MMB Chapter 48: This is the answer. Copy the homework.
Chapter 48: This is the answer. Copy the homework.
Their focus remains on that insurmountable power consumption barrier.
The 72 hours passed by in tedious waiting.
The first day was calm and peaceful.
The next day, everything remained calm.
By the afternoon of the third day, there were less than three hours left until the deadline of the 72-hour bet.
Li Jianbin was already confident of victory. He even had his secretary prepare a press release with the headline, "Respect Science, Be Wary of the Harm of Academic Exaggeration to National Scientific Research Projects."
Inside the control center, the atmosphere was as relaxed as if a tea party were being held.
Just then.
The technician named Xiao Wang exclaimed again, his voice trembling with disbelief.
"Zhang Gong! Look!"
Everyone's attention was drawn to it.
On Xiao Wang's secondary screen, the fragmented, disordered digital noise that had persisted for two whole days seemed to receive some mysterious command at this moment.
They stopped the pointless refreshing.
Tens of thousands of tiny data packets from different IP addresses converged on the same virtual coordinate in the same millisecond, like rivers flowing into the sea!
They are no longer noise.
They began to rapidly recombine, splice, and fold according to a mysterious and complex pattern...
Finally, to the astonishment of all the engineers, the junk data coalesced in the center of the screen into a dazzling, perfect image, shimmering with a ghostly blue light…
Three-dimensional model.
It was a prototype of a chip architecture with a complex internal structure that they had never seen before!
"What...what is this?!"
Zhang's voice was trembling.
At that moment, the alarm in the main control center was also sounded.
But the alarm was not triggered by an enemy attack, nor by a malfunction.
Instead, the system responsible for monitoring the network load of universities across Beijing detected an anomaly: in the past 48 hours, servers of almost all universities in Beijing had their idle computing power quietly used by an unknown background program as a ghost process, consuming about 0.1% of its capacity.
These stolen, fragmented, and imperceptible bits of computing power, when put together, form a terrifying computing cluster comparable to a miniature supercomputer!
This cluster has just completed its last computation.
"Reporting to Elder Chen!"
A reporter rushed into Chen Jiefang's office, his voice trembling with excitement, "Professor Li and his team's power consumption barrier... has been... breached theoretically by an external model of unknown origin!"
at the same time.
The door to the archives room opened.
Lin Yu walked out yawning, looking languid as if he hadn't woken up yet.
He held an A4 sheet of paper with only one line of extremely concise formula written on it.
He walked to the door of the main control center, ignoring the ghostly expressions of Li Jianbin and the group of people behind him, and casually stuck the paper on the door of the main control center like a missing person notice.
"Time is up."
Lin Yu put one hand in his pocket and spoke calmly.
"Here's the answer. Copy the homework."
The area in front of the main control center was deathly silent.
All eyes were focused on that light, flimsy A4 sheet of paper.
On the paper, there was only one line of formula written in black pen, simple and elegant, yet it exuded a chilling sense of unfamiliarity.
【ΔS = k ln Ω (T_h / T_c - 1)_rev】
"What is this?"
A young researcher asked instinctively.
"Nonsense! Absolutely nonsense!"
Li Jianbin was the first to react. He rushed forward, pointed at the formula, and trembled with anger.
"The entropy increase equation? You're trying to fool us with a basic thermodynamic formula? Lin Yu, do you think we're all idiots?! What does this have to do with chip power consumption?!"
His team members behind him also shook their heads, their eyes filled with disappointment and disdain.
"I thought he would come up with something amazing, but it turns out he was just a college student showing off that he had memorized formulas."
"We wasted three days of his time. Old Chen really misjudged us this time."
Faced with overwhelming doubts, Lin Yu didn't even lift an eyelid.
He simply leaned against the wall by the door, watching Xia Zijing walk out of the archives, carrying two laptops that were scorching hot from overloaded computing.
"The second law of thermodynamics holds true absolutely only in isolated systems."
Xia Zijing's voice rang out in a cool tone. She walked to the A4 paper and pointed to a subscript after the formula.
"What Lin Yu wrote was about entropy change under reversible cycles. His idea was to build a miniature, reversible Carnot engine model inside the chip."
Carnot engine?
All the experts present were stunned. It was a theoretical heat engine model that existed in an ideal world, the most efficient model, which was simply impossible to realize in reality.
"His architecture is not designed to reduce power consumption."
Xia Zijin continued to explain, "It's not like an emotionless AI reading out a technical document. Instead, we're utilizing power consumption. The waste heat (T_h, high-temperature heat source) generated by the high-computing-power unit is guided to the low-computing-power unit (T_c, low-temperature heat source) through a new type of phase change material, driving it to perform basic calculations, thereby realizing energy circulation within the system."
She paused for a moment, then gave a concluding statement.
"The power consumption wall you see isn't a wall. In Lin Yu's model, it's an energy dam. You're thinking about how to dismantle it, but he's thinking about how to use it to generate electricity."
"boom!"
Every word Xia Zijing said was like a heavy hammer, striking Li Jianbin and his team members hard in the heart!
Utilizing waste heat? Internal energy cycle?
This idea completely transcends their entire knowledge system! It's not just an improvement in engineering; it's a subversion of the very foundations of physics!
"Armchair strategist!"
Li Jianbin's face was deathly pale, but he still made a last-ditch effort: "Anyone can talk about theory! But what about simulation? Without simulation data, it's all just empty talk!"
"Isn't the data on your servers?"
Lin Yu finally spoke, pointing to the main control center, "I borrowed the idle computing power of hundreds of thousands of computers from hundreds of universities in Beijing over the past 48 hours to run a simulation. The results should have already been transmitted to your intranet."
Li Jianbin's pupils suddenly contracted!
He suddenly remembered the digital noise that had lasted for two days!
It wasn't noise after all! It was a massive distributed computing operation taking place right under his nose!
He staggered back to the control panel, his hands trembling as he typed on the keyboard.
Instantly, a three-dimensional model popped out.
It was the prototype of the chip architecture that had just been formed on the network port.
Next to the model is a simulation data report that is so detailed it's almost unbelievable.