Riding the wind of rebirth

"Xiao Zhou is a management talent, and he considers things mostly from a management perspective." The general said, "But this reason is not enough to convince us to agree to this plan."

“In fact, we also have a design for a ‘computing black box’.”

"Oh?"

"Xiao Miao has just talked about the advantage of the POW algorithm, which is that it is difficult for external customers to crack it. According to our deduction, even if a large computer is used to crack its dynamic password, it will take ten years."

"Our idea is to implement it based on the allocation system of virtual computing power, that is, all the computing power devices currently integrated into the neural network system are unknown and invisible to external users. We call it a 'black box'."

"This black box can be one or multiple. In other words, our computing system can also be divided into multiple virtual computing devices."

“When performing such a division, each black box is protected by the POW algorithm. Even if we know that there are multiple black boxes in the system, if the user of one black box wants to break into another black box, he must break through the POW protection rules. With current technology, this is almost impossible.”

"For a super system administrator like Xiao Miao, such black boxes also exist, because in her eyes, the system is distributed and discrete. She controls the resource integration of each black box, and she cannot obtain the data calculations performed in the black box by accessing each individual device, because each individual device only runs some fragments of user needs."

“This ensures that the leaker can only be one of the users of the black box. Through such isolation, we can ensure that when customers use our computing resources, it will not be known by others.”

"However, the management of the black box is the responsibility of the user himself, and this cannot be supervised or controlled through our authority. The only thing we can do is to ensure that the transaction information in the black box is absolutely true and cannot be tampered with."

"In this case, it's like the office is in your building, rented and managed by us, and you can't enter the office we rent, right?"

"That's about it, but it might be more appropriate to use a company management analogy," Zhou Zhi said. "It's like a super large human resources management company with 20,000 employees. We only manage the personnel of these employees and then outsource them to project R&D companies."

"As for what the R&D companies are using them for, our company is not clear. Moreover, if some of these employees need to take a vacation, our company can always send other personnel to take over the work of the employees on vacation. We still don't know what they are doing, and the project R&D companies don't know that we have changed people. They only care about whether their projects are being carried out according to the manpower investment agreed in advance."

"We are responsible for human resource scheduling and forming a research and development team. We do not care about or interfere with what this team does. You are responsible for using this team and only care about input and output. You do not need to worry about paying them wages, allocating vacation time, and other troublesome tasks."

"Another point that needs to be emphasized is that each member of the team is randomly assigned a part of the task, and it is impossible for everyone to know the entire project. Even if some people are controlled by criminals, it is impossible to restore the project through them."

"From a technical security perspective, this is the limit of what we can do. We can help our customers protect ourselves, and we can help our customers faithfully record all data operations that occur inside the black box and ensure that they cannot be tampered with. But we cannot help our customers prevent information from being stolen from their own black boxes." "In fact, no system in the world can prevent theft by insiders. This can be prevented through management methods. Don't you agree?"

"Xiao Zhou is still very honest." The old general nodded and said, "He basically explained to us what this system can and cannot do at present."

"Everyone, do you have any questions? Whether you are asking Xiaomai or Xiaozhou, feel free to ask. Now we are entering the free question time."

As a new technology, there are too many questions for experts to answer, and the core of many problems and algorithms cannot be explained clearly in a single course. The reason why the institute wants to bring the academy of sciences into the picture is actually due to this reason. Currently, there are too few talents engaged in similar research in China. The few that exist have been recruited by Zhou Zhi with high salaries, and the rest are basically big names in basic mathematical theory.

Fortunately, these experts have always been concerned about the progress of the laboratory's work and provided consulting support to the laboratory. They are no strangers to Xiaozhi. In addition to asking questions, they are actually responsible for half of the work of explaining to the application experts.

The process of simulating nonlinear operations with a neuron-like distributed pattern algorithm is like a bear seeing honey in the eyes of scientists. This temptation is hard to resist, so they raise all kinds of questions.

Zhou Zhi and Mai Xiaomiao also answered them one by one. Zhou Zhi was mainly responsible for answering questions related to engineering management, while Mai Xiaomiao was mainly responsible for answering questions related to technical implementation. They were a perfect match and did not show any shyness at all.

During the discussion, the opinions of several parties gradually converged on one major topic, which was to conduct unified acceptance and verification of Xiaozhi's current operating model.

Academics is a very rigorous issue. Everything Zhou Zhi and Mai Xiaomiao said today needs to be fulfilled during the acceptance. Especially for national-level projects, the acceptance work is often an extremely complicated issue.

If this were done by other software companies, it might be a difficult task. It would take at least several months of preparation before they could initiate an acceptance application.

Fortunately, Zhou Zhi has been trained in two lifetimes and is completely familiar with these things. The management of all Clover project projects is carried out strictly in accordance with international standards, and all outputs are very complete.

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Although everyone now requires that the acceptance work be brought forward and Xiaozhi's current functional design and several key technologies be accepted first, so that the next cooperation project can be carried out after they are qualified, it actually disrupts Zhou Zhi's work plan. However, because the preparations are sufficient and complete, Zhou Zhi nodded in agreement. As long as the scientific branch is connected to a server that can connect to the Internet, the acceptance work of several sub-projects can begin tonight.

"Oh?" The old general was really shocked: "Is the efficiency of the Clover Group so high?"

"In fact, efficiency has decreased." Zhou Zhi was a little amused: "A large amount of engineering document preparation work accounts for 60% of daily work. Many employees in the group are still not familiar with this working mode and complain a lot. We have designed a lot of standard templates and workflows to standardize and simplify, and try to improve work efficiency, but the investment is definitely more than many software companies, just for situations like today." (End of this chapter)