Riding the wind of rebirth

"This girl is actually quite good." After such a long night, it was already very late. Feng Xueshan took Mai Xiaomiao to settle down again, and then returned to the study. She looked at Zhou Zhi with both anger and amusement, and said to Zhou Zhi: "You are really capable. You bullied the little girl. According to what you said, she has such a high academic level, but she is also simple and kind..."

"Is this what you call kindness?" Zhou Zhi's elbows and knees were still burning with pain, so he raised his hands to show Feng Xueshan.

"She was scared by you and her brain short-circuited." Feng Xueshan was scared at the time, but now thinking back, she found it indescribably funny: "A person I secretly follow suddenly appears in front of me and comes to accuse me. No one's first reaction would be good."

"Elbow, have you noticed? She is very interested in you."

"That's all thanks to Mr. Mai. He created an inexplicable hostility for me." Zhou Zhi said, "It seems that this old man likes to nag at home, and even academicians can't avoid it..."

"I don't think that's the case. The girl was probably a little unconvinced at first, but now she's interested in you." Feng Xueshan said as she looked at the plan in Zhou Zhi's hand: "Otherwise, she wouldn't be so concerned and even come up with this security upgrade plan for the group."

Zhou Zhi sighed: "This is not a security upgrade plan, this is a new industry plan, the outlet for the next 20 years."

"Just like the Internet now?" Although Feng Xueshan didn't understand technology, she had been influenced by it at Clover and understood how wild the trends in the Internet era were.

"Well, that's about right. If the country makes plans ahead of time, it will be possible to catch up with or even lead the world's development trends."

"If that's the case, you'd better hold on to this girl." Feng Xueshan had an inexplicable smile on her face: "Listening to your conversation, it seems that all the previous jobs in the group were preparations for this girl."

"The fit is quite high. Our COS itself is called a 'cross-platform operating system', which is very suitable for Internet of Things and is consistent with her research direction. But I didn't expect it to come so soon." Zhou Zhi was concentrating on the plan in his hand and didn't notice Feng Xueshan's smile and the hidden meaning in her words.

Feng Xueshan didn't care whether Zhou Zhi understood her or not. Seeing Zhou Zhi still studying the information in his hand, she sighed and said, "Why don't you go to bed early? It's getting late. Don't you have to take her to the group to meet Tianyu Lidong and the others tomorrow?"

"Oh, go to sleep first. Thank you, Xueshan, for making you work so hard all night." Zhou Zhi said, "Don't worry about me. I still have to hurry up and modify this plan according to the direction we discussed at the end."

Feng Xueshan nodded, walked to the door of the study and closed it gently. Before closing it, she looked down on Zhou Zhi again.

Let the little girl go to bed first, but you stay up here late, shouting and fighting for a long time. Aren't you just being soft-hearted?
Zhou Zhi is trying hard to recall the knowledge from his previous life. As a former technician in the information technology department of a central enterprise, when technologies such as big data, blockchain, and cloud computing began to emerge, they were among the first people to come into contact with their applications.

But the problem is also very serious, that is, they simply popularized some superficial theoretical knowledge, and then started to use it. The installation of the system was completed by engineers from outsourced companies. Their main task was to use these systems and do some simple maintenance work at most. The problem now is that Clover Group has to develop the systems that it has used before. It is definitely far from enough to rely on its previous poor professional knowledge.

Fortunately, Mai Xiaomiao's plan only pointed out a general idea and research and development direction, and did not involve engineering details for the time being. The content that needed to be supplemented was just covered by the "introduction" and "concept" that Zhou Zhi had come into contact with in his previous life.

It is impossible for the Clover Group to develop resources like those of the National Supercomputing Center. The idea proposed by Zhou Zhi is to accumulate them. Relying on the Clover COS operating system that can realize the underlying Internet of Things, the resources of multiple computers on the network can be integrated. The resources of each computer can become part of the total network computing power resources. The resources of countless such computers added together can get a computing power system with super strong computing power, even reaching the level of ten or a hundred supercomputers in the National Supercomputing Center.

This is the "overtaking on a curve" project that Zhou Zhi designed for Clover. At least so far, no operating system designed by any company in the world has such a function.

This is not because others don’t know how to do it, but because system developers are still influenced by the traditional “personal computer” thinking and have not considered the two directions of “ubiquitous aggregation” and “computing power network” at all.

Of course, they don't need it. Currently, even the world-class financial institutions with the highest requirements for computing power cannot process more data and computing power than a mainframe and storage cluster can handle. Zhou Zhi's computing network is a helpless workaround in the eyes of the big guys. Think about it, assemble a hundred PCs, connect them with a network, assign tasks to them through COS, and synthesize the output results after completing their respective computing tasks. Whether it is hardware, software, performance, manpower, electricity, site, or even the overall cost of equipment, it may not be as cost-effective as buying a minicomputer to complete the task.

This kind of thinking once prevailed in Clover. Most people thought that Clover's COS plus this function was useless. It was not until Zhouzhi found an application scenario for them and generated benefits that the voices of opposition disappeared.

This application is the transformation of Sony's camcorders and Panasonic's digital cameras. After loading Clover's cross-platform operating system MINICOS, these two high-end devices can directly access their storage space using computers in the local area network, and the camera can also be directly connected to the printer to print photos.

Another device that is even more popular among teenagers is the MP3 player. The newer models have a "music moving" function, which allows two players to connect through mutual authorization and share music with each other when they are close to each other.

In later generations, there was a more ideal technology to achieve this function, that is Bluetooth, but the principles of the two are different. Although the theory of Bluetooth originated in 1942, the application guidance is still under research. Historically, the first version was not launched until 1999, and it was not put into use due to the risk of data leakage. It was not until the launch of version 2003 in 1.2 that the security problem was solved and it was included in the list of "available" technologies.

Today, this technology is being jointly developed by Ericsson, Nokia, IBM, Toshiba, INTEL, and Clover. However, even though the technology has not yet been released, Zhou Zhi has already regarded it as a "low-end alternative" to Clover COS and MINICOS.

The only reason to participate is that the low-end market is also a big market.

Radio frequency chips are quite expensive, so the cost that Zhou Zhi saved on storage for WinClover Player was shamelessly added. In the end, teenagers who are keen on upgrading electronic products, or rather their parents, have to pay for it.

In short, Clover's COS has been aiming to be a cross-platform operating system from the beginning. As an operating system for terminal devices in the cloud, it is a very suitable benchmark platform for integrating and distributing computing power. (End of this chapter)