Chapter 320 It is gold that shines everywhere, turning the tide
Ma Xiacheng's first-level alert can only influence people, not the "network".
People can't really prevent problems from happening, they can only remedy them in time after they happen.
After the first-level alert order was issued, on the other side, the load of the "net" was still climbing uncontrollably, slowly pushing from 95% to 96%, then 99%, then 99.99%...
In the evening, after a long period of ultra-high-intensity calculations, the "net" finally collapsed.
The center of the red block indicating high load first changes from red to black.
Subsequently, the black patches spread outward like a spider web, and did not stop until they occupied more than 20% of the area.
Immediately afterwards, a large number of red modules began to turn from red to yellow or green.
Modules that were previously displayed in green gradually turn yellow.
Obviously, "Net" couldn't bear it any longer, so it relaxed its analysis and observation of the heavy task a little.
At the moment when the "net" mutated, Ren Zhong clearly felt that the hairs on his body first stood up like an electric shock, and then quickly fell down.
Ren Zhong saw the changes in the computing power distribution of "Net" on his operating terminal.
Almost at the same time, he received an order from Ma Xiacheng.
"Attention all teams. The calculation requirements have been issued and frontline staff are quickly in place. You must come up with the results of the shielding plan within five minutes. This is difficult, but you must do it. The first team to complete the task perfectly will receive
A special award for all employees.”
There were too many bad blocks at the same time, reaching nearly 1.5 million, which was completely different from the dozens or hundreds of bad blocks that the computing team usually faced.
The last time we encountered this situation was about one hundred and fifty years ago.
The "net" itself did not suffer any serious damage, it was human beings who were injured.
At that time, Shenxun Group failed to complete the replacement of bad blocks in time, and the price was to trigger the biological processing mechanism of the "Net". In the next fifty years, humans lost 20% of the computing power of the "Net" until "
Net” after completing the entire biochemical treatment.
The Shenxun Group of that generation united with eight other leading companies and paid a huge price to slowly and completely restore it.
During those fifty years, the biggest pain for the Origin Star humans, who were accustomed to the help of the "Net" in everything, was that a large number of scientific research and calculation requests were rejected by the "Net".
The progress of human autonomous science and technology in Yuanxing hit an invisible wall, stopped, and entered a long era of technological depression.
The humans of the Source Star had to stop a lot of independently developed technologies and switch their scientific route to a vassal route that digests and absorbs the empire's commodities and shared technologies.
Later, even after the restoration, the development and utilization of the "Net" by the humans of Source Star remained at a low load level for a long time.
Even if there is a large amount of computing demand, the top scientific researchers among the citizens of Yuanxing prefer to use self-developed chip arrays whose performance is far less than one billionth of that of the "Net" to barely cope with it.
The impact of that incident was long-term and far-reaching, and until now, humans on Source Star have not been able to find a scientific research route that truly belongs to them.
What is even more tragic is that even after 150 years of investigation, Shenzhen Xun Group still failed to find out the cause of the accident.
The situation this time is very similar to that one. As the heir to the Shenzhen News Group, Ma Xiacheng has access to a large amount of information. There is also a full-time monitoring department to help him, but he still doesn't know why the "net" suddenly operates at an extremely high load.
, can only respond passively.
If the final processing fails and Source Star humanity pays this price again, Ma Xiacheng will lose his qualifications as heir.
Ma Xiacheng had done a good enough job. He had already encountered the risk in the afternoon and had all frontline operators mobilized and on standby at any time.
The efficiency of information retrieval is also very high. It only takes less than five seconds to confirm the location of all bad blocks, but there are just too many.
The rest is the work of the algorithm project team.
Ren Zhong and others started work immediately.
Ma Xiacheng, who was sweating profusely, said in the command chain: "Although the number of bad blocks this time is huge, the calculation rules are no different from usual. It is only a quantitative change, not a qualitative change. I have reserved five minutes for you.
We are already well off, so come on, everyone."
By the end of Ma Xiacheng's words, he actually felt a little weak.
Everyone knows that quantitative change is not qualitative change, but actually implementing it is another matter.
Ma Xiacheng knew that the hope of success was actually very slim.
The time it took for the "net" to manifest a potential crisis and then erupt was too short.
Even though he had doubled the size of the algorithm project team in a short period of time, the preparations were still not sufficient.
According to conventional understanding, a total of at least 300 groups and 15 S-level groups must be reached before the success rate can be raised to over 99% by relying on redundant calculations.
As it stands now, the success rate is actually only 30%.
What can be done and what should be done has been done, and all that is left is to do your best and obey fate.
Ma Xiacheng stood up from his seat and paced back and forth in the office, his eyes always focused on the calculation progress of each group displayed on the projection.
The calculation progress is displayed in a vertical strip. The evaluation basis comprehensively considers the execution status of each group leader and team members, and simultaneously gives a weighted value.
After just five seconds, the progress bars of a total of 156 computing groups showed differences.
In addition to the 77 groups, the other 70 or so newly formed groups are obviously much worse than other groups, and the progress bars of some groups are shown in red.
This is because based on the synchronized monitoring of the system, the leaders of these groups took the wrong path from the beginning when formulating the calculation plans, and the final results were completely unreliable.
As for the progress bars of the six S-level groups, they are obviously higher than those of other groups. There is a slight gap between them, but the difference is not big, and they are all completely separated from other groups.
This is normal, but not normal.
The abnormality is that only five of the six S-level teams are mature teams that have been tested for a long time, and the other one is the 77th team with heavy responsibilities that Ma Xiacheng only promoted at noon.
In the two simulation calculations in the afternoon, Group 77 achieved results of 161 and 158 seconds respectively, which is gradually approaching the minimum standard of 150 seconds for the S-level group.
There has been improvement, but the rate of improvement is constantly slowing down.
Ma Xiacheng originally thought that Team 77 would hit a wall of ability and gradually get stuck at the 155-second level. He would have to wait until Ren Zhong became more accustomed to the work of the computing team, or he would be assigned five subordinates with higher levels before he could gradually break through.
155 seconds.
But I never expected that when faced with more complex computing scenarios, Ren Zhong, a novice, not only did not lose the gap, but actually went one step further and completely caught up with the other five S-level teams.
It's a pity that Ma Xiacheng never had the opportunity to know what exam-oriented education is like in the 21st century.
In the era of heavy responsibility, such legends circulated.
The strength of academics in exam-oriented education often lies in hard work.
Through ultra-high concentration and extremely tough self-training, a strong enough logical memory is formed. Like muscle memory, academic masters can rely on it when facing common question types and common variations of common question types.
The existing knowledge reserves in the brain can quickly find ideas for solving problems and provide quick and accurate answers.
But above the academic masters, there are also academic gods, especially those who have just skipped a grade.
Scholars often master basic knowledge much faster than ordinary people, so that they rarely spend time on repetitive types of logical memory strengthening training and are always acquiring new knowledge.
When faced with test questions on certain fixed knowledge points, because there is no fixed memory, the performance of the academic master may not even be as good as that of the academic master, but through self-derivation, he can still answer the questions accurately, but at a slightly slower speed.
But once competition-level questions that completely exceed the syllabus appear, the difference between the academic god and the academic master will appear.
Academic masters who rely on logical memory for a long time will get into trouble, but academic masters are still the same as in the past, still using derivation to clear away the fog and find a way to break the situation, but the derivation process is more complicated and takes longer.
But as long as there are no problems with the question itself, Xueshen will definitely be able to solve it in the end and achieve a good accuracy rate.
In a sense, the other five S-level teams in the algorithm project team are the academic masters here, and Ren Zhong is the academic master who just jumped two levels in a row.
More complex computing mechanisms not only failed to stump him, but instead became a stage for him to perform more comfortably.
Thirty-six seconds passed and a "miracle" happened.
The progress bar of Group 77 suddenly jumped up a lot, leaving the other five S-class groups behind, and became the best in the world.
Ren Zhong completed the compilation and splitting of the calculation plan.
Ma Xiacheng was shocked.
He simply directly enlarged the monitoring level of Group 77 and heard Ren Zhong's orders to others.
"This is our first actual battle. The difficulty is slightly increased, but it should be within your capabilities. In addition, I will not report the progress time to you. You just have to do your own thing."
From one bad block to nearly 1.5 million bad blocks, Ren Zhong said that it was just "a slight increase in difficulty."
Ma Xiacheng raised his eyebrows.
He immediately guessed that Ren Zhong had not informed his team members of the truth and deliberately made the complex situation simple to reduce the psychological pressure of the team members.
146 seconds later, the five members of Group 77 completed the basic calculations sweating profusely and submitted the results to Ren Zhong.
12 seconds later, Ren Zhong directly submitted the blocking plan.
Ma Xiacheng was stunned on the spot.
Ren Zhong did not conduct a complete retest of the results, only half of it.
If the situation hadn't been urgent, Ma Xiacheng would have called Ren Zhong to the office to give him a scolding.
After thinking for a moment, Ma Xiacheng gritted his teeth and took another test on his side.
After 35 seconds, the retest was successful and the execution success rate of the simulation calculation was higher than 99.9999%, indicating that the plan was feasible.
Without enough time to blame himself for wasting 35 seconds, Ma Xiacheng immediately clicked send.
0.01 seconds later, a huge ghost particle communicator information stream was sent into space from the giant antenna at the top of Kamiguanjing City.
0.5 seconds later, in the depths of a not-so-distant "planet", one "ant" after another started to act in sync.
Two more minutes passed. As the first bad block was replaced, the first black bad block in the projection model turned green.
Immediately afterwards, the green light spread like the black block before.
Five and a half minutes later, as the last black block turned green, Ma Xiacheng received a message that "this repair was a complete success".
He lay back suddenly and realized that his back was soaked with cold sweat.
As one of the most powerful people on the Origin Star and the determined next generation leader of the Shenxun Group, Ma Xiacheng has certainly seen the world and has a very strong psychological quality.
But the roller coaster ride was still too much for him.
It took about five minutes to calm down before Ma Xiacheng made an announcement within the company.
"This dangerous situation has been successfully handled. The 77th group of the algorithm project team has played a huge role, with a contribution of 70%. Congratulations to Ren Zhong and congratulations to the 77th group."
A little talk means a big deal.
In an instant, the entire Shenxun Group was shocked. Even many high-ranking people in the Yuanxing Business Association who had been paying attention to the matter were amazed.
Although the proportion of 70% does not seem high, it is very common.
But in fact, this is the highest evaluation within the algorithm project team.
The other 30% belongs to other coordinating departments.
In the past, when the algorithm project team took too long to complete and relied on other engineering departments and execution departments to rush for work, the algorithm team's contribution could not even reach 30%.
Here, Ren Zhong received an inquiry from Ma Xiacheng, "Ren Zhong, do you need another rest?"
"No, I'm not tired."
"Okay, come to my office in ten minutes. I have to give a reply to my father and the association. I'm sorry to bother you if I can't get up."
Ren Zhong: "It's okay, Minister Ma is too polite."
Ten minutes passed, and Ren Zhong arrived outside the minister's office on time.
Ma Xiacheng has completed the briefing on the situation.
On the way Ren Zhong walked out of his home office and headed to the minister's office, almost everyone who passed by him looked up at him with admiration, then greeted him respectfully and said some compliments.
Ren Zhong still has the same attitude that seems easy-going, but in fact keeps a distance from everyone.
The door suddenly opened from the inside, and Ma Xiacheng walked out quickly with a smile on his face, "Ren Zhong, you are here, come in and sit down, what kind of tea do you want to drink?"
Ren Zhong: "Piaoxue, thank you."
As the door closed again, the other employees who were watching shivered violently.
Many people have worked here for more than ten years, but this is the first time that Minister Ma Xiacheng has personally opened the door to greet people and made tea for them.
In the office, Ma Xiacheng placed the steaming tea cup in front of Ren Zhong and then said, "It's really thanks to you this time."
Ren Zhong: "It's your job, no need to thank me."
"According to your existing citizen credit points, after my point application is approved, you can be directly promoted to a seventh-level citizen, and you can set foot in Yuanjing City."
Ren Zhong raised his eyebrows, "Do you have so many points?"
Ma Xiacheng nodded, "Of course, 'Internet' is particularly important to us. This point is not awarded by one company of Shenzhen Xun Group, but is shared equally by nine major companies."
Ren Zhong: "That's it, thank you very much."
"Thank you for everything. You deserve it." Ma Xiacheng smiled and asked intentionally or unintentionally: "I want to know why you submitted the results without doing the calculation?"
Ren Zhong asked: "I can be 100% sure that it is correct, so why waste time checking it. The situation is urgent. Didn't Minister Ma say this yourself?"
Ma Xiacheng was stunned for a moment, and replied with a slight embarrassment: "That's true, but I'll admit it to you honestly. I did a calculation myself and wasted 35 seconds, otherwise your completion would be better. I'm sorry."
Ren Zhong waved his hand, "It's okay, Minister Ma, you don't have to apologize. After all, our purpose is the same, to serve the 'Net'. As long as the final result is perfect, the process will naturally be perfect as well."
"Yes." Ma Xiacheng thought for a while, gritted his teeth, "From now on, you will take over one of my positions and become the leader of the algorithm project team. I will give you all the authority of this position."
Ren Zhong raised his eyebrows and stood up suddenly, "I will definitely live up to my mission!"