kingnovel Chapter 547 Preparing for Operation
Chapter 547 Preparing for Operation
While Sisyphus was cautious and trembling, Sorenroth spoke up: "Don't be nervous. I heard that your research has reached a critical stage. I'm just here to observe and learn. Just pretend I'm not here, and everything will be as usual."
The director's tone was gentle, like an older sister talking to her younger brother—no! It was even gentler than an older sister talking to her younger brother! But Sisyphus wouldn't take the person in front of him for granted. He nodded outwardly, but secretly gave a hand gesture to his team members.
This gesture is meant to make them serious. Although it's fine to be a little lax in normal times, when it comes to real assessments, Sisyphus will still require them to pretend to be working very hard and making every second count. In case some laymen don't check grades but rather attitude or discipline, it would be disgusting to be pestered.
Once the order was given, the members of Sisyphus's team all adopted a serious attitude. Soon, someone came up to help him adjust the equipment on his head, using special equipment to remove the existing chip and replace it with a new one.
The extracted chip was sealed inside a mechanical device, and through an electromagnetic-proof quartz chamber, the golden chip could be seen being immersed in liquid nitrogen.
This quantum chip can only be stored and operated in an extremely low temperature environment. The reason why the first-generation device had to be fixed was because it was connected to the cooling system. However, just six months ago, another department of the research institute made a breakthrough by developing a powerful energy supply unit, which allowed the device to be separated from the huge cooling system. The tanks on both sides of the device contain coolant.
Sisyphus had also studied this powerful battery, but as the saying goes, "a trade is like a mountain," he couldn't understand it at all. According to what he gleaned from the other department head over a late-night barbecue, this energy system couldn't even be called a battery, because it was different from traditional chemical batteries and nuclear batteries. It used an energy source that wasn't even fully developed in theory—vacuum energy.
Well...the results were achieved before the theory was perfected...but given that this kind of thing is not an isolated case in history, Sisyphus was not too surprised. As long as it works, the theory will be filled in by later generations.
Moreover, the project he is currently investing his heart and soul in may also create such a miracle.
After the chip was removed, the team members exchanged glances and then connected the device storing the chip to the login node located in this department.
The device on Sisyphus's head actually has the ability to transmit remotely, but the physical chip reading is for secondary verification to prevent errors.
The data is read almost simultaneously with chip insertion.
As far as Sisyphus knew, the most powerful quantum computer array ever built by humankind, Turing One, was located underground at the Loresa Institute. This computer array alone occupied more than 10,000 square meters, and with the supporting cooling and maintenance systems, the total area exceeded tens of square kilometers. The computing power of this computer was so great that it could even be used to calculate chaotic systems. For example, when calculating global climate change, it could provide data on a region accurate to the cubic meter level months in advance.
Thanks to Turing One, the Lonosa Institute does not need heating at all, and even the cost of hot water in the city is almost cheaper than that of cold water. Of course, the heat that heats this water is not generated by Turing One, but by the heat generated by the device that cools Turing One. As a quantum computer, Turing One also needs to operate in ultra-low temperatures, just like this chip. Therefore, the device that cools Turing One has to release twice the amount of waste heat.
However, precisely because its computing power has completely surpassed that of humans, the answers it provides to many previously unsolved questions are sometimes very strange, such as the anomalous light spot that appeared through mathematical calculations when verifying the wave nature of light. But unlike in the past, unless another completely independent computing array comes into existence, humans are completely unable to verify its results and can only choose to believe it.
It was precisely because of Turing's powerful computing ability that the chip could be read in such a short time. If the computer Sisyphus used to play games at home, which could be assembled with a configuration that could be bought on the market, were used to do this task... assuming that Sisyphus's computer had a special interface to read the chip... then it is estimated that even if Sisyphus died, not all the data inside would be read.
Furthermore, reading this chip did not require all of Turing's computing power, but only a small portion of the computing power allocated to his department.
As the data was read, the lights in the laboratory dimmed naturally. Then, the central holographic screen activated, and a massive amount of strings flashed by in an instant, quickly displaying the main interface:
Kajal-Kandel system.
The system interface switched, and then a framework of a human brain was projected, but many parts of this framework were still empty.
Sisyphus ignored the minister who was observing and rushed to the computing terminal, manually matching the newly read data with the existing data. Under his leadership, his team members all returned to their posts. Sisyphus assigned each of them a portion of the data. With their work, some parts of the brain in the Kahal-Kandel system began to flash faintly. Each flash represented the establishment of one or more new simulated neurons. However, despite working from morning until late at night, the projected brain still showed no visible changes.
In the midst of his busy work, Sisyphus glanced up and suddenly realized that he seemed to have forgotten something. He glanced back casually and couldn't help but gasp.
Because Soren Lothar was still standing there, this man whose minutely cash flow could probably buy the life of Sisyphus several times over, had actually been left standing in his department all day, and she hadn't even left on her own?!
So Sisyphus could only clap his hands to wake up the team members who were also engrossed in their work. In the past, he would do this to remind these guys to go home after work. Like Sisyphus, they were usually lazy and found it difficult to get into a working state, but once they got into it, they couldn't stop.
"Hold on, everyone! Hold on!" said Sisyphus.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, I'll be done in about four more hours," someone replied without looking up.
"Hold everything on hold!" Sisyphus could only raise his voice: "The director is still waiting for us!"
So his team members gradually stopped what they were doing and looked at Sisyphus and the director who had never left in surprise.
Sisyphus looked at his second-in-command: "Can we proceed with the most basic operations?"
The deputy, holding the data panel, performed the final data integration, then adjusted his glasses and said:
"According to calculations, the minimum operating requirements have been met."
"Very good, very good!" Sisyphus was also excited upon hearing this answer. He rubbed his hands together and said, "Let's start running it and show our results to Lady Sorenrot."