I really just want to be a scholar

Wei Feng looked at Xu Hua, and Xu Hua whispered: "I asked Academician Qin about this. He said he deduced it by looking at the color of the fire and then thinking about the commonly used building materials for decoration. He also said that it was probably someone who piled it up randomly. Building materials were placed indiscriminately, and waterproof paint containing sodium methyl silicate was placed together with aluminum alloy plates... We followed Academician Qin's speculation to investigate, and that's how we found the truth about the accidental fire. Academician Qin is so awesome It’s amazing…”

The middle-aged man on the other end of the phone sighed: "Yes, it's amazing... Academician Qin can be regarded as a world-class expert in mathematics, physics, biology, and chemistry. How can he not be 'magical'? So" You must know the importance of your escort mission. Academician Qin and Academician Ning must not have any accidents, otherwise it will be an unbearable and huge loss to our country and even the world. Do you understand?"

"Understood! We will absolutely protect the safety of the two academicians at all costs!"

After finishing the work report, Wei Feng breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at Qin Ke who was teasing two babies in the distance and laughing heartily, and said to Xu Hua: "Go back and protect Academician Qin's family first. Be careful, this time We must be more vigilant and avoid any accidents!”

"Yes!" Xu Hua accepted the order and hurried away.

Zheng Haiqiao, who had been silent all the time, smiled bitterly and said: "Captain, I think the pressure is a bit high. It's not easy for you to take on this burden."

Wei Feng will retire and change careers in two years, and Zheng Haiqiao is currently being groomed to succeed Wei Feng as the guard captain in the future.

Wei Feng blinked and whispered: "Haiqiao, actually you don't have to put too much pressure on me. Let me tell you a secret. When encountering danger, in addition to doing your best to protect the safety of Academician Qin's family, remember to ask Academician Qin for advice. He made The judgment must be executed immediately and without thinking, so that there is basically no danger.”

Zheng Haiqiao was stunned: "Brainless execution...?"

"Yes, although we receive atheistic education, I always unconsciously regard Academician Qin as a 'god'. If you follow the instructions of the 'god', you will not go wrong." Wei Feng said half-heartedly After speaking in a joking and semi-serious tone, he patted Zheng Haiqiao on the shoulder:

"Young man, please understand this carefully. As long as you stay with Academician Qin for a long time, you will unconsciously agree with his omnipotence..."

Zheng Haiqiao looked towards Qin Ke and murmured again: "Impossible...?"

……

Qin Ke rested well for three days, and finally fully recovered his spirit and condition, and then returned to research work with Ning Qingyun.

Because I will fly to the United States at the end of the month to participate in the IMU National Mathematicians Conference, a lot of work must be arranged in advance.

For example, it is necessary to determine the new cooperative research model that currently integrates the scientific research forces of meteorological centers around the world.

Qin Ke's initial big data analysis research model is that, under his guidance, meteorological centers in various countries will carry out data sorting, cleaning, integration and screening of extreme climate disasters and natural disasters in their respective countries (regions) in the early and mid-term, so as to eliminate irregularities. , disordered and chaotic raw data becomes an ordered and valuable data flow.

As for the advanced data processing functions in the later stage, it will be undertaken by his newly established "Global Extreme Climate Big Data Advanced Analysis Team". This team, which brings together the world's best mathematical analysis experts, will conduct advanced data analysis, conduct multi-angle and multi-level analysis of the data flow in the previous link, extract the most useful information from it, and summarize the most effective influencing factors. and trend factors were verified, and finally the iron triangle composed of Qin Ke, Ning Qingyun, and Lao Tao carried out the optimization and deduction of the "Global Extreme Climate Prediction and Analysis Large Model".

However, there is still a problem that must be solved as soon as possible, and that is that the computing power of LV4's Shimmer has once again become a bottleneck.

To be honest, Weiguang’s computing power is actually super strong.

Behind Weiguang is the data center of Qing Ning Technology, with thousands of high-end servers as a computing resource pool, and the Qing Ning operating system specially optimized by Qin Ke as the underlying support. Even with the most advanced supercomputing in the world today, Comparing comprehensive computing power, Weiguang can also rank among the top three in the world.

In addition, Shiguang's upgrade progress is close to LV5, and through long-term training, he has become extremely good at data operations and mathematical modeling. He is ranked first in the world in this regard. No matter how advanced artificial intelligence and supercomputing in other countries are, he can't. Undertake such difficult big data computing and big data modeling that require strong AI assistance.

But no matter how powerful the computing power is, it cannot withstand the greater demand for use. Whether it is the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, the "Global Extreme Climate Big Data Advanced Analysis Team", or Qin Ke's final modeling, they must use Shimmer's LV4 artificial intelligence and its computing power, so that Shimmer has to process The amount of data is simply too large.

——These data include all the climate data of the entire Xiaguo, as well as the extreme climate disaster data recently sent by several major meteorological centers such as the European Meteorological Center and the Austrian Meteorological Center for decades. The amount of data processed per second must be in petabytes. to calculate.

Such a terrifying amount of data and calculations caused Weiguang to repeatedly remind Qin Ke that "resources are extremely tight" and "computing resources need to be further expanded."

However, further expansion of the server resource pool under the traditional architecture will only lead to an exponential increase in the difficulty of resource management, and mutual communication delays have become a bottleneck that cannot be ignored. Generally speaking, the disadvantages outweigh the benefits.

The best way to increase computing power is to directly upgrade servers to quantum computers - unfortunately, quantum chips are not yet mature, let alone developing quantum computers that can be mass-produced.

The most feasible way is to use a new super-powerful computing server with the "dream chip" developed with the latest "new carbon crystal composite nanomaterial" as the core. This is also the plan currently adopted by Qin Ke. He has previously asked Yang Chengke The uncle’s secretary, Lu Xinping, asked Xia Xin International and Hua Petal Company to design and manufacture 5,000 AI intelligent application reasoning dedicated servers and big data analysis dedicated servers for him.

However, it was previously said that these new servers would not arrive until early November at the earliest. When Qin Ke was worrying about the half-month time difference, Feng Yigang, the director of the Qingning Technology Data Center, happened to call.

"Mr. Qin, I would like to report to you that our data center has begun to receive the batch of 5,000 AI intelligent application reasoning dedicated servers and big data analysis dedicated servers today. The manufacturer has sent people to check the infrastructure environment here. He said that he can come in and install it tomorrow."

Qin Ke perked up: "The goods arrived today? Didn't I say before that the goods would arrive in early November?"

"Yes, the supply is ahead of schedule." Feng Yigang explained: "It is said that in the past two months, Huaban's factory has stopped several other production lines, just to fully ensure the production of our batch of servers, so it has been shipped ahead of schedule. Half a year. Thanks to you, if I hadn’t known that this batch of goods was prepared for you to use for global extreme climate data analysis, the boss of Huaban would not have made such a production plan."       "I will send you a message then. Send me an email to thank you. Lao Feng, have you sent the test data of these new servers?"

"Sent it. I just forwarded it to your email. I took a quick look and found that the overall performance of a single server is about 45 times that of our current single server. It's a terrifying computing power. It only requires about 120 servers. It can match our current entire computing power resource pool. The research institution that developed the 'dream chip' this time is really amazing. Unfortunately, this research institution is very mysterious. No one knows what team in which research institution did the research. The only thing that came out was that it was from a research institution in the capital..."

Qin Ke smiled and said nothing. This time the "dream chip" caused great shock in the world's IT market. Countries are frantically searching for the secret of its performance far beyond the times, and are trying their best to find out about its research institutions. .

It's just that the "Qingbei Integrated Circuit and Chip Joint R&D Innovation Center" has been deeply hidden from the beginning. All R&D personnel of the "Chip Materials Research Team" have signed a strict confidentiality agreement. They claim to the outside world that they are still researching the previous " "Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor Technology Direction". Although this direction is also popular, the competition is too fierce and their results are not outstanding. Therefore, it has been almost a year since the "Dream Chip" was launched, and not many people still know which research institution it is. , not to mention the mysterious "Mr. Q" standing behind this team.

Now it is said that foreign chip giants have discovered that the key to the powerful performance of the "Dream Chip" lies in the chip material. However, Qin Ke deliberately concealed the true performance of the chip material and added many functions that were of little use but made the internal structure of the material more complex. Design, even the international chip giants whose research capabilities are far superior to Xia Guo, cannot study it clearly and carry out successful imitation within two or three years.

In other words, within the next two to three years, Xia's chip industry will still be at the top of the world and continue to encroach on the international market. It can also take this opportunity to introduce more advanced lithography machine technology from abroad.

Of course, Qin Ke doesn't pay much attention to these things anymore, and he doesn't have so much time and energy to take care of these things.

"Okay, let's not make wild guesses about these things. Lao Feng, you should first arrange the installation and debugging of the new server according to our original switching plan as soon as possible."

"Don't worry, Mr. Qin, our team has already made various preparations and emergency plans according to the plan. We guarantee to complete the launch and testing of 2500 new servers as planned within a week, and complete the switching of the computing resource pool before you go abroad. ."

Weiguang is currently undertaking important computing tasks and cannot be completely stopped. It can only reduce the computing power by half and stop half of the servers to free up cabinet space to install new servers. After the migration of Weiguang and data is completed, , and then complete the replacement of the other half of the old and new servers.

The workload is huge and cumbersome, but supervisor Feng Yigang has led the team to make careful arrangements in advance and formulated an extremely detailed switching plan and submitted it to Qin Ke for review, so Qin Ke does not have to follow up and worry about it personally.

The only thing he felt was a pity was that the system's special branch technology, "artificial intelligence," was still a short way from being upgraded.

"Artificial intelligence: LV4, next level: LV5, required technology points: 4687/5000."

It seems that there are only a little more than 300 technology points left to upgrade, but you must know that "artificial intelligence" was upgraded to LV4 more than three years ago. Three full years have passed, and only about 2700 technology points have been added. , this is the result of Qin Ke and his team’s continuous use of low light to analyze and model climate data with extremely large amounts of data.

If no system tasks are issued to obtain these more than 300 technology points, it is estimated that it will take at least three months.

Of course, if Weiguang's computing power resource pool is expanded by 45 times, so that the amount of data it can process concurrently is increased by 45 times, the upgrade progress should also be accelerated.

Qin Ke is still very curious about what Shimmer will be like after it reaches LV5.

After all, his understanding of "artificial intelligence" now exceeds that of most computer experts in the world. He knows every line of code of LV4's Shimmer. He has been constantly making small repairs and optimizations in the past three years. This makes Weiguang become an increasingly qualified "right-hand assistant".

Qin Ke believes that the current Shimmer is pretty perfect in terms of code. So, what kind of innovative content will the Shimmer's "LV5 code" recorded in the system contain? Will Shimmer truly have the ability to learn, reason, and solve problems independently like humans? Even have the same "emotions" and "self-awareness" as human beings, as described in science fiction movies?

No matter what, even if the LV5 code is obtained, it will not be easily used to upgrade Shimmer until Qin Ke fully understands it, so as to avoid the out-of-control state in which artificial intelligence harms human society and controls human beings in the future.

……

The calendar was turning page by page, and the server replacement work in Qingning Technology Data Center was in full swing. Qin Ke took Ning Qingyun to take a trip and personally tested two of the AI ​​intelligent application reasoning dedicated servers and big data Analyze dedicated servers.

The flying response speed is really great. With the server version of the Lime operating system, it is so smooth without any lag. Qin Ke ran more than 50 test tasks in one go, and the CPU usage was still only about %. We are still far from reaching the bottleneck.

Qin Ke was very satisfied, and looking at the progress of the shelf test, he could personally carry out the "moving work" of Shimmer before leaving for the United States.

During this period, the "Global Extreme Climate Big Data Advanced Analysis Team" has begun to work together while getting into work. After several joint video conferences, the meteorological centers of various countries unanimously voted to adopt the "new cooperation" proposed by Qin Ke. Research Model", and quickly reorganized the research team and started research work according to Qin Ke's division of labor.

Countries in the northern hemisphere are also mobilizing on all fronts to prepare for the upcoming "Little Ice Age."

In the blink of an eye, the night of October 10th arrived. The brutal winter had already entered the northern hemisphere, and the average temperature in Beijing dropped from 28 degrees Celsius to single digits.

Miss Qiu only stayed in the world for more than a month before she had to lift up her skirt and leave sadly.

Qin Ke was still telling stories to his daughter and son at home, when supervisor Feng Yigang called and reported that the latest 2500 new servers arriving at Qingning Technology Data Center had been put on the shelf and tested, and the network and storage were all in place. Already connected to the current old resource pool.

Qin Ke tapped the screen of his phone lightly and smiled at the robot-shaped Shimmer on it: "Let's go, Shimmer, I'll take you to see the 'new home'. This 'new home' is very spacious!"