Chapter 14 Photonic Computers

After doing an overall inspection of Zuihou, Xiao Yu gave the order to ignite and launch.

The tail of the rocket spewed out a pale yellow flame, and under the reverse thrust of the flame, the huge rocket began to rise slowly, and the speed became faster and faster. A few seconds later, the rocket flew to an altitude of several tens of meters, tilted its body slightly, and flew into the sky in the direction of Titan's rotation.

The advantage of this is that it is easier to reach the orbital speed with the help of a little speed of Titan's rotation, which can save a lot of fuel.

The Fengshen-1 helicopter rose to an altitude of 10,000 meters, where it silently watched the huge rocket flying higher and higher. During this launch, Fengshen-1 temporarily served as a communication relay station.

A minute later, the rocket reached Titan's orbit, successfully separated from the engine, and then the capsule opened and flew out in a string of twelve fixed satellites.

Here is the other side of Titan. Because of the lack of sufficient communication transfer stations, they have temporarily left Xiao Yu's monitoring range. In other words, these things have disappeared from Xiao Yu's gaze.

The next action is no longer carried out under Xiao Yu's command, but relies on his own haode program to run.

Xiao Yu waited silently on the ground. If all goes well, in thirty minutes, he will receive a signal from the first satellite. This time should not exceed 40 minutes. If, after forty minutes, Xiao Yu has not received the signal back from the satellite, it proves that the launch failed.

Xiao Yu was confident in the program section he had reserved for the satellite, but he still couldn't avoid some apprehension in his heart. Looking at the shrinking countdown, Xiao Yu's heart was full of anticipation.

One hundred kilometers from Titan, two strings of things like sugar gourds float silently. They have gained a speed of 2.4 kilometers per second, which is already faster than Titan's first cosmic speed, so they don't fall.

Behind them was the wreckage of a rocket that slowly fell to the ground. The rocket has completed its mission, about to fall to the ground, and then disappear as it rubs against the atmosphere.

The silence lasted only ten seconds. Ten seconds later, the two strings of sugar gourd-like things suddenly made a little noise, and then, the thing that held them together suddenly broke off, and the two strings of sugar gourds became twelve separate individuals.

However, their orbits, speeds and other parameters have not changed, so they still maintain their previous appearance, flying quietly in formation.

After another dozen seconds, a faint pale blue flame suddenly appeared at the tail of these twelve things at the same time. Driven by the pale blue flames, they moved away from each other in an orderly manner, and when the distance was large enough, the pale blue flames suddenly became larger, pushing them to fly away quickly, like a group of toads startled by thunder.

They are guided by their own reserved procedures, and each of them is looking for its own track.

On the ground, Xiao Yu looked at the time in a daze. Half an hour had passed, but he still hadn't received any return signals.

"Don't worry, don't worry, there's still ten minutes before the Zuihou time limit." Xiao Yu comforted himself like this. Then, just after this thought flashed, a series of radio waves passed into Xiao Yu's receiver.

"Report to the base, Ares One is working properly!"

"God of War" is the code name given by Xiao Yu to these satellites, which are God of War No. 1 to God of War Twelve.

"Great!" After receiving this return message, Xiao Yu was overjoyed, immediately took over control, and ordered Ares 1 to immediately contact the remaining eleven satellites.

"Report to the base, Ares VII is working normally!"

"Report to the base, God of War IV is working normally!"

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"Report to the base, God of War 12 is working normally!"

Twelve satellites, all working fine!

Xiao Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

From then on, these satellites will form a large network in the sky, covering the entire planet. As long as the receiving and transmitting signal equipment is installed, Xiao Yu can already contact any place on the surface of Titan, and he can no longer control the range within a radius of 500 kilometers, unlike before.

"Alright, Anemo One! Let's go! ”

Xiao Yu was full of confidence, and with the satellite network as an information and communication relay station, Xiao Yu immediately dispatched the Fengshen No. 1 helicopter to continue the exploration along the place of the last detection.

Although Xiao Yu had already drawn a rough three-dimensional map before landing on Titan, and had also made a rough detection of the distribution of minerals, the detection accuracy at high altitude was really not as good as that of ground detection. In order to further obtain detailed information on the distribution of Titan's minerals, Xiao Yu built Fengshen 1.

Xiao Yu estimates that it will only take about three months for Fengshen 1 to complete the detection of the entire Titan, and then Xiao Yu will select some valuable mineral deposits and use Fengshen 1 to transport some robots over to carry out field surveys. If there is value for mining, suitable mining and smelting equipment will be transported in the past.

The launch of the satellite came to an end, and Xiao Yu began to develop a new generation of computers with all his might.

There are many research directions for next-generation computers on Earth, and they are roughly divided into photonic computers, quantum computers, and neuronal computers. Xiao Yu's main direction of attack is photonic computers. Because photonic computers are the most practical and most likely to be realized.

Photonic computers have the advantages of low energy consumption and high computing speed. Xiao Yu estimates that with the same volume and energy consumption, the photonic computer is at least hundreds of times faster than his current ordinary computer.

At that time, the limitation of computing power will disappear completely, and even, if Xiao Yu builds a few more bases, the computing power will be completely sufficient.

Xiao Yu had already carried out research in this area when he was on Earth, and the original Jihua installed a photonic computer on his spaceship. However, because some jishu obstacles were not breached, Xiao Yu had no choice but to choose the current computer. However, Xiao Yu's research on the photonic computer Jishu can be regarded as the most profound on the earth.

Now, with the support of super computing power and excellent innovative thinking, Xiao Yu only took three months to break through the Jishu barrier in one fell swoop. Photonic computers have successfully moved from the laboratory to the application stage.

"At my current level of distributed computing, the best solution is to assemble it with 300,000 photon CPUs. If there is more, the level of distributed computing is not enough, but it will cause a decrease in computing power. ”

Xiao Yu made an estimate, and after getting the conclusion, he immediately began the large-scale manufacturing of photonic computers.

This time, the assembly site is in the center of the base. Here, Xiao Yu used the most advanced materials, and even let the "No. 1" captured from Jupiter help improve the performance of the materials, so that he could build a computer room with confidence.

There is no way, it is expected that Xiao Yu will live here in the next nearly 100 years, so Xiao Yu can't be cautious. Under such a state of mind, the sturdiness of this computer room is almost incredible, and even if a nuclear bomb explodes at close range, it will not affect the inside of the computer room. The price paid was that the radiation intensity of "No. 1" was reduced by 20 percent.

There are thousands of robots busy in the computer room, putting photonic hard disks into the cabinet in order, and there are liquid hydrogen cooling pools inside, and robots are busy putting photonic CPUs on the slots soaked in liquid hydrogen.

This computer room, which is several hundred square meters in size, is divided into several small areas, including data storage area, computing area, link area, buffer area and so on. There are countless black sheath optical fibers that connect each component.

After the construction of the photonic computer was completed, Xiao Yu couldn't wait to come here through the data cable. Then, as soon as his head turned slightly, his super-fast speed made Xiao Yu ecstatic.

In the past, analyzing the operation mode of electrons in a controlled nuclear fusion reaction and its impact on the final result required Xiao Yu to calculate three hours with five percent of the total computing power, but now, it was calculated in just an instant, and even, calculating a gigabit of pi after the decimal point only consumed a few tenths of a second, and its calculation speed was a hundred times faster than before, according to Xiao Yu's estimate, the calculation speed of this photonic computer is definitely more than a thousand times faster than the original central computer!

Xiao Yu was overjoyed and immediately began the data transfer work. You know, the data generated in the years after leaving the Earth is stored on the original hard drive. If these hard drives are lost, it is equivalent to Xiao Yu forgetting this knowledge and information. This is something that Xiao Yu will never allow.

The transfer of a huge amount of data measured in petabytes lasted almost three months before it was completely transferred to Xiao Yu's new home.

All the original data interfaces have been transferred to Xiao Yu's new home, and all kinds of huge amounts of data are still rolling in, but in the face of Xiao Yu's incredible computing power, it has become a small stream that tries to wash away the dam, which is extremely ridiculous.

Xiao Yu handled all kinds of data in the sky, on the ground, and even underground, leisurely and comfortable.

During this time, Xiao Yu discovered a total of 365 mineral deposits of various kinds, and 96 of them had mining value, basically covering all kinds of elements needed at present. It's just that titanium and zirconium, two extremely important metals for astronautics, have not found mineral veins, which makes Xiao Yu very regretful.

"Relying on the method of associated ores to obtain titanium and zirconium is too low. Kindness...... On Earth, the reserves of titanium and zirconium are very high, and perhaps, it is time to consider launching a spacecraft to mine in the Earth's asteroid belt. However, this will only be after the successful development of controlled nuclear fusion. ”

"So, controlled fusion research begins!"

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