "ugly", and further subdivided... she can't do it.

But for Ada, this seems to be a big project.

"Actually, it’s good to wear a cheongsam... but you already wore it last time, so we need different clothes this time..."

Ada murmured.

Catherine scratched her head.

Last time's clothes?

Oh my goodness, who would memorize this stuff?

"Um... the weather is very hot, if you have a long skirt, no... Kate, how about the cowboy?"

Catherine nodded.

"definitely no problem."

As a matter of fact, wearing kuzi still means aberrant. You must know that Western women knew that at the beginning of the century, they were not allowed to wear kuzi, and even in some places, it was still illegal for women to wear kuzi. However, although a bit of apostasy, young people nowadays are doing this, and influenced by the concepts of the previous life, Catherine also has no mindset about this.

"No... the dressing is out of date..." Ada shook her head, "If you're hot, maybe it's good."

Catherine's expression became dumbfounded.

"Choose tomorrow, anyway, we still have a whole day."

Catherine could only say so in the end.

"Well, that's it."

Ada shrugged.

"I'm going to swim, Kate, are you coming?" Ada said.

"No, I still have to practice ballet, and those tuǐ methods."

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

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

Ada shook her head embarrassedly: "Because the school curriculum is too busy, I... uh... In short, because of many things, I gave up..."

It's still three minutes hot

"Then I will practice first."

As Catherine said, she walked to the practice room.

"Haha"

As she walked in, Catherine saw Lerella who was punching a sandbag.

Every time she threw a fist, she gave out an angry shout.

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

"Good evening, Kate."

When she turned her head, she also happened to see Catherine.

"Are you here all night?" Catherine suddenly thought that she had indeed not seen Leroy since the night.

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

With that said, Lerela had a depressed expression on her face.

"Go hard, Larryla."

Kane has been mysterious for these two days... Oh, God knows what special training he has prepared for Lerella.

Withdrawing her gaze from Lerila, Catherine took off her clothes, then put on a one-piece bodysuit, then put on dancing shoes, and began to warm up.

After Catherine had a good heart, she came to the pool again, but did not see Ada. After a while, with a smile, Ada walked back to the pool again, but she was bare...

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

Although the air conditioner is good, the feeling of staying in the pool is more comfortable.

"what happened to you?"

Catherine saw Ada with a smile.

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

"what's happenin?"

"She just had a tooth extraction, but now she can't speak well."

"Tooth extraction?"

"Yes, it's wisdom teeth."

Wisdom teeth are the four innermost teeth in the mouth.

"Impacted tooth?"

Ada nodded: "Yes, so she just went to have a tooth extraction. It's funny, she is actually only going to have a tooth extraction now..."

Indeed, there are many people whose wisdom teeth are only beginning to grow.

"and then?"

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

Several people are shareholders of Angel Fashion Design Company~www.wuxiaspot.com~, all of them are small rich women, it is impossible to have no money.

Tooth extraction in the United States is a very cheating thing. If there is no insurance, a tooth extraction will cost thousands of dollars. Therefore, in the "future" period, many people who immigrate to the United States sometimes do not hesitate to return to China to extract their teeth because the extraction operation is extremely cheating.

The status of dentists in the United States is clear, and there are specific terms, not with all kinds, from this point, it can be seen.

Lily obviously has no insurance, so she apparently paid a not-low operation fee for this, and as a result, she didn't have enough money.

Every time Lily wanted to create something new and strange, it seemed the same this time.

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

"Perhaps……"

Lisa's clothes?

Catherine was noncommittal.