I Kidnapped An Alien Civilization

2021-07-07

Chapter 185 Anomalies in Titan

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Country M

Titan Supercomputer Located in the corner of the laboratory, this is a separate building. The barbed wire grid separates it from everything around it, and the soldiers at the gate with live ammunition silently tell the particularity of this building.

Jimmy is a regular lab clerk who has been with the computing monster since college. Computing monster is the name he gave to the Titan supercomputer. In Jimmy’s eyes, it is a monster that devours countless energy and occasionally spits out a few boring numbers. Every piece of equipment here, every staff member including Jimmy is just a screw on the monster’s body.

Jimmy is happy to work here. His work is very easy. When there is no computing task, he is responsible for checking the monitoring lights installed in the monster’s body. If there is any problem with the lights, he only needs to call the maintenance department. When there is a computing task, he only needs to mount the mobile encrypted disk on the mouth of the computing monster.

Of course, the fact that a college student can get such a well-paid position has a lot to do with his background. Jimmy’s father was a professional soldier, and his big brother died in overseas wars. Therefore, although Jimmy’s education and ability are very mediocre, he can get this job with a monthly salary of more than 5 figures.

The only thing he is dissatisfied with is the militarized management method adopted here. Mobile phones, tablets, and even computers cannot be connected to the Internet. Mobile storage devices without specific chips are not allowed to be brought in.

In the days when there is no task, he can only chat with a few engineers in their 50s. In his opinion, these nerds are so boring that they don’t watch movies or listen to music. The most unacceptable thing for Jimmy is that they don’t even watch cartoons. Don’t they know that One Piece is the best cartoon in the world?

The biggest advantage of staying in one place for a long time is that you can discover some unexpected secrets.

The same is true for Jimmy, who was overjoyed that the Ancient One still turned on when he found a missing computer in a utility room.

Although this computer cannot be connected to the Internet, like other computers in the lab, it can mount a removable encrypted disk, which is enough for Jimmy.

After finally getting to get off work, Jimmy slipped a mobile encryption disk into his backpack in the corner of the lab, and said goodbye to those boring engineers as usual.

“Jimmy, are you off work?” The soldier on duty greeted him when he saw him.

Jimmy smiled: “Paco, you are on duty today. Listen to my father that you are getting married soon.”

Soldier Paco seemed to ignore the normal security procedures. , opened the gate and replied: “It’s scheduled for next week, you and your father must come to the wedding.”

“Of course!” Jimmy walked out of the heavily guarded laboratory with his backpack in this way. As imagined, most of the soldiers on duty here are his father’s former subordinates. For such an “acquaintance”, they will not check at all, and this mobile encryption disk will not trigger the security alarm because of the specific chip installed. alarm.

So once a week Jimmy will do this, he will save the latest One Piece episodes downloaded from pirated sites to his portable hard drive at home, and then have free time to sneak in the utility room to watch.

The same is true this time. The One Piece that Jimmy is looking forward to has been updated again. He can’t wait to open BY and start downloading.

It was just this time, he didn’t notice that the capacity of the episodes of One Piece downloaded through BT was larger than usual.

On the second day, Jimmy came to the laboratory leisurely. Unlike in the past, today happened to have a new task. A pharmaceutical company needed Titan to analyze the chemical formula of a medicine.

“It seems that I can’t see it today.” He walked out of the laboratory with a mobile encryption disk. There was an office outside the gate that was specially used for data transfer.

When he arrived, the staff of the pharmaceutical factory were already waiting in front of the data transfer machine.

Jimmy was not worried about the One Piece episodes on the hard drive, but he turned his head and said, “Turn around, this is a confidential project while inserting the hard drive into the interface of the data switch. .”

The staff of the pharmaceutical factory turned around in a hurry. Titan’s work is always very mysterious. As someone around Titan, Jimmy is naturally full of mystery.

Jimmy entered the secret key, copied the data into the mobile encrypted disk, watched the One Piece episodes stored in it, and looked at the head helplessly, “It seems that I can only watch it tomorrow.”

After completing the data transfer task, Jimmy returned to the laboratory and mounted the encrypted disk on Titan.

A program enters Titan’s computing pool through the optical cable with the data stream, and deletes its existence in the secure disk, of course, including Jimmy’s favorite One Piece episode.

“Start the Titan supercomputer!” With the click of a staff member’s mouse, a “weng weng” sound was heard in the computer room, and various lights flashed.

“Voltage is OK!”

“Current is OK!”

“Computer load 10%!”

“Computer load 20% !”

“Computer load 80%!”

Several Titan operators looked at each other in blank dismay, according to the preset, this operation will only use Titan super 70% of the computing power of the computer, but now the computer load has reached 80% and is still rising.

“Jimmy, check the Titan’s lights,” an operator shouted over the intercom.

“Call me if you can’t figure it out?” Jimmy walked into the computer room reluctantly. In the laboratory, he hated these operators the most. He often looked down on undergraduates like Jimmy because he had an Academician degree. However, he still carefully checked the various indicators in the computer room, because this was his job.

“A1 is OK, A2 is OK, F12 is OK!” Jimmy looked at all the lights, he shouted into the intercom: “All lights are OK.”

In the control room , a tense atmosphere is spreading. The option of emergency shutdown was put in front of the operators, and they turned their inquiries to the leader.

The head of the operator was sweating, hesitating for a moment, he wanted to wait a little longer.

“Computer load 90%!”

“Computer load 91%!”

“Computer load 95%!”

“ Computer load 95%!”

Finally, the computer load stopped climbing, and everyone was sighed in relief, because the emergency shutdown meant that their previous work had gone awry.

“Everything works!” After a careful inspection, they found nothing wrong.

No problem is the biggest problem. The leading operator has decided that after the program is finished, all equipment will be checked carefully.

After 48 hours, the program finally ran smoothly, and the data was downloaded to the mobile encrypted disk through the optical fiber.

Jimmy is about to leave the lab with an encrypted disk.

“Jimmy wait!” An operator stopped him. “You need to check the encrypted disk in your hand.”

Any device connected to a supercomputer will Need to check, this is an order from their boss.

Jimmy’s palms were sweating, his legs trembled slightly, “Could it be found?”

He tried his best to suppress the trembling hands and gently inserted the encrypted disk into the computer next to him middle.

The operator stared at the encrypted disk and did not notice anything unusual about Jimmy. He opened the encrypted disk letter and checked it carefully. Except for the data similar to chemical formulas, there was no suspicious program in the encrypted disk.

“No problem, you can send it out!”

Jimmy felt as if he had walked through hell when he heard this, “What about those One Piece episodes?” The thought swirled in his mind, but it wasn’t long before it was replaced by “Maybe it was deleted by Titan, who knows what’s going on in the computer?”

After copying the data through the data switch, the staff of the pharmaceutical factory made sure that Jimmy had cleared the chemical formula data in the encrypted disk before leaving with confidence. Because these data are related to the research and development of new drugs worth hundreds of millions, absolutely cannot be drained.

(End of this chapter)