Super-divine civilization begins with the civilian use of dark energy technology

Chapter 227 273 Chapter [-] Supercomputing Center and AR Training System
Shi Zhaonan rolled his eyes and continued to persuade: "I think it is better to run a formal college. If you turn it into a training institution, what will you do with the enrollment? Are you recruiting people from the society?"

"You know, fresh graduates are really different from people in society. How much knowledge can people remember after they have been in the society for a few years?"

"Instead of spending energy on making them study again, it is better to recruit recent college entrance examination students."

Jiang Fan shook his head and said firmly: "You don't need to say any more, it's settled."

"If nothing happens, I'll leave first."

"see you later."

After saying that, he stood up and left without stopping.

The reason he had so many changes this time was because the well was too deep and he didn't want to go there.

In the past, establishing a company to promote agriculture, selling agricultural fertilizers, and agricultural products was a major event that benefited the country and the people. Big bosses were personally watching over it, and those with vested interests did not dare to take the lead.

Next, other industrial opponents are mainly leaders in various industries. Facing these opponents, Jiang Fan can directly engage in business wars or use technology to crush them.

But education and the space agency cannot be solved by business war.

Can he still confront the space agency?
It is really troublesome to integrate the academy into the education system. Instead of wasting time and energy, it is better to turn it into a training institution, as long as it can train qualified astronauts.

As long as the training organization doesn't issue industry-certified certificates, no one can read it.

There are so many training institutions that don’t issue certificates, and no one can say anything.

Jiang Fan returned to his office, took out a document and looked at it carefully.

He had previously launched a quantum chip research project. With the support of his data, this project finally succeeded after nearly a year of research.

Although the accuracy of optical quantum chips only reaches 100nm, it is still a huge progress.

Regardless of the size of the quantum chip or the stability of the quantum chip, they all met Jiang Fan's requirements.

After all, quantum chips have just started, and it is already very good to be able to achieve 100nm.

The optical quantum chip has come out, and it is time to build a supercomputing center with the optical quantum chip as the core.

As a large group, Pangu Xinhuo Group’s current supercomputer is still an ordinary supercomputer, which does not meet the rank of Pangu Xinhuo Group.

The world's large groups all have top supercomputing centers, and each large group has put a lot of effort into its own supercomputing center.

For example, Microsoft has proposed a plan for an undersea supercomputing center.

To put it simply, a supercomputing center is a data center composed of hundreds or thousands of servers, which are mainly responsible for data calculation and storage.

Among the operating costs of the entire data center, electricity expenses account for almost 70%.Therefore, when designing a data center, one of the most important factors is whether it can reduce electricity costs.

Microsoft's true water-cooling technology this time should strictly be called sea-cooling technology, which can be considered a unique method.

Microsoft hired Naval Group, a manufacturer of military ships and submarines, to design an underwater data center that uses the same cooling technology as submarines.Cooling is circulated by pumping seawater into radiator pipes on the back of each server rack and then back into the ocean.

At the same time, in order to avoid corrosion problems caused by oxygen and water vapor, researchers sealed the server and filled it with nitrogen to isolate oxygen and water vapor while keeping it away from human interference.

On June 2018, 6, Microsoft sank a cylindrical supercomputing center about 1 meters long and nearly 12 meters in diameter into the seabed of the Orkney Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. This device is wrapped with 3 servers and can store 864PB of data. .

After running on the seabed for two years, Microsoft brought it ashore for analysis in June 2020.

After evaluation by researchers, its performance in all aspects is better than that of traditional data centers, and the failure rate in water is one-eighth that on land.

Of course, when placed on the seabed, data transmission and power transmission must be considered.

The first is the issue of electricity. The supercomputing center will use the flow of sea water to generate electricity.Tidal speeds there can reach up to 9 miles per hour, and wave cycles can produce waves as high as 10 feet high, which can reach over 60 feet in height during storms.

Not only are there tidal turbines and other devices on the seabed that can generate electricity, but there are also towering wind turbines on the coast and solar panels covering the roofs.

These devices are connected via underwater cables.

Of course, while connected to the shore power generation equipment, it is also linked to the Orkney Island power grid.

According to data provided by Microsoft, with the support of a variety of power generation equipment, when the supercomputing center is operating at full capacity, the power required to be supplied by the grid is 6000kWh per day.

The cylindrical supercomputing center, which is about 12 meters long and nearly 3 meters in diameter, consumes 6000KWh of electricity a day, which is very low.

Finally, there is the issue of data transmission.

Underwater optical cables not only include power supply optical cables, but also data transmission optical cables. The data transmission optical cables are optical fiber cables with ultra-fast transmission speeds.

The transmission speed is fast not only because of optical fiber transmission, but also because more than half of the world's population lives about 200 kilometers from the coast.

If data centers could be sunk into the sea near coastal cities, data could be transmitted over short distances, allowing for faster web browsing and smoother videos and games.

Of course, there will also be trolls who say that such a supercomputing center will affect the marine environment.

But after several years of testing and verification by the Microsoft team, the conclusion is that these problems will not occur.Because the ocean is very large, coupled with tides and ocean currents, the heat exchange efficiency is relatively high.

Observation results over such a long period of time show that the water within a few meters around the data center has increased its temperature by at most one thousandth of a percent, which means that the temperature change is almost unmeasurable.

In addition, the surface of the data center is designed with a smooth coating, which prevents dirt, bacteria, etc. from accumulating on the surface of the container, and prevents marine life from gathering on the surface of the container, thus achieving good protection measures.

Now Microsoft plans to invest 60 billion to build such supercomputing centers in major coastal cities.

There are similar plans in the country.

In HZ Qiandao Lake, Alibaba Cloud has established a supercomputing center with a construction area of ​​30000 square meters and a total of 11 floors, which can accommodate at least 5 devices.

The annual average temperature in the Qiandao Lake area is 17 degrees. The lake water can be pumped up from a height of 35 meters through a completely sealed pipe and flowed through the data center to help cool down the servers.Eventually they will flow through the 2.5-kilometer central axis stream, presented as an urban landscape, and then return cleanly to Qiandao Lake after natural cooling.

This method is enough to save more than 8% of the data center's cooling energy consumption.

In the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Apple iCloud data center, Xinhua data center, Penguin Yunnan Base, Penguin Data Center Phase II, operator data center, etc. are all under construction.

Why did these technology giants choose the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau?
Simply put, there are four reasons: high altitude, low temperature, low electricity price, and non-seismic zone.

As the altitude increases, the temperature will drop and the wind will become much stronger.

If there is more wind, then the natural wind will be sufficient and it will continue to take away the heat.At the same time, GZ itself is rich in water resources, and there are many existing thermal power plants in the west, with abundant power and energy.

As for the seismic zone, it is okay to choose a non-seismic zone in Guizhou, which is so huge.

However, Jiang Fan did not intend to use any of the above strategies, because compared to wasting calories, he had a better way.

That is to use high energy-absorbing materials to make a heat dissipation system. First, use a liquid with a large specific heat capacity as a coolant to absorb the heat in the supercomputing center, and then let these liquids pass through pipes made of high energy-absorbing materials. As long as the pipes are long enough, It can convert thermal energy into electrical energy and realize the recovery of electrical energy.

In fact, in terms of energy conservation, an undersea supercomputing center is more suitable. However, Pangu Xinhuo Group is a high-tech company, and it is also a high-tech company targeted by the world. The safety of the supercomputing center deployed on the seabed cannot be guaranteed.

If it was destroyed every three days, his supercomputing center would not be able to function normally.

For Pangu Xinhuo, electricity is actually not a problem. With the support of high energy-absorbing materials, the company's solar power panels are very efficient.

With the strong promotion of Pangu Xinhuo, farmers have installed high-energy-absorbing solar power generation systems on their roofs.

In order to popularize this system, Pangu Xinhuo provided a large number of discounts in terms of installation and sales, so the subsidiary Tianmeng Solar did not make much money at all.

All contribute to the overall layout of the group.

In fact, even if the discount was huge, people were still in a wait-and-see state at first. It was not until the emergence of high-range electric vehicles that people became active.

With the rise of short video platforms, people’s access to knowledge has increased.

Many people now know the trick of the charging pile industry. They attract customers with low prices at first, and then the electricity prices gradually increase.

There are countless such examples in the business world. For example, in the takeout industry, it was very cheap at the beginning, and then the price slowly soared. In the past ten years, now the takeout platform can cut leeks at will, or both the store and the customer can cut it. Now it is even more difficult to reach out. On to the delivery boy.

Nowadays, electric vehicles are promoted as cheap electricity, but as time goes by, the proportion of electric vehicles is getting higher and higher, and the electricity fees at charging piles will definitely skyrocket.

In order to avoid being cut off by charging piles, people choose to generate their own electricity for their own use.

Installing high-energy-absorbing solar power generation systems has become a trend.

Thanks to this trend, the country has no shortage of electricity at all.

Therefore, saving electricity is not Jiang Fan's main concern. His main concern is safety.

Jiang Fan plans to build supercomputing centers across the country to supply the group's branches.

Among them, the supercomputing center with the most powerful computing power is, of course, the headquarters of Pangu Xinhuo Group.

Jiang Fan listed all the constructions he could think of, and then sent the summarized questions to the optical quantum chip research team.

Now that this team has succeeded in research and development, let this team be responsible for the design of the supercomputing center and the optical quantum chip production line!
After arranging things at the supercomputing center, Jiang Fan focused his attention on the AR simulation training system.

This system refers to the system on the spacecraft. Strictly speaking, it is an observation system.

The bridges of spaceships in science fiction movies all have large transparent glass.

A real spaceship would never be designed that way, not because the glass would be unsafe, but because it would expose the ship's weaknesses.

Since the spaceship is so big, the enemy will of course attack the bridge first.

So those who designed the transparent bridge are entirely asking for their own fault.

It is better to design the bridge in the center of the spacecraft.

As for the issue of observation, of course it relies on cameras and various sensors.

There is a large screen simulated by AR on the bridge of the spacecraft. This large screen can observe the surrounding environment of the spacecraft without blind spots.

AR (augmented reality) is a technology that combines the real world with the virtual world by overlaying virtual elements in the real world. AR technology senses and tracks the real-world environment, and then superimposes virtual objects, images or information on the real scene in the user's perception.

AR technology can be implemented in a variety of ways, including using smartphones, tablets, AR glasses or headsets, etc.These devices typically use cameras, sensors, and computing power to sense the user's environment and blend virtual content with real scenes.

Through AR, users can see virtual elements that interact with the real world.For example, in AR applications, users can observe virtual characters, three-dimensional models, information markers or other image effects in the real environment through the camera.These virtual elements can interact with the real environment, such as placing virtual objects on the table, displaying virtual paintings on the wall, etc.

AR technology is widely used in many fields, including games, education, medical care, design, entertainment and business, etc.It provides users with a more immersive and interactive experience, allowing them to interact more closely with virtual worlds and information.

AR systems are of great help to astronaut training.

AR systems have long appeared on Blue Star. The difference is that the spacecraft simulation is larger and more detailed, and the data processing speed is also different.

What makes this difference, in addition to algorithms, is mainly computing power. Now with optical quantum chips, computing power is no longer a problem. As for algorithms, there are ready-made algorithms in spacecraft technology (spacecraft technology includes hardware and software).

Of course, Jiang Fan's ambitions don't end there. The AR training system not only simulates the surrounding environment, but also allows people to interact with the simulated environment.

There are also technologies that generate interaction, that is, auxiliary motion equipment. When a person makes a jumping action, the auxiliary motion device will provide a real touch, and at the same time, it will also allow people to jump in a simulated environment.

At the same time, the AR simulation system will also generate corresponding feedback.

Blue Star actually already has similar technology, that is, VR games, but the feedback system of VR games is weak and can only feed back the movements of the head and hands.

AR is an enhanced version of VR, giving people a more realistic experience.

For example, if a person hits a rock in a virtual environment, it will feel like hitting a rock in real life.

Of course, this feedback can be adjusted and will not really kill people.

In the virtual world, if a person hits a rock and falls to the ground and rolls around, people in reality will also fall to the ground and roll around. This is the AR training system envisioned by Jiang Fan.

This system is mainly used for astronaut training.

Of course, it will also be used for military training, mining training, engineering operation training in the future...

Even if the computing power is sufficient, war simulation training can be carried out.

This system was very important to the future of Xinhuo Group, so Jiang Fan decided to lead the team himself.

He immediately convened a research and development team. Fortunately, he had more than 1000 assistants. Even if he could not find relevant professionals, he could still find replacements.

Since this is a relatively long-term project, now we are designing scenes for astronaut training, and we will also design other scenes in the future, so Jiang Fan is very cautious in selecting personnel.

(End of this chapter)