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Chapter 114 Heat Dissipation

Compared to the rest of the celestial bodies in the universe, the mass of the Aeol is too small. The gravitational field given by its so small mass only takes about 10 meters per second to break free. Moreover, it is many times easier to accelerate an object to ten meters per second on it than on Earth.

This means that even a slight explosion can cause a lot of material to escape into space, not to mention that this total equivalent is a violent explosion of billions of tons of TNT.

The "Lavender" spacecraft in the distance was silently observing it. After a moment, people determined that in the previous explosion, about 316.7 billion tons of mass were ejected into the universe, accounting for about 4.4% of its total mass before the explosion - this figure slightly exceeded some previous estimates, but it was still within an acceptable range.

A blast that was so violent and involved such a wide range of explosions could not be controlled too accurately.

At this moment, the originally long-shaped star Ai has become a little rounder, and due to the impact of the explosion, the landform on it has undergone earth-shaking changes. There are also many gases, dry ice, and the like that originally hidden inside, but with outward channels, they begin to erupt into space, like volcanoes.

This also means that it loses its mass, but its proportion is very small and can be ignored.

At the same time, it was also because of this violent explosion that its forward orbit was greatly affected, resulting in some expected changes - it will no longer pass tens of millions of kilometers away from the earth, but will shorten the distance to less than five million kilometers. Its speed close to the earth has also increased greatly. If it is at its current level, it will reach the closest point of the earth in about four months.

Of course, this is without subsequent influence.

If such a violent explosion occurred on Earth, the geological activity it caused might take a long time to calm down. But it is different. In just a few hours, it has returned to calm.

When the stones that were blown away were all away from it, and the space environment had returned to the level where it could be constructed.

The subsequent industrial spacecraft arrived at Ai Shen Star three days later. Thousands of people who had received rigorous training, both astronauts and installation workers, landed on it with various equipment and tools, and started the installation of planetary engines above the newly formed geological stability point after the explosion.

They are just the first batch of workers to arrive. In the future, there will be five times the number of astronauts to come and participate in this largest alien project in human history.

At this moment, the Earth, the edge of Antarctica, the Ross Sea.

A giant cargo ship easily knocked away the ice floating above the sea and moved slowly in an unstoppable state. In front of it, the workers in Antarctica's Ross Port were ready to unload the goods.

After arriving at the port, the millions of high-performance CPUs and GPUs on it, as well as the supporting cables, motherboards, memory and other equipment will be transported to Yinglong Base about dozens of kilometers away through temporary railways.

There is the place where the Yinglong is the supercomputer with the strongest computing power in the human world. The chips transported by this freighter will be used to upgrade and transform this supercomputer, increasing its computing power by more than ten times.

Experts in the computer science community have not yet proposed the idea of ​​distributed computing, that is, through the existing multiple supercomputers located in different places jointly perform subsequent computing tasks and complete the simulation calculation of the dark matter motion model, but after evaluation, they were eventually abandoned.

The reason is very simple. The calculation of dark matter motion models requires extremely high real-time performance. If distributed computing is adopted, the communication delay will be unacceptable - even if the two supercomputers are only 100 kilometers apart, even if the transmission speed of the electrical signal is the speed of light, it will take about 0.7 milliseconds to complete a communication between the two. Considering the problems of data transit, this time will be longer. In one second, the number of communications required by the two is more than billions of times.

This will cause a serious drag on the calculation efficiency and will cause the calculation results to basically lose real-time. If the real-time nature is lost, even if the result is calculated, it will have no meaning.

Therefore, it is inevitable to upgrade and renovate the Yinglong supercomputer and use this computer to undertake the calculation tasks.

However, the upgraded Yinglong supercomputer will also face a serious problem.

Heat dissipation.

At the beginning, the Yinglong supercomputer was built in Antarctica to take advantage of the extremely cold climate of Antarctica to achieve the purpose of cooling in the computer room. But now, after the upgrade and renovation of the Yinglong supercomputer, the computing power will be increased by more than ten times, and the heat that needs to be dissipated will be increased by more than a hundred times.

This is mainly because humans' existing manufacturing processes are not up to standard.

In fact, the current technical level of human beings was originally unable to affordable to create "a single supercomputer with a computing power of ten times the current Yinglong supercomputer or above". The current upgrade and transformation rely on "powerful miracles", and indicators such as economy are not within the scope of consideration.

However, the economy can be ignored, but the heat dissipation performance must be taken into account. Because once the low temperature cannot be maintained, the chip computing power will be seriously affected.

This problem is almost impossible to solve because of insufficient power supply.

Even if the power supply department allocates more than 100,000 people to improve the level of power supply, the power supply that can be improved in a short period of time will only be enough to maintain the operation of Yinglong supercomputer after upgrading and transformation, as well as part of the heat dissipation electricity. If there are more, it will be impossible.

It is also not feasible to transfer Yinglong supercomputers to places with abundant power supply. Because there are no cold climates like Antarctica in places with abundant power supply, the power used for heat dissipation will be more than ten times more than in Antarctica, and the failure rate will be greatly increased.

You should know that the Yinglong supercomputer after the upgraded and transformation does not count the electricity required for heat dissipation, but the electricity consumption is equivalent to a medium-sized city. Including the electricity required for heat dissipation, it will be more than ten times more than that. The highest performance power supply equipment that humans can build at this moment cannot support such a huge amount of electricity consumption.

This part of the heat dissipation gap must be resolved in Antarctica.

Faced with this seemingly unsolvable contradiction, the power experts gave up, the computer experts gave up, the fusion power station engineers gave up, and almost everyone gave up.

The person who finally came forward to solve the problem has an identity that no one could imagine.

He is a meteorological expert.

"I have studied the meteorological and climate data of Antarctica over the past hundred years and have an idea. Perhaps, we can blow out a gap of ten kilometers in this mountain range. In this way, the cold air mass that was originally blocked by the mountains can flow downstream and blow directly to Yinglong Base. The model simulation shows that in this way, the average temperature of the Yinglong Base will be reduced by about 7℃, the average wind force will be increased by 2 to 2.5 levels, the efficiency of the air-cooled heat dissipation device will be greatly improved, and the sea water temperature in the Ross Sea will also be reduced accordingly, which will indirectly improve the heat dissipation efficiency. In this way, this part of the heat dissipation gap may be solved..."

The proposal of this meteorological expert quickly attracted the attention of the project team experts. In the end, it was approved by a joint evaluation by meteorological experts, computer experts, engineers and others.

People believe that this can indeed meet the cooling needs of the upgraded Yinglong supercomputer.

The most important thing is that the implementation of this idea does not take too long. At this moment, what the human world lacks the most is time.

As for the impact this plan will have on Antarctica's climate and ecology, it was forgotten by everyone in a tacit understanding. However, some radical environmentalists and organizations stood up to protest for a while, but soon disappeared under the criticism of the entire society.

There are rumors that the residence of some environmental protection organizations has been impacted, and they have been beaten by some unidentified persons. Some leaders have encountered life crises such as divorce from their wives or husbands, severing relationships between parents, siblings, relatives and friends, etc. There are many, but no one is interested in exploring the authenticity.

Finally, a large number of all-nitrogen anionic salt explosives arrived in Antarctica and were sent into the mountain by drilling equipment. After the explosion, the gap was opened and carried a very low temperature cold air mass, completely submerging the Yinglong base.

On the other hand, a large part of the detailed mass distribution map in the solar system drawn by major interstellar exploration equipment that had started working a long time ago has completed a large part of it. In the future, in addition to the fact that some of the manpower and material resources are left to continue to improve accuracy, the remaining astronomers will focus their attention outside the solar system.

Distant overseas celestial bodies, two or three stars in the South Gate four light years away, tens of thousands of light years away, Andromeda galaxy far away, and even giant sources hundreds of millions of light years away, will be included in people's sight.

In fact, if you complete the mapping of the earth's own mass distribution and mass changes - perhaps it should be called geography, geology, meteorology, etc., the accuracy of the dark matter motion model can be increased to 90%. In addition, the sun can achieve 95%. By completing the data collection of celestial bodies within Neptune, the accuracy can be increased to 99%. Considering some overseas celestial bodies, the Orte Cloud, and the South Gate two and three stars, the accuracy can be increased to at least 99.9%. If the range is expanded, even considering that distant celestial bodies are more than one billion light years away, they can only increase the accuracy of the data after two or three digits, or even more than ten or hundreds of digits.

The accuracy can only be improved by this little, but the manpower and material resources required are extremely huge. This seems not cost-effective, but everyone thinks it is necessary.
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