As we all know, light is the fastest being in the universe. It reached a speed of about 300,000 kilometers per second.

Radio in radio communication is actually a type of light, but the energy is relatively low. It also travels at the speed of light.

Normally, communication at the speed of light is sufficient. After all, it is so fast that it can circle the earth seven and a half times in a second.

But at this moment, Chen Yue, who has entered the interstellar era and is developing two planets at the same time, is too slow for him.

Calliste and Callistto do not revolve at the same speed. The distance between the two is only a few thousand kilometers at the closest point, and the distance on either side of Jupiter at the farthest point increases to almost 400,000 kilometers in a straight line.

The distance of 400,000 kilometers is 800,000 kilometers back and forth. Even at the speed of light, it takes about 2.67 seconds to transmit information.

In other words, when the two planets were at their farthest apart, Chen Yue sent a signal to Europa, and it took a full 2.67 seconds to receive a reply.

This communication delay is somewhat unacceptable.

With such a big delay, how do you operate the equipment on Europa? How to operate the vehicle? How do you get the factory running?

If the industrial scale was small before, it was barely possible to rely on automation equipment, but now the scale is large, and the complexity has risen sharply, especially when it comes to the coordination and cooperation between different systems and different factories, which is even more difficult.

Chen Yue couldn't solve this problem after thinking about it.

Unless you transfer to Ganymede and sit there yourself. But in this case, Ganymede will face the same problem here.

Multi-planet development is a strategy that Chen Yue has set from the beginning, and it is impossible to change.

"Hey, there's no way, that's the only way to do it."

Chen Yue sighed.

He was desperate to have faster-than-light communication technology – as the name suggests, technology that could communicate faster than the speed of light – so that he would no longer have to worry about communication delays.

It's a pity that even the peak of human civilization is far from faster-than-light communication technology, let alone Chen Yue at this moment.

At present, he can only think of a way to compromise and deal with the current situation.

"Let's build a supercomputing center."

He thought so.

The supercomputing center, as the name suggests, is a supercomputer center.

A way to connect a huge number of computing chips to obtain extremely high computing power.

In the Luminous spaceship, the computer that Chen Yue is living on is also a supercomputer. It's just that it's smaller. The larger supercomputers of the Earth Age can even occupy an entire building, and their power consumption is even comparable to that of a city.

It is extremely useful and is one of the most important tools for scientific research. Without supercomputing, it would be almost impossible for materials science, mathematics, physics, pharmacology, and other disciplines to develop.

Now, the 65-nanometer process chip, Chen Yue has been able to stabilize mass production. More advanced 45nm processes are being developed.

The chips made by the 65-nanometer process, as an analogy, are roughly equivalent to the performance of chips that were applied to high-end home computers in about 10 years of the Earth era.

Chen Yue is a little disdainful of this performance chip, using this chip to build supercomputing, Chen Yue has a feeling of building a palace with adobe bricks

ONE IS TOO TALL, AND THE OTHER IS TOO LOW.

But there is no way, now we can only do this for now.

So a large number of chips came to Europa in a spaceship. Here on Europa, construction of a semi-underground supercomputing center has begun.

The most important thing in a supercomputing center is heat dissipation. Some chips even have to be immersed in a cryogenic liquid to function properly.

The supercomputing center built by Chen Yue this time adopts water cooling technology.

Calliste's temperatures are extremely low, reaching more than -200 degrees Celsius. So Chen Yue dug many passages around the supercomputing center and buried many pipes.

After the supercomputing center is built, the heat generated by the chip work will be carried away by the water in these pipes and carried to the soil of Europa, and then the water cooled by the soil of Ganymede will return to the supercomputing center and continue to take away the heat generated by the chip, so that the cycle is completed.

In this supercomputing center, Chen Yue has invested tens of thousands of the most advanced chips, laid complex lines, and built many auxiliary facilities.

In order to provide the power needed for the supercomputer's operation, Chen Yue also had to build a power plant specifically for it and build a railway to provide it with energy.

At the software level, Chen Yue also had to devote a huge amount of energy to writing a set of underlying programs to make the tens of thousands of chips of this supercomputer work together, and a set of intelligent programs to automatically process massive amounts of data from all over the world.

In this way, with the combination of software and hardware, this supercomputing center can replace itself to a certain extent.

Now, after a busy year, the supercomputing center, which covers an area of dozens of acres, has finally been completed.

In terms of overall evaluation, the total computing power of this supercomputing center is about 0.8% of the central computer of Chen Yue's Yingfu spacecraft. However, its volume is hundreds of times larger than that of the central computer of the Luminous spacecraft, and its energy consumption is thousands of times higher.

It can't be helped, the generation gap in technology is so amazing.

"I'll use it."

Chen Yue thought so.

At this moment, with Chen Yue's order, in the midst of a low humming sound, the system was finally activated. The set of intelligent programs used to replace itself began to operate, and in the data path that had been connected before, massive data rolled in, and the intelligent program and supercomputing center immediately entered the stage of full power operation.

Chen Yue began to observe its working effect.

Chen Yue saw that many robots began to act in an orderly manner under the command of the supercomputing center. Some robots process the previous mold one step and hand it over to the next step, and a robot immediately takes it over and processes it again;

The heavy-haul train roared forward under the dispatch of the supercomputing center, and a train approached at high speed on the other side. The first train slowed down a little and arrived at the junction a little later, thus avoiding a collision between the two cars;

In the power plant, 30 generators with an installed capacity of 10,000 KW are roaring. Outside the power plant, huge machines send solid oxygen and ice tollin to the pretreatment plant.

A huge factory is now in low-power mode according to production needs. Correspondingly, in the power plant, one of the generators immediately went into idle mode, reducing the output ......

Everything looks very well organized. Moreover, these facilities are fully automated under the control of the supercomputing center. All Chen Yue needed to do was assign follow-up tasks to him every hour, check its operating status every few seconds, and fix any errors.

This still consumes a lot of computing power from Chen Yue, but compared with before, it is reduced by 80%.

"Yes, yes, I've finally liberated some of it."

Chen Yue was quite satisfied with this.