"Stabilizer one, ready. The power supply is stable, everything is normal! " An engineer pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, looked at the instrument in front of him and reported what he saw in a loud voice.
"Stabilizer two, all right! The voltage is very stable, there is no change... "Another staff member is also reporting his own situation. After all, there are too many things involved in this experiment. Even the steady one can't help wiping the sweat on his forehead.
Several generals of the military and a deputy prime minister of the government in charge of the program stood in the seats watching the experiment with nervous faces. If the experiment is successful, Germany will once again be in the forefront of the world and become the first country to master this kind of adverse technology.
They are not nervous because this technology can lead the era into the next era. The countries that have priority in mastering this technology will be able to become the great countries in the world by virtue of their experience and innovation in this field. However, to their displeasure, not all of them are German in this project. There are even many scientists from France, Italy and Poland.
"The device is working properly, I'll input instructions, and then this machine is about to do something unprecedented." The head of a British scientist is not very tall, but in this laboratory, his status is almost no different from that of akado. The code name given to him by the third empire was "God", and he was actually doing this work.
This huge machine, which accounts for almost 60% of the whole laboratory, began to ring slightly, and the wheel on the machine began to rotate rapidly, but the speed of operation was not fast. But as the machine began to work, everyone watching from the side of the lab felt their heart beat to their throat.
"Squeak squeak." Corresponding to the boring and low sound of the machine is the sharp sound at the same time. On the operation interface of the machine facing everyone, a narrow exit position, a thin white paper began to gush out, accompanied by the long white paper constantly being spit out from the machine, the sharp voice has never stopped.
"Is it really as powerful as the head of state said?" A military general turned his head and asked a general who was working in this field. The general had the rank of major general on his shoulder, but he was only thirty or forty years old.
Hearing the general's question, the major general answered directly, "you know, the help that this machine can provide is not comparable with military strength or other things. It can be said that as long as this thing can work normally, everything in our hands will enter a new century. "
"This is an electron tube computer. It can replace human beings in a large number of calculations. The unit of calculation speed is seconds." This major general of the German defense forces has been in charge of this project, and in the process of contacting this project, he gradually understood what kind of significance this great invention and creation had for the whole war.
"Calculation? What does computing have to do with war? " The German general frowned, and then added, "maybe the logistics department will use some statistical calculation, but the power consumption and our funds... I would rather have 20 accountants than such a heavy thing to replace them."
"Sir, 20 accountants can't do 6700 calculations per second." Just now, the British expert who was still fiddling with the machine and now came with more than a dozen German scientists heard the German general's words and said with a smile, "and you can't guarantee that the 6700 calculations are absolutely correct, but my machine can do it!"
If we rely on manpower to calculate, then in the process of complex calculation, there will be more or less some errors. These errors will accumulate in the end and destroy the result of a large-scale calculation. Thousands of calculations are time-consuming and labor-consuming, but the results are not necessarily accurate, which restricts the development and progress of human civilization.
But this computer is different, it can use the prescribed rules to calculate, and the value is absolutely correct, although there are many "problems" that it can not calculate or will disturb the program, but under the prescribed program, it is absolutely not wrong, which is enough to make people pay attention to the future of this thing.
"6700 operations per second?" It seems that the German general can't believe his ears. Although he doesn't know how complicated the operation is, he understands what kind of concept the number 6700 is.
This means that if he gets three soldiers from the main infantry regiment and makes them lie down in one second at the same time - it's magnificent enough to think about the scene, so the Admiral looks at the huge looking machine with more exclamations.
"Mr. Turing, can this machine really carry out such complicated calculations smoothly?" The major general, who had just boasted, obviously didn't have much confidence in the face of real professionals. So while the Admiral beside him sighed, he asked the British scientist Mr. Turing in a low voice.
"If I were alone, it would be absolutely impossible to complete this masterpiece. However, your scientists have done research in this area, and many places have given me great inspiration. For example, the use of electronic tubes has solved many problems. " Turing talked a lot about his major.
When he was first brought to Germany by German special forces from Britain, he did not believe that there was a group of people in the world who knew more about artificial intelligence and computer science than he did. But when he saw the laboratory that akado had prepared for him and the famous scientists in Germany, he was completely convinced by the German foresight. In terms of computer research, Germany is no worse than Britain, and even far ahead of Britain in terms of actual operation and finished product construction. So Turing immediately integrated into this grand plan, and finally made the German computer really work. After more than a year's day and night work, German scientists and British and French scientists like Turing have finally come up with a feasible plan to turn the head of state's plan, which is close to God making, into a reality“ The computer is working well, it is working smoothly! My God! It is calculated according to the program I designed! It's alive! It has life As a German scientist shouts excitedly, he bends down and kisses the control board in front of him with his lips. There are so many people in this lab who are just as excited as him. How great a proposition is it to give life to a machine? Of course, people living in today's world all know that until 2016, human beings did not give a machine life in a real sense, and the alpha dog, who can think and summarize, still stayed in the stage of playing go... And in 1939, these scientists with this goal, were so excited to tears because of their small success. In Turing's eyes, in the eyes of this group of crazy German scientists, maybe ten years, maybe twenty years, human beings will surpass the past thousands of years of evolution and complete a startling leap of their own. They don't think they are too far ahead, because they have just completed the first supercomputing in human history“ What is it doing? " Just now, the shocked general frowned and suddenly asked Turing around him, "you all say it's calculating. Now, what a complicated problem is it used to test its calculation?" Hearing the general next to him ask, the major general in charge of the project finally has a chance to show himself. He grabbed the topic with a smile and said to the general: "before, the intelligence department cracked their code according to the intercepted code telegram between Britain and the United States. You know, in the Mathematics Department of a university, 560 math experts are working hard for this project... It took them two months to work out the results. This computer is checking the results. "“ My God! Can it decipher the enemy's code? " The Admiral once again looked at the huge machine which was still working steadily. The room was still full of buzzing sound, but the sound was no less deafening than thunder in his ears“ In theory, it can only operate, but it can help people to operate and shorten the time needed to decipher the password. " Turing told the German general with pride: "it can also calculate trajectories... Or anything we need it to calculate. Of course, we will continue to improve this thing, let it run 10000 times per second, 100000 times per second, up to 1 million times or even 10 million times. " If akado stood here, he would laugh, because in his old days, a laptop could do the data touted by Turing. But now everyone here is shocked by these figures, one million times a second? How detached is that concept“ The result came out! " Over there, an assistant with a long piece of paper in his hand reported in a loud voice: "the computer shows that our original calculation results are illogical in three places, and the rest are consistent with the calculation results."“ Good! If there is no accident, gentlemen The major general in charge of the project announced in a trembling voice: "we have cracked the code that the British army is using!"