Chapter 830 East Germany's Network
In South America, fifty nuclear bombs were released! Flix's words were obviously purposeful. You should know that just a few days ago, the United States just issued a statement that if the US aircraft carrier formation was attacked by anti-ship ballistic missiles, the United States would use nuclear bombs to fight back!
After hearing Flix's words, the participants who were immersed in the topic just now came to their senses and simulated them again. After waiting for a month, they would definitely not be able to wait. Now, simulating the nuclear explosion in South America also has certain practical significance, and you can take a look!
"Okay, we're looking forward to it," Thun said. "Now, do we need to go to your computer center?"
At this time, Thun's intention was quite obvious. This kind of simulation of program may require a supercomputer. If there were supercomputers at the University of Berlin, then the supercomputer would be too worthless. So, maybe these people would go to the Ministry of Defense or even Moscow to watch this simulation process. At the same time, the true level of supercomputers in the Eastern World was exposed.
That thing is actually serving the national strategy!
Of course, Thun would not say that he went to that kind of place, but said that he would go to the computer center of the University of Berlin, and the feng shui was changing. Now that the electronic technology in East Germany is so developed, the University of Berlin probably has computers with enough performance long ago, so it would be nice to go and take a look first.
Unexpectedly, after hearing his words, Flix said, "No, just use the computer in our current conference room."
In the conference room, the one that just played the projector? It was just an ordinary desktop computer! If that computer could be simulated, that is to say, the conclusion made by the University of Berlin held a discussion meeting this time was definitely a fool! The program must be quite simple! A ordinary desktop computer can run, who should I coax?
Although the laymen present were shocked by the content just played, many of them were experts. When they heard Flix say that they were using the current computer, they were of course quite speechless.
This time I came here, just treat it as a tolerant trip and go out for shopping later! Before leaving, I promised my daughter to buy a walkman.
"Mr. Flix, are you talking about using this computer to simulate the situation of this nuclear explosion?" Thun asked, his tone of voice a bit strange, especially when talking about this computer.
"Of course not, this computer is just a part of all connected computers," Flix said. "You can understand this computer as a terminal, or a task-issuing machine."
Flix's words made the experts stunned. What does this mean? Why can't you understand? What does it mean to be part of all connected computers? Be responsible for task distribution?
After all, in this era and in the Western world, the Internet is also something that is not popular.
Historically, the Internet originated from the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the US Department of Defense (ARPA) to build a military network called "ARPAnet". This network was officially launched in 1969 and was completely used in military use. After that, by the 1970s, ARPAnet had dozens of computer networks, but each network could only communicate between computers within the network, and different computer networks were still unable to communicate. Later, in 1974, a protocol for connecting packet networks appeared, including TCP/IP, a famous protocol in later generations. However, in history, it was not until 1982 that ARPA accepted the TCP/IP protocol and converted all military computer networks to TCP/IP. In 1983, ARPAnet was divided into two parts: part for military use, called MILNET; the other part was still called ARPAnet, for civil use. This civilian network was the predecessor of the Internet.
In other words, the Internet has not appeared in the United States yet.
However, the Internet has been fully popularized in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe!
Flix could only continue to explain: "Our computer uses the KP1831BM286 chip, which is already the best chip in the civilian field. However, the computing power of this computer is far from enough to meet our simulation needs. However, if there are hundreds or thousands of computers, the computing power can be improved by leaps and bounds. Therefore, we have developed a set of programs that can be used for distributed computing."
The KP1831BM286 chip is actually a clone of American 80286 chip. This chip has a computing power of 6MHZ, which is indeed not high. However, if hundreds of such computers work together, it would be absolutely awesome!
You should know that the supercomputers in later generations were actually combined in this way, which were ordinary civilian CPUs, hundreds, or even thousands, together to form the core of computing, greatly improving their capabilities.
At the same time, in later generations, because supercomputers are still very expensive, distributed computing methods were developed in civil computing. The core of them was to have a computer that allocates tasks. This computer distributes the data it needs to calculate to many computers, allowing them to calculate their own parts and then combine them.
This method is also quite creative, and the concept of distributed computing is also quite popular. Of course, all of this requires the cooperation of computer networks!
And now, the computer network in the entire East Germany is quite popular!
And these Western scientists have all become local bumblebees at this time. They listened to the technical terms Flix said, and at the same time sighed that the Western world is lagging behind again in this regard!
"Our program was developed based on C language. Now, we can set the initial variables." At this time, the desktop computer in front of Flix had started to the main interface of the program. Then, in the eyes of everyone, Flix's finger flexibly typing the keyboard and entering lines of commands.
South America, fifty nuclear bombs, 500,000 tons of equivalents.
When we finally hit the Enter key, Flix easily withdrew his hands and said to the onlookers: "Now, our program may need to be run for a while. Now, we have an intermission, how about the activity for a while?"
"No, Mr. Flix, can you tell us about your network during this period?" At this time, scientists with wide eyes were looking at Flix.
Chapter completed!