Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 450 Supercomputing Center
In the third issue of "The Great Master of Dance", under the spotlight of everyone, Li Qing's dance is still a Chinese-style dance, and it is also divided into three paragraphs.

These three passages and the corresponding soundtracks are all Chinese style songs released by Jay Chou, namely "Compendium of Materia Medica" and "Huo Yuanjia" released in 06, and "Dragon Fist" released in 02.

Chinese style songs + Chinese style dance can be described as a strong Chinese style, which directly pushes the concept of "national style" to the extreme, and further establishes the elemental style of "national style dance".

What is national dance?

After the second episode of the program was broadcast, everyone still didn't have a clear concept. They generally believed that the dance with ancient charm and modern action elements is the national style dance.

But this national style dance once again broke people's original cognition.

The choreography style under the soundtrack of "Compendium of Materia Medica", in addition to its own ancient charm, has the rhythm of jazz dance, and is more inclined to jazz dance.

Li Qing's explanation in the behind-the-scenes video is that this is a kind of national style jazz dance.

The choreography style of "Fearless" is based on the former, and modern dance is added, so it can be regarded as a national style modern dance.

The last piece of "Dragon Fist" choreography is in line with the style of hip-hop pop dance, or a street dance style, so it is called national street dance.

But whether it is pop dance, street dance, modern dance or jazz dance, these dances have a prefix of "national style" in front of them, which means that the details, rhythm, clothing, props, soundtrack, etc. of this kind of dance have elements of national style, Formed a unified style of national style.

Obviously, this is completely different from everyone's impression.

It turns out that Chinese-style dance does not mean that it must be fairy-like, elegant, and ancient-style. It can also be very jazzy, very rustic, or very street.

And the dance does not necessarily have to be performed by female dancers with soft movements, male dancers are also fine.

Except for the lead dancer, Li Qing, who is disguised as a man in an ancient style, all the dancers in this issue are boys, some are real people, and some are holographic projections.

When male dancers perform Chinese-style dances, in addition to their natural explosive power and sense of strength, when they perform those ancient and soft dance moves, they have a unique charm of rigidity and softness compared to female dancers. With ornamental and visual impact.

After this episode ended, Li Qing finally came out on top again and got No.1 in the current episode.

You must know that after the baptism of the previous episode, everyone's perception of holographic projection technology in this episode has actually dropped significantly, and the novelty is much less. For example, the professional jury only gave a passing score.

The industry may still be a bit noncommittal about the concept of Chinese style dance, which remains to be seen, but among the people, Chinese style dance has already formed a trend of starting a prairie fire.

So even though the professional jury did not give high marks, the other judges were very good, and I really like Li Qing's choreography in this issue.

Even in their opinion, the choreography of this episode is even more exciting than "Guanghan Palace".

Nowadays, audiences like to watch the national style dance, and the media also like to hype the concept of national style, because the traffic of related topics and the ratings of the costume dramas that are currently being broadcast have all increased significantly.

Not to mention merchants, many entertainment brokerage companies are already looking for actors and scripts, and are preparing to participate in costume drama projects to gain popularity.

As for the unsatisfactory comments made by some professional judges, such as "not artistic enough", "the costumes are a bit deviant", "the movements are too simple and amateurish"... etc., let alone the other three parties did not take it seriously, even Many people in the industry also feel that these few are carping.

Especially a group of professional dancers in jazz dance and street dance, they can't wait to scold directly on the spot.

Li Qing came up with national style jazz dance and national style hip-hop dance. Although it bears the prefix of "national style", it is also a kind of jazz dance or hip-hop dance. It is a disguised way to promote our dance, but you said she His dance is not artistic enough, isn't that tantamount to scolding our jazz dance and street dance for not being able to make it to the stage?

Art?What is art?

To put it bluntly, in Huaguo, the art of the people is called art, and the art that the public likes to hear and see is called art!
Those foreign arts that are so high that people can’t appreciate them, such as classical ballet and classical piano, are leftovers from the upper class. The so-called artistry is actually defined by them themselves. Demonstrate superior class status.

In China, too much emphasis is placed on this, regardless of whether it is real art or not, it is at least politically incorrect in essence, divorced from the masses, and is not conducive to the popularization and promotion of traditional culture.

Anyway, there were only a few conservatives who sang the naysayers, and they didn't cause much trouble. After the two episodes of the program were broadcast, the national style dance has been widely recognized by the public.

This is the trend of the times. Even if Li Qing's dance may lack some so-called "artistic quality", it still cannot block its dazzling light.

Along with it, the three songs of Jay Chou's national style, "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Huo Yuanjia", and "Dragon Fist", also rejuvenated the new year.

Of course, these three songs were relatively popular, but they were not as well-known as Jay Chou's other hit songs before. Now, thanks to Li Qing's dance bonus, the number of online downloads and auditions has skyrocketed. Cold Palace" and "Guanghan Ballad" directly dominated the top five music charts.

A week later, three more songs related to the show's dance entered the top ten of the music rankings, and two of them directly airborne No. 2 and No. [-].

The three songs are all new songs, all of which are national style songs brought over by Fang Jie. Naturally, they are all sung by Li Qing and choreographed for national style dances. They participated in the fourth episode of "The Great Master of Dance".

The three songs are "Red Shao Wish", "Peach Blossom Smile", and "Half Pot Yarn". Among them, the song "Peach Blossom Smile" and its choreography are the most popular, which has attracted countless people, especially the little girls. .

"Hong Shao Yuan" does not need to be explained. In the previous life, it was considered a relatively famous national style song. In terms of choreography, Li Qing used national style jazz dance to arrange, and the costumes are very eye-catching improved ancient red clothes. It looks very rhythmic and visually impactful.

"Half Pot Yarn" adopts the Chinese classical dance style with gentle movements, showing the unique charm of ancient dancing postures and the tender and feminine temperament of Chinese style, which is pleasing to the eye and haunts the soul.

As for "Peach Blossom Laughter", if you listen to this song alone, it feels like a good national style song, but if it is paired with Li Qing's dance, it will be instantly invincible.

The melody and temperament of this song is very similar to "Guanghan Palace". The corresponding dance style is in the same line as the Jade Rabbit Dance, and it is also very naughty and cute.

But the jade rabbit dance embodies the cuteness of small animals like rabbits, and "Peach Blossom Laugh" is really a kind of cuteness of little girls and girls, so the dance is more lively and cheerful, making people feel carefree and carefree. A good feeling of pure health.

The dance movements are more difficult than "Guanghan Palace", but they are still relatively simple. The main reason is that the frequency of movements is relatively fast, and it is tiring to dance. Square dance aunts may not have the physical strength to handle it.

But this is not a problem for the young girls. On the night of the show, many people uploaded imitation dance videos on the Internet, and the dances were not bad, not inferior to Li Qing's live performance.

This is the advantage of the simple and easy-to-learn dance movements. As long as the movements are magical, the spread speed is extremely fast.

In terms of analogy, its magical effect is very similar to Girls' Generation's "GEE". Even if you just find a passerby in Korea, you can say "GEEGEE" a few times and do one or two cute little moves.

Such a magical "Peach Blossom Laugh" was not only loved by little girls in China, but even children in kindergartens and elementary schools learned it one after another. Later, the parents who brought them also fell into the trap and had to accompany them The children sang and danced "Peach Blossom Laugh" together.

This phenomenon is very similar to "The Lonely Brave Man" in the previous life. Many adults have not heard of this song, but it has been popular among elementary school students across the country for a while. Completely "read" the song.

In short, "Peach Blossom Laughter" became popular, not only the dance, but also the songs.

With the addition of the other two songs, Fang Jie's status as "Qu Daddy" has been established once again. Therefore, audiences watching "The Great Master of Dance" program, in addition to waiting for Li Qing's dance in each episode, are also wondering whether Fang Jie will release a new song. There are great expectations.

As for Fang Jie and Li Qing, they did not disappoint the audience.

In the fifth episode of "The Great Master of Dance", Fang Jie made a big move in order to make Li Qing's dance soundtrack, and used the beautiful and atmospheric song "Big Fish and Begonia".

The song "Previous Life" was written by Yin Yue, composed by Qian Lei, and sung by Zhou Shen. It was released on May 2016, 5.

The lyrics and music themselves are not the typical ancient style and rhyme, but the melody is long and long, the lyrics are rich in imagery and there are many moving details, like poetry, which directly touches people's hearts, and the melody of the chorus is vast and ethereal, with a bit of traditional Chinese culture. Classical sadness, so it is still a Chinese style song.

With the soundtrack of this song, Li Qing arranged it into a very beautiful dance, coupled with the dazzling holographic projection special effects. After the program was broadcast, this dance was praised by the media as "the most beautiful national dance". Wind Modern Dance".

Of course, the previous "Peach Blossom Smile" and "Compendium of Materia Medica" were also crowned by the media as "the cutest national dance" and "the most rhythmic national jazz dance".

It's just that the title of "the most rhythmic national style jazz dance" was changed before, after the fifth episode of the program was broadcast.

Because in this issue of Li Qing's dance, in addition to the national style modern dance "Big Fish and Begonia", there is also a national style jazz dance with "The Wind Rises" as the soundtrack.

The song "The Wind Rises" was carried over by Fang Jie as early as in "Supergirl". After so many years, it has been repeatedly sung by other singers. It is a classic in the hearts of many listeners, and it is still on the top of the music list. Ranked very high.

Its libretto has a sense of story and picture, and now it is used in dance, which naturally has a special charm, which brings a lot of bonus to the dance, so "the most rhythmic national style jazz dance" is given by this dance. replaced.

A similar situation happened with the name "The Cutest National Dance". It used to belong to the Jade Rabbit Dance in "Guanghan Palace". After the broadcast of the last episode, the media did not hesitate to wear the name On "Peach Blossom Laugh".

In short, after the four episodes of the program, the media and the public have fully accepted the concept of "national style dance" and have a clearer understanding of the style of national style dance.

And Li Qing, as the proposer, practitioner and representative figure of the national style dance, even if the program official did not make a clear statement, even if she has always modestly stated that she still has many shortcomings, she is still learning and comprehending , and no one would deny that she is already the founder of a school of dance forest.

Perhaps, the title of Grand Master of the Dance Forest may still be somewhat controversial and somewhat deserved, but the status of "Dancer" is definitely worthy of the name, which can be seen from the changes in others' names for her.

In the past, people usually called her by her name Li Qing in public, but in private they might call her "Mrs. Li" or "Miss Li".

Nowadays, many people prefer to use the elegant title of "Teacher Li".

Now it’s not like the later generations. People in the entertainment industry are called “teachers” whether they are human or not. At present, everyone is quite cautious about this title. It seems ordinary, but it actually represents a kind of professional ability for others. recognition and respect.

With her efforts, Guofeng Dance successfully appeared in the program "The Master of Dance Forest", which established the unique position of this dance genre among many dance genres, and became one of the biggest highlights of this program.

Other choreographers in the show also began to gradually try this dance style. In the sixth episode, a choreographer took Fang Jie's "Xiaoyaotan" and Jay Chou's "Dongfeng Break" and choreographed a song by The dance performed by a group of male dancers achieved a relatively good performance.

The reason why it is relatively good is that in the sixth episode of the program, "Ms. Li" still dedicated a classic national style dance, compared with which others seem a bit eclipsed.

In this episode of the show, Fang Jie did not move to carry the songs, but asked Li Qing to find a famous domestic orchestra and arranger to compose a pure music dance soundtrack.

The soundtrack and dance are called "Ink Painting". You can tell from the name that the song must be a Chinese style song, and the dance must have the connotation and rhythm of Chinese ink painting.

In fact, this is indeed the case, but apart from these highlights, the most eye-catching and the most talked about by the audience are the dance costumes.

The dance costume of "Ink and Wash Danqing" has a waist-length white brocade short jacket with slanted breasts, which looks very similar to the clothing style of female college students in the Republic of China, but the tailoring is more simple and slim.

The lower body is a black and white ink gauze skirt with gradients. The gradient of each dancer's ink gauze skirt is different. With the top and short jacket, the overall appearance has different levels, and forms a very harmonious connotation and elegant beauty.

When the dancers dance, especially when the skirts are twirling, what the audience sees is like blossoming peonies with splashed ink, which has strong visual effects and appreciation.

In this program, maybe the dance has a very artistic conception and charm, which is very in line with the professional judges' pursuit of artistry. For the first time, he scored almost full marks.

This is equivalent to the general recognition of Li Qing's choreography level and artistic accomplishment in the industry. Although it is not stated explicitly, it is actually an acknowledgment of her identity as a dancer and has a certain authority similar to official certification.

At this point, Fang Jie secretly set the competition goal for Li Qing, and it was considered a success, so he felt that this super big nanny could breathe a sigh of relief and retire.

As for the future of "The Great Master of Dancing Forest", does Li Qing still want to show something? Anyway, he is too lazy to make a move, just let it be. If my wife wants to continue playing, she can play it by herself. He has more important things to do.

These important matters are related to the photovoltaic industry, and also related to a series of chain reactions brought about by the program "Dancing Master" and the holographic projection business.

In August, after the continuous advertising of the "Dancing Master" program, especially the "Hatsune Miku" concert held in Japan was a great success, the business volume of holographic projection ushered in a blowout, and countless domestic and foreign companies came to negotiate business .

So now it is no longer a matter of counting money and getting hand cramps, but a problem of seeing a large sum of money approaching in front of your eyes, but you can only stare blankly at it.

Because the business volume is too large, manpower is not enough.

Especially Boiling Digital and Boiling Games, which are in charge of content production, are simply too busy.

There are indeed tens of thousands of artists and designers in the two subsidiaries, but they have always had their own jobs.

The holographic projection business is actually a sideline of the two companies. At the beginning, they just planned to make some money casually, but it turned out to be a big source of profit.

From a technical point of view, the real high-tech content of holographic projection technology is the hardware equipment materials, and some materials, such as projection films, have to be imported from abroad.

As for holographic projection content production and software production, there is no high technical content, and it is not much different from ordinary 3D cartoons. However, the problem now is that these tasks without technical content cannot be done. use up.

So this business is actually collecting money, without any difficulty, the key is to see whether the collection is fast or not. If it is too slow, once other international companies flock in to share the cake, there will be less cake in their own stomachs.

The problem of insufficient manpower is easy to solve, and there is no need to recruit a large number of people, just post private tasks on the boiling engine platform, and hand over a large amount of basic modeling and drawing work to other small companies, studios or private experts to complete immediately Can.

But new problems emerged.

As a boiling game, business orders are not a problem. The problem is that if you want to make money quickly, you have to let the people below complete the task quickly, that is, the efficiency of task completion determines the speed of making money.

However, the work efficiency of these private workshops is very low. The amount of work that can be completed in a day by Boiling Digital takes at least a week or even half a month in private workshops.

This is not because the technical level of private workshops is not up to standard, but because the computer hardware conditions greatly limit their performance.

The image materials used in holographic projection are basically 3D. In addition to modeling, you also need to do some post-rendering work. During the period, you need to repeatedly debug to see the rendering effect. Although ordinary computers can also do these modeling renderings It works, but the speed is extremely slow, which greatly delays efficiency.

However, the configurations of the computers used by domestic private workshops are uneven. The better ones can only be configured for tens of thousands of yuan, and if they are installed with an Apple operating system, they can make do with it.

As far as this is concerned, it can barely be regarded as a top-end office computer in China. Most of the other private art creators use high-end computers with a price of 7 to 8000 yuan.

This is different from later generations. The reason why high-end computers in later generations are expensive is mainly because of the expensive graphics card. At this moment, the 7 yuan computer is spent wisely, and the performance is already very high. Not bad.

As for Boiling Games, a diskless workstation system is used, so everyone uses a computer with almost server performance. The key is that resources and materials can be shared, and the work efficiency is naturally high.

So manpower is not a problem, the main reason is that the efficiency is too low. The work that could be done by one person, but now because the computer is not good, it may take 10 people to complete it in the same time.

This is even the case with Boiling Games and Boiling Digital. There are not enough manpower, but the main reason is that there are not enough computers. Even if the performance of the computers in the company is already high, the rendering work is still relatively time-consuming, takes up too much computer, and consumes a lot of power. .

In fact, "taking up the computer and wasting time" is a layman's term. In essence, it means that the computing power is not enough.

The solution to insufficient computing power is to either add hardware configuration, or simply add another computer, or build your own server like boiling digital and boiling games, and then use the diskless workstation to use the computing power of the server on demand. Assigned to its workstation computers.

Adding configuration or buying a computer is impossible, at least not feasible for private workshops. They have already configured a computer with high-end performance, but you still ask them to spend money to add firewood to it. They don’t have it at all. That motivation, anyway, it's not impossible to do these private tasks slowly.

Boiling Games can do this, but the price/performance ratio is too low. It is better to directly expand the scale of the diskless workstation and greatly increase the computing power of the server.

But to expand the server scale of diskless workstations, it is meaningless if the scale is small. If the scale is large, it is not a matter of several servers, and the maintenance cost, power cost and damage cost are all high.

So this has to be done by professional companies, such as Tencent Internet, which directly uses IDC as the computing power center.

However, IDC is mainly used as an Internet server. Its main purpose is to process data exchange rather than data calculation. It emphasizes data exchange efficiency rather than calculation efficiency.

Moreover, with the current scale of Tencent Internet, it only basically guarantees the normal operation of the servers of many Internet companies in China. If it is not necessary to do business properly, at most it will add the computing power center of Boiling Group itself.

But this still doesn't solve the problems that countless private workshops and studios are currently facing, and the work efficiency still hasn't improved.

Unless, Boiling Group helps them buy computers or replace accessories...

But this is impossible, there is no free lunch in the world.

So after some weighing, under the needs of future industrial layout, under the pressure and temptation of making money, Fang Jie decided to invest in the construction of a super-large-scale boiling supercomputing center in addition to the original Tencent Internet.

The main service objects of this supercomputing center are not ordinary Internet companies, but those customers who have high requirements for computing power but do not have high requirements for the timeliness of network transmission.

For example, private workshops that require computer rendering speed are one of the supercomputing center's customers.

They can submit the rendering work to the supercomputing center for processing through the network. After the supercomputing center quickly obtains the results, the rendering effect is fed back to their personal computers through the network. In this way, the work efficiency is greatly improved.

Of course, there is a fee for this service, but it's certainly much more cost-effective than using your own computer to handle the rendering work.

For example, if a relatively complex character is modeled, a single-core CPU computer takes an hour to render each time, and subsequent rendering and debugging may be performed more than ten times or even dozens of times to achieve a satisfactory rendering effect.

Other things aside, the cost of electricity alone is better if it is used by residents, but if it is used by businesses, the daily rendering cost will reach at least 5-10 yuan.

In the supercomputing center, if the customer chooses a 10-core CPU for rendering, the computing efficiency will be increased by ten times, and a rendering job can be completed in about 5 minutes. Only 0.05 cents.

In this way, if you use the supercomputing center for 1 hour, you can render the effect map 12 times, and you can basically adjust it to the effect you are satisfied with. The total cost of commercial electricity is less than 2 yuan, but if you render it yourself , It may take two or three days to do it, and the cost is much higher than that of the supercomputing center.

Therefore, the use of a supercomputing center not only saves costs, but also greatly improves work efficiency. On a larger scale, because it saves power consumption, it also greatly reduces carbon emissions. It is a project that is energy-saving, environmentally friendly, and beneficial to the country and the people.

Image rendering is only a small business of the supercomputing center. One of its real main functions is to help scientific research institutions repeatedly carry out digital modeling, digital simulation experiments, and scientific computing research. Secondly, it can provide supercomputers for all enterprises and government agencies. Computing power support, reducing its operating costs and improving work efficiency,
Among these businesses, artificial intelligence research is the only one. The current Tencent Internet cannot afford such computing power. Only the supercomputing center can undertake this important task. Therefore, this is also the long-term layout of the AI ​​industry.

Moreover, the establishment of a supercomputing center has another great advantage, which is that it can support the photovoltaic industry that is on the verge of collapse.

The supercomputing center consumes a lot of energy. It is very similar to the mining machines in the previous life. It also tests the computing power and electricity costs. Miners often build their own mining areas in areas with cheap electricity. Of course, the supercomputing center is also the same.

If the supercomputing center is also built in the west, a lot of the electricity produced by the photovoltaic power station can be digested locally, saving the loss of power transmission and bringing benefits to the photovoltaic industry, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

As for the network speed delay that may be caused by too far away, that is not a problem.

Because this type of calculation does not need to consider timeliness too much, its calculation results are not limited by the speed of the network, unlike online games, which require much higher data transmission rates than data calculation rates, and the supercomputing center obtains the calculation results After that, sending the data to the lab a few seconds late doesn't make a difference.

All in all, due to the needs of strategic layout, Fang Jie put forward the concept of "counting from east to west" at least 10 years earlier than in his previous life.

Its impact is definitely not visible at present, but in the future, all walks of life, especially technology research and development and technology acceleration, will inevitably play a pivotal and key role...

(End of this chapter)