Blooming America

Chapter 888

Catherine is in a good mood. Book mí group 4∴⑧㈥

Sitting on the way to the Thunder Lab, Catherine was watching the latest technological developments.

Sed has realized the color display, although the effect is not ideal, but from black and white to color, this is a leap!

With the color screen, my goal must be one step closer.

The development of computers twenty years in advance has also brought Catherine the enjoyment of science and technology twenty years in advance. Now Catherine has realized that it is only a matter of time before the birth of computers similar to the 21st century.

In fact, Catherine can already produce some 21st century products, such as CPUs like m.

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

The intel-m of the 21st century, also known as the Atom processor, is a processor series of intel from another world. The processor is manufactured with a 45-nanometer process and integrates 47 million transistors. L2 cache is 512kb, supports sse3 instruction set, and vt virtualization technology (some models).

Different from the general desktop processor, the m processor adopts a sequential execution design, which can reduce the number of transistors. In order to make up for the problem of poor performance, the take-off frequency of the m processor will be higher.

And Catherine is now able to produce similar products with her own technology.

Even if the architecture is not exactly the same, the principles are all there, and it does not take half a year to produce a similar product by yourself.

The intel-m processor is the smallest and lowest power processor in Intel history. m is based on a new and different x86 micro-processing architecture, specifically designed for small devices, designed to reduce product power consumption, while maintaining compatibility with the Core 2 dual-core instruction set, and the product also supports multi-threaded processing. And all of these are only integrated on a chip with an area of ​​less than 25 square millimeters, containing 47 million transistors. The area of ​​11 chips of this size is equal to the area of ​​a penny.

Using Catherine's technology to enlarge, the size of such a cpu will not exceed a slap, and although the power consumption will rise, it will only reach 65w.

And at this time, on a desktop computer, in addition to being unhelpful, it can completely process the data of the 21st century computer!

However, what restricts the development of computers nowadays is not the cpu, but the peripherals such as memory and hard drives.

Even the galaxy supercomputer is the same. The floating point xìng energy of the current galaxy supercomputer is actually 1.2 billion times, which has increased by 20% compared to the previous one. The joint is that the peripherals in the later products have occurred. Changes have made the chip processing faster.

Catherine thought of blade servers for this reason, using a large number of parallel architectures to minimize the constraints imposed by storage.

Although the parallel architecture is not used in this way, it can be used in this way now...

No way, technical limitations, it's wrong...

When I came to the Thunder Lab, at this time, the only supercomputer here had been bought by George Lucas at the price of second-hand goods, and at this time, there were countless supercomputers placed in the place of the original supercomputer. Parts.

The staff are working enthusiastically here.

"Miss Edson?"

At this moment, Seymour Clay discovered Catherine.

"Cray...Mr. Cray...you seem to be busy?"

I almost called out God Clay...

"Well, we found ourselves taking a big detour, so we redesigned the parallel structure, and now we are done. We are preparing to build a 10 billion supercomputer."

The corner of Catherine's mouth twitched.

Sure enough, I didn’t call it wrong. You’re such a god. Every time you build a computer, you jump 10 times...

"ten times?"

Catherine confirmed.

"Reluctantly, many of our technologies have reached their limits. Although such a parallel architecture can continue to increase equipment, according to our calculations, such supercomputers have reached the highest efficiency when 19.2 billion floating point times are reached. If there are so many, the efficiency will drop, and the error rate will also increase. So we first cut the unit by half, to 10 billion times to try..."

Yes, because it is a parallel architecture, as long as the number of supercomputers exceeds the future "Jing" series of supercomputers, there is no problem at all.

Well, the only problem is the power consumption, the power consumption ld can't stay and there is no way to come...

Although it was theoretically, in a daze, Catherine had already seen an electric tiger roaring at her in front of her eyes...

Unknowingly, Catherine suddenly thought of the little guy in her family... Uh, so now she is in a bad mood...

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

"Do you want to play chess with the computer?" Catherine was a little strange.

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

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

In May 1997, the world chess champion Gary Kasparov had a battle with the supercomputer Deep Blue produced by ibm.

In six games, Deep Blue defeated the world's best chess master with a record of 3.

"In the face of powerful computing power and almost endless storage capacity, the hard training and superhuman intuition of chess masters can't help them win." Catherine shook her head: "Perhaps you can win now, but in the future, wait. When supercomputers become more powerful, humans will inevitably fail."

Even the most powerful computer in the world has no intuition, no association, and no restlessness because of what others think of it. It cannot understand words that can be understood by a three-year-old child, and a cat is better at perceiving words and opinions than it.

But these silent machines are good at things that humans can never do: they can calculate tens of trillions, millions of billions of times per second, and can store astronomical data. They work where we can't see, but they are closely related to our lives.

In her last life, Catherine still did not experience this feeling, but now, Catherine has discovered that supercomputers are more valuable and more useful than she thought.

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 parties are different. Catherine's supercomputer strives for balance and multitasking, so the highest floating point is not very high, but it can handle thousands of requests at the same time.

But in fact, the Galaxy supercomputer and Deep Blue use the same three-micron technology. When the Galaxy first appeared, it was already the world's top technology, but with the view of the chip, it is no longer available. People are also complacent about their own three-micron technology, and everyone is eagerly looking forward to Intel's 1 micron technology.

"Perhaps, but we are the one who created the supercomputer after all."

Clay's words are full of confidence.

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

"This is the motherboard of the blade server, so all the devices are directly integrated on the motherboard. I think if it can be integrated, the efficiency should be higher."

Although I don't know where the theory is, but when Catherine listened to this sentence, it seemed to be the same thing.

"This is where the external storage devices are connected. The front is the motherboard, and the back is the hard drive. The laboratory is studying giant magnetoresistance. They say that if this is done, the storage capacity and efficiency of the hard drive will be greatly increased. If that is the case If so, I can also ensure that the current supercomputer can increase the efficiency of about 20%."

"That's fine." Catherine nodded.

Just wait a minute and check the hard drive over there.

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

Pu Guanshui murmured a word next to him, but he was indeed heard.

When she heard this, Catherine was shocked, as if thinking of something.

And 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 just don’t know.

"Turing is a great pioneer of computers, and Apple's probably originated from this." Clay glanced at Catherine, and continued: "The Turing test, also known as the'Turing judgment', is a question proposed by Turing. The famous judgment principle of robots. The so-called Turing test is a way to test whether a machine has human intelligence. One person is tested, and the other is a machine that claims to have human intelligence."

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

If it is true at that time, the computer can be fake luàn real, then human... is there a need for it?

"But it's virtual after all, don't care."

Although Cray doesn't think anything, UU reading www.uukanshu. com but still comforted Pu Guanshui.

"Then I will go first." Catherine said and went out. Next, I will 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 virtual. The difference between computers and humans should be whether they have the cognition of'self.' Without self, they are also puppets."

"Oh..." Pu Guanshui seemed to relax a lot after hearing ss's words, so he followed.

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Fourth more~

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