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Inside the computing center, neither Beard nor the FBI agents protecting him were aware of the danger outside. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

There is indeed a problem, but it is completely contrary to Liu Wei's judgment.

After joining the Future Warriors program, Beard spent five years conducting theoretical research and developing the most complete mathematical model of the nervous system today. Next, a powerful computer had to perform simulations to determine whether Beard's mathematical model was correct.

It's a pity that at that time, the surname of the computer could not be done at all.

When he built a mathematical model of the nervous system, Beard proposed that the most advanced computers of the time should be able to increase the surname by at least 10,000 times in order to complete the simulation. The development of new supercomputers is not a problem, and many high-tech electronics companies in the United States are doing this. The problem is that it is almost impossible to increase the computer surname by a factor of 10,000 in a short period of time. At that time, the United States was embroiled in two regional wars, and the huge war spending embezzled a large amount of scientific research funds, and neither the Department of Defense nor the CIA could provide sufficient funds.

It wasn't until three years ago, when the computing center of the Ministry of Defense was inaugurated, that Beard was given the opportunity to confirm the mathematical model.

Over the next two years, the Department of Defense and the CIA jointly invested billions of dollars to build the world's largest "supercomputer complex" in the computing center, and developed a new "cloud algorithm" to increase computing power to the minimum required to complete simulation calculations.

The price to pay for this is enormous.

The "supercomputer cluster" has 280,000 units of the latest Xeon server processors developed by Intel Corporation, as well as 560,000 graphics parallel processors dedicated to floating-point operations, forming a huge "cloud computing core" and increasing its computing power by 10,000 times compared with the most powerful supercomputer eight years ago. When all processors, as well as up to 960TB of memory and other subsystems, are working at full capacity at the same time, the power is up to 14 megawatts, which is equivalent to 140,000 kWh of electricity per hour.

The resulting heat can raise room temperature by 70 degrees Celsius in five minutes.

To this end, the computing center replaced the more powerful forced heat dissipation equipment, that is, the central air conditioner, which also consumes tens of thousands of kilowatt-hours of electricity per hour.

The basement where the supercomputer is located is kept at around zero degrees Celsius all year round.

In order to prevent water vapor from condensing into water mist and water droplets, the computer center is completely sealed, and the staff have to pass through a special exhaust valve to enter and exit.

In terms of last name, this supercomputer system is indeed powerful.

If it were used to simulate a nuclear explosion with a million tons of TNT equivalent, it would take only two hours, compared to at least a few months for previous supercomputers.

Even so, running Beard's mathematical model of the nervous system was a bit of a struggle.

The calculation lasted nearly half a year, and the electricity consumption cost the Department of Defense $173.4 million.

Thankfully, there were no major flaws in Beard's mathematical model, and some of the bugs were easy to correct, or it would have taken months.

After receiving a call from the computing center, Beard rushed over.

He never doubted that there was a problem with the model, and if there was, the Ministry of Defense would have informed him a long time ago. He only wanted to know the results of the calculations, because it was related to his theoretical research.

For the past three years, Beard has been trying to find a way to prove his theories.

To this end, he also went to Afghanistan for more than a year and used the [***] experimental subjects provided by the Ministry of Defense to conduct large-scale clinical experiments.

However, until the mathematical model is completed, all clinical experiments can only strengthen, rather than confirm, his theoretical research.

Seeing the results of the calculation, Beard was not happy at all.

It's not that his theory is wrong, but that it confirms his theory. The reason why he is not happy is simple: the theoretical research results far surpass the current level of science and technology.

That is, unless there is a miracle, the theory will remain on paper for the rest of his life.

Before Beard, almost all neuroscientists believed that human intelligence, or the communication between the brain and the nervous system, was based on chemical reactions, which stimulated the nervous system with electrical currents that eventually produced memories, thoughts, and so on.

Initially, Beard also insisted on this argument.

As his research deepened, Beard was the first to realize that the human brain is not as sophisticated as imagined, for example, the scale of nerve cells is much larger than the transistors that have already entered the nano age, and the number is much smaller than that of computer processors with hundreds of millions, if not billions, of transistors.

If the brain's exchange of information is based on chemical reactions, then humans should be far less intelligent than computers.

The reality is that even the supercomputer system, which was developed specifically for him, is far less computationally powerful than the simplest biological brain, the brain of an insect.

If you want to reach the level of an insect brain, you have to increase the surname of the computer by 100,000 times on this basis!

It is possible that the exchange of information between the brains and nervous systems of all living beings, including humans, is based on quantum theory, rather than simple chemical and electronic theories.

This is the result of Beard's theoretical research.

Simulations confirmed Beard's hypothesis that within a single nerve cell, information is transmitted by an electric current generated by a chemical reaction, while between nerve cells, i.e., between synapses, information is transmitted by homomorphic quanta, regardless of the speed of light.

Although theoretically speaking, this cannot change the problem of the low ability of the nervous system to transmit signals, but it is the key to human beings having intelligent characteristics such as thinking, thoughts, emotions, etc., and it is also the fundamental reason why computers can never surpass the human brain before entering the quantum age.

The gap between an electronic computer and a quantum computer is like the gap between an abacus and a computer.

Is it possible to develop a quantum computer in the short term?

Beard is not a computer scientist, but he knows that all research related to quantum computers is still in the theoretical stage.

In fact, even the expansion of quantum theory has not yet begun.

For the foreseeable future, quantum computers will only exist in science fiction.

This result, for Bill, is almost a death sentence.

Without a more powerful computer, his theoretical research would not have been able to be applied. Because it is not possible to verify the results of theoretical research that has been achieved through experiments, the theoretical research itself is also limited.

It's like sailing on a vast sea, where theoretical research is the direction of the wind, and experiments prove that it is the helmsman and sailor.

If you don't know how to control the rudder and sails, you will never reach the other side.

As if he had been hit on the head, Beard lost his way. But he didn't want to give up, and he sacrificed almost everything outside of work for the sake of this research.

After getting the results, Beard made changes to the basic parameters of the model.

According to his requirements, two or three more simulations should be performed based on different basic parameters to finally determine whether the mathematical model is correct or not.

He can only make a request, whether to carry out the second simulation calculation, the Ministry of Defense has to decide.

Money is still a small thing, the point is that there are more uses for this supercomputer system. If it takes another year to prove the mathematical model that Beard built, it will delay a lot of things.

For example, the United States is expanding the interception capabilities of TMD and NMD systems, and it is necessary to simulate large-scale missile interception in low-earth orbit to determine how much threat the space junk generated after interception will pose to spacecraft and space activities, and then determine the development direction of TMD and NMD based on this result.

For the Ministry of Defense, that's the right thing to do.

Since adjusting the basic parameters required modifying many of the programs associated with them, it took a lot of time for Beard to personally supervise the programmers in the computing center and check the modified programs one by one.

The staff of the computing center did not dislike this scientific maniac, but was polite to him.

The reason is simple: in the past six months, the supercomputer system has only run one program, which has greatly reduced the labor intensity of the staff.

If the algorithm is changed frequently, the staff will not be so idle.

As it was almost dawn, a kind female employee brought Beard breakfast.

Because most of the staff work during the day, and most of the staff on the night shift rush home or go to a restaurant in a nearby town to enjoy their first meal, there is no cafeteria in the computing center, and the vending machines have only a few kinds of food, often only sandwiches and coffee.

Fortunately, Beard is not a fussy person.

After eating early, Beard went to the bathroom.

He'd been sitting next to the console for a night, and had only been relieved twice.

When he sat down on the toilet, and before he could get out, the ground shook a few times, and then a dull roar was heard.

Before Beard could react, two FBI agents rushed into the bathroom, kicked open the wooden door of the squatting position, and inadvertently dragged him out of the bucket and dragged him out. Beard tugged at the waistband of his pants and didn't let them slip down. At this time, the personnel of the computing center did not notice him, because after the police lights began to flash, all the staff rushed to the nearest evacuation route according to the regulations.

Whether it's a fire alarm or an attack alarm, it's the people, not the equipment, that protects the people first.

Rather than follow the crowd, Beard was escorted into a separate room by FBI agents, and the other agents and guards were arriving from elsewhere.

The senior agent leading the team is contacting headquarters.

"What's going on?" At this point, Beard has a chance to put on his pants.

"Professor, just stay here and don't go anywhere. The response will be there shortly, and we have to get out of here. ”

"What the hell is going on, my job ......"

"The computing center has been attacked, and my job is to protect you back to the experimental base."

"Attack...... What attack? ”

The senior agent didn't say anything to Bearder, and after ordering two of his men to watch him, he led the other agents and a group of guards into the emergency passage.

(To be continued)