Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1948 Super Computing Power
"The rules of Gobang are very simple. Both sides take turns placing pieces on the board, and the first one to form a line of five pieces wins." Zhou Zhi said, "It is almost the simplest chess game in the world, but the competition difficulty is actually not low. It also involves many skills such as set patterns, chess theory, and sequence."

The rules of Gobang are indeed simple. After Zhou Zhi explained it to Mai Xiaomiao, Mai Xiaomiao also felt that the current system was very good for training with this game. Then Mai Xiaomiao thought of a question: "Doesn't the player who makes the first move in this game have an advantage?"

"Well, that's true. So in official international competitions, there will be some rules like forbidden hands."

Zhou Zhi logged into the Clover system and retrieved the source code for the Gobang game: "Here is the code. It was written by Little Quail. The rules are not complicated."

Mai Xiaomiao felt that reading the code was much clearer than listening to Zhou Zhi's explanation: "Then I'll study it."

"I have an idea. How about we register a QQ account for this system?"

"What do you mean?" Mai Xiaomiao was a little confused by Zhou Zhi's intermittent ideas.

"Don't you want it to learn how to play chess?" Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "Isn't the best teacher the one who plays the game of QQ?"

"Let's register an account for this system, for example, Xiaozhi, and let it participate in online games as a player, and complete training and learning in the process of playing chess with others. What do you think?"

"That's a good idea!" Mai Xiaomiao said with a smile, "What model learning needs most is extensive and diverse samples, as well as a large number of connections. Online games can meet these needs!"

"Then it's settled." Zhou Zhi did what he said: "I'll register the account, and the rest is up to you!"

That night, a novice chess player named "Xiaozhi" was born. This chess player was a typical "bad guy with a strong addiction to chess". He could only chat simply and focused his main energy on playing chess.

The next day, Zhou Zhi reported this attempt to Director Song and Dean Mai.

Director Song and Dean Mai both thought it was child's play at first, but when they thought about it carefully, they couldn't think of a more suitable project.

After getting the nod from the information scientists, Director Song called Zhou Zhi: "Elbow, isn't it a bit embarrassing to study on the Internet? Do you want to contact the Chinese Chess Institute?"

If Xiaozhi was really his son, Zhou Zhi would have agreed right now. Unfortunately, he was not. Zhou Zhi felt that he did not need a professional yet. "It is not necessary now, but if I want to learn Go from Gobang in the future, I will definitely learn from the masters of the Go Academy."

"I heard you won a game last night?"

"This..." Zhou Zhi was a little amused: "Even if we don't rely on this system and use linear algorithms to develop computer chess players, the winning rate is much higher than Xiaozhi."

"Xiaozhi?" "Well, this is the nickname we gave to the cellular neural computing system. When we play chess with netizens online, we use this name."

Director Song found it hard to imagine how such a flexible and even somewhat funny approach could be found if this matter was led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. However, once he had an idea, he told the Chinese Academy of Sciences about it. After some research, the experts told him that the answer was - it was quite suitable, and could even be said to be the most suitable one at the moment.

The verification results returned by the supercomputing power evaluation program are not deceptive. Zhou Zhi even pointed out in the report that the power of Mai Xiaomiao's nonlinear computing system is not actually reflected in the resources currently available.

The real power of this thing will only be brought into play after integrating huge amounts of computing power devices at the level of hundreds of thousands, millions, and tens of millions in the future. At this scale, the linear management system will need to consume massive amounts of computing power to realize its own management functions, let alone integrate computing power, thus becoming a behemoth that devours computing power.

The advantages of nonlinear computing systems will be fully demonstrated. The computing power required for resource management and allocation will be extremely low, and the remaining resources will be used entirely for normal task processing. The computing power integrated from tens of millions of ordinary computers can even exceed any of the most advanced supercomputers currently available.

Of course, the ultimate goal of this system is not to integrate tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of ordinary computers to form computing power. What it can ultimately integrate is the various computing units on supercomputers, achieving rapid expansion of supercomputers and dynamic allocation of computing power, allowing supercomputer performance to be improved by orders of magnitude without adding too much hardware.

In addition, there are many other applications, and it has very broad prospects in nuclear physics, astronomy, meteorology, and big data statistics.

In other words, the Mai Xiaomiao system is like Han Xin's strategy of selecting soldiers, the more the better. The larger the system, the smaller the proportion of resources used for system management. Compared with the linear computing system where management resources and computing resources grow proportionally, the advantage of the nonlinear system will become more and more prominent as the performance of individual devices improves and the scale of the system expands.

Following supercomputers, China has caught up with or even begun to lead the world's most advanced level in another important aspect of information technology.

It's a pity that Zhouzhi can only provide so many resources to Mai Xiaomiao for now, and these are the resources that the most powerful group in the country can provide her. After all, we are still in the initial stage of the Internet era, and Xiaozhi only has a few years to practice his skills in Go.

Even under the premise of being constrained by limited resources, Xiaozhi can still exert 73% of the computing power of the linear computing system. Theoretically, if the resources are doubled, Xiaozhi will be able to catch up with the capabilities of the linear computing system.

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What does this mean? This is equivalent to Clover Group using only a bunch of mid-range computers, minicomputers, servers and even personal computers, and after integrating them through Xiaozhi, they have become a supercomputer with a computing power of about 400 million times per second.

It's amazing, because China's first supercomputer, which passed acceptance in 1983, had a computing power of 100 million times per second. The Galaxy II, which was just accepted last year, has a computing power that has increased by an order of magnitude, reaching 1 billion times per second.

Clover Group only needs to invest a few million more to double the capacity of the current neural network laboratory hardware, and it will get a supercomputing system with computing power between Galaxy 1 and Galaxy 2. How can such a return not make everyone overjoyed? !
The following days were back on track again. Mai Xiaomiao became extremely busy, and the laboratory began to frantically recruit heroes from all walks of life. The various problems at all levels and in all aspects that Xiaozhi encountered also needed to be solved urgently, and even Zhou Zhi was involved with a lot of energy.

The consolation is that Mai Xiaomiao no longer has time to ask Zhou Zhi to explain the various allusions in "Su Chu" that he cannot understand.

In fact, there is no need for Zhou Zhi to explain more, because the habit of "doing academic popularization in the comment section" that Zhou Zhi started in the previous chapters has also infected many book lovers.

There are many book lovers who like to study and learn. Now the search engine function of Clover Browser is becoming more and more powerful, especially in searching for literary and historical materials, which is an absolute strength. Book lovers will integrate the information into the comment area, and sometimes even have heated discussions. In some chapters, the number of words in the comments far exceeds the number of words in the chapter.