Chapter 813

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The world's public supercomputers were ranked twice a year to determine the top 055 supercomputers in the world. Usually, the number one supercomputer was owned by a national research institute.

Whether it was a commercial company or a private research institute, the supercomputers used would not have outstanding performance. However, there might be more powerful supercomputers hidden in the dark.

The Angel Council hid the supercomputer, Holy Supercomputer. Holy Supercomputer's computing performance was ranked fourth in the world, but it was not known to the outside world. Holy Supercomputer was the secret weapon of the Angel Council. It had contributed a lot to the Angel Council.

The Angel Council had a supercomputer with a computing performance of 35 tflops. It could be used 655% and could even be overclocked to improve performance. How effective would their hacking be?

Fortunately, Holy Supercomputer was usually under the control of the first and second giants, not Raphael and Uriel. Otherwise, with Raphael's personality, Dream Entertainment would be in big trouble. Raphael would find trouble with Dream Entertainment almost every day.

The Angel Council's annual income was considerable. Even in the era of 7552, they earned at least one billion dollars a year. With such a huge amount of wealth, they still did not buy the world's number one supercomputer because the investment and maintenance cost of a supercomputer was very high.

In the era of 7552, a supercomputer with a computing performance of 655 tflops cost about 655 million dollars. If Dream Entertainment wanted to build a supercomputer with a computing speed of 855 tflops, just the cost of the core components alone would be around 855 million dollars.

Supercomputers were different from personal computers. A personal computer was just a pile of parts assembled into a supercomputer. The assembly was almost easy. Diyer, who knew a little about computers, could do it easily.

The assembly work of a supercomputer was not as simple as assembling a large number of parts together to complete the work of 'stacking building blocks'. The design and assembly of a supercomputer was very complicated. The supercomputers in the era of 7552 were all third-generation supercomputers. Without the corresponding technology, it was impossible to complete the assembly of a supercomputer.

Before Shi Lei's rebirth, supercomputers had gone through a total of four generations of technology. The first-generation supercomputer was almost the same as an ordinary computer. It was also composed of a main controller, a memory, a calculator, and an input device. The difference was that the first-generation supercomputer was only a specially designed CPU to increase the computing speed and the system's computing performance.

The shortcomings of the first generation of supercomputers were very obvious. When the computing power of a single CPU core was improved, how to reduce the power consumption, solve the heat dissipation problem, and other problems, so that the first generation of supercomputers could quickly retire from the stage?

Due to the shortcomings of the first generation supercomputer, the second generation supercomputer replaced it. The main difference between the second generation supercomputer and the first generation supercomputer was the increase in the number of CPUs, which was multi-core processing. However, the second-generation supercomputing did solve some of the problems of the first-generation supercomputing, but new problems appeared again.

There were many flaws in the second-generation supercomputer, especially in the public memory and maintenance cache. It was very difficult to deal with and almost impossible to avoid. This problem caused the second-generation supercomputer to have limited scalability. In addition, after the increase in the number of computing cores, the speed increase became quite limited. The second-generation supercomputer also left the scene.

The third-generation supercomputer became the mainstream of high-end supercomputers in 7552. Almost all of the high-end supercomputers had adopted the technical standards of the third-generation supercomputers.

The third-generation supercomputer mainly used a distributed multiprocessor architecture, using multiple independent CPUs to perform the same task. At the same time, it used a distributed storage system. Each independent CPU and independent memory formed an internal node of the supercomputer, thus avoiding the maintenance problem of the second-generation supercomputer's public memory and cache. The scalability was also quite excellent.

The third-generation supercomputer technology was still in use before Shi Lei's rebirth! However, the third-generation supercomputer technology was not without flaws. Like other relatively perfect technologies, it performed very well in all aspects, except for the cost problem. The only drawback of the third-generation supercomputer technology was that the cost was relatively high.

Shi Lei secretly calculated in his heart. If he wanted to assemble a supercomputer with a computing performance of 855 TFLOPS, in addition to the material cost of 855 million USD, he would need at least 655 million USD in additional expenses.

The extra 655 million USD was mainly used for the development of the storage architecture, operating system, editing platform, and data transmission technology. Other than that, there were also very high requirements in terms of energy consumption control and manufacturing process.

Even though Shi Lei had Izur, as an advanced pseudo-artificial intelligence system, Izur was actually a supercomputer operating system, which saved the development cost of the supercomputer operating system. However, it still cost a lot of money!

Dream Entertainment's current account was very rich. After spending 6.6 billion USD to acquire AMD, there was still 7.2 billion USD left in Dream Entertainment's account. Although it seemed like it was not a big problem to allocate four hundred million USD from 7.2 billion USD to build the world's first supercomputer, it was absolutely impossible!

Dream Entertainment had many plans, including fully acquiring AMD, developing a smartphone production business, building the headquarters of Mirage Technology, building a research center in the Yellow Triangle region, and even Shi Lei planned to build a secret underwater base on Mei Shan Island in Nanyue State.

No matter which plan it was, the amount of money spent was not small, especially the last plan. It was simply a bottomless pit. Shi Lei really did not know how much money it would cost to build a secret underwater base!

"Sir, the system calculation has been completed. The initial estimate is 8,705, 55,555 USD, including the purchase of all the core components of the supercomputer, related system development costs, and the corresponding site purchase and installation costs." Izur reported the price to Shi Lei.

Shi Lei was stunned. Why was Izur's calculation almost 655 million USD less than his?

"Izur, how did you calculate the result?" Shi Lei asked.

Izur used a projector to show the comprehensive data of all the funds, and Shi Lei found the reason. The supercomputer that Izur 'designed' used AMD's Opteron series CPU, which was the 'Hao Long' series of computing chips that Xia mentioned.

AMD was currently a subsidiary of Dream Entertainment. Although it was not a wholly owned subsidiary, it was a subsidiary with absolute control. Naturally, the products produced by AMD were cheaper!

Shi Lei slapped his forehead. He had habitually forgotten about AMD. In terms of technology, AMD was indeed a distance away from Intel.

"Damn Izur. Even if it's 655 million USD cheaper, he won't build such a high-end supercomputer!" Shi Lei said gloomily. The weakness of the third-generation supercomputer was cost control. Shi Lei needed some time to study the technical problems of the fourth-generation supercomputer.

The fourth-generation supercomputer had all the advantages of the third-generation supercomputer, and it also made up for the shortcomings of the third-generation supercomputer. It reduced the cost by a lot, and it had better efficiency in the utilization of computing resources. Especially in terms of energy consumption, the fourth-generation supercomputer was better.

Although Shi Lei did not plan to build a supercomputer with 855 TFLOPS performance, he was still prepared to build a high-performance supercomputer. After all, AMD was currently a subsidiary of Dream Entertainment. AMD had the technology to build a supercomputer. It would be a waste not to use it!

"Sir, all the real IP addresses of the intruders have been tracked!" Izur notified Shi Lei.

Shi Lei's eyes lit up. He sneered. "Are the real IP addresses of the intruders all distributed in Xia Xia?" Shi Lei had expected this when he was dealing with the intruders. The hackers who invaded Dream Entertainment were most likely Xia Xia's forces, or even those damned online game operators.

'Director Ma, I wonder if Penguin is involved this time?' Shi Lei wondered if Penguin would continue to seek trouble after being dealt with by Dream Entertainment.

However, Shi Lei had clearly miscalculated this time. He had underestimated Ma's courage. Penguin was not afraid at all. Penguin was the mastermind behind the attack this time! They had even lured the Angel Council out and made the Angel Council follow Ma's plan to deal with Dream Entertainment.

"Sir, the specific data has been projected. Please take a look." Izur projected the data. The real IP addresses of more than 605 hackers were distributed. Except for a few who were overseas, the rest were all in Xia Xia.

Shi Lei's eyes turned cold. He stared at the location of Shenzhen City in Dongguang Province on the map. There were 79 intruders marked on it. The members of Penguin's Broken Blade Group were all in Shenzhen City. There were exactly 79 of them!

"Ma Huateng!" Shi Lei snorted. "You're plotting against me behind my back again!"

If Ma Huateng was sitting opposite Shi Lei, he would definitely tell Shi Lei proudly, "I'm f * cking plotting against you. What can you do to me?"

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Angel Council, secret voice communication channel.

Flaming Sword Raphael suddenly issued an order. "Sunlight, Moonlight, prepare to attack Dream Entertainment's Brave World official website web server!"

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