Chapter 647 [Chapter of the Fatal Game] Ninety-six: The self-evolution of the server

The last time Chen Yan went offline in the newspaper's server, the location he went online this time was still in the newspaper's server, and the look and feel in front of him had fundamentally changed from the last time he went offline.

A large amount of surging data flow appeared in front of the quantum clone.

Countless data streams converged into a lake in front of him, forming a closed data world in front of him.

This is the server where "Strike Simulator" is located, and where all data uploaded and downloaded from the simulator client is integrated.

To Chen Yan's expectation, the data flow that gathered into the lake actually produced a certain degree of "reification" - the cold data formed the appearance of some things:

Above the lake is a three-dimensional event model of streets, crowds, and ongoing conflicts...

As more and more data flows appear in the server, these representations constitute various living things in the data lake inside the server.

These concrete and vivid things floated on the lake made of data. The scene was strange and bizarre enough to stimulate Chen Yan's nerves.

'That's how the online world started.'

Chen Yanruo has some enlightenment.

'Countless data compiled by humans are materialized into everything in the online world, and these things form the city seen by the quantum clone.'

'The quantum clone, as a [resident] of the network world, has seen the things that are embodied in the data. So, can the editors of those programs see such a majestic city?'

Based on Chen Yan’s experience in his previous life, most of them cannot be seen - programmers cannot see the high-rise buildings they have built, just like they cannot see the mountains of code they have compiled.

'The data gathered in the server has begun to materialize, which means that the data is large enough and rich enough, which means... the database has become larger than imagined.'

Chen Yan quickly found the hard drive that stored the game development end.

The technology in Yanan City is not yet able to produce solid-state drives. Computer terminals use mechanical hard drives to store data. Now that alloy technology is not yet developed enough, the maximum storage capacity of a single hard drive is only 4 G.

The capacity of the game development database has reached 1 terabyte - including the capacity of the computer system itself, at least nearly 300 such mechanical hard drives are needed to meet the storage needs.

‘Why is there only 1 T on the development side... How can it be possible to reach 1 T simply by accumulating text? The text information capacity of the entire civilization cannot reach 1 T...’

Chen Yan issued a command to search for keywords in the database, and keywords immediately jumped out of the server data lake like a swarm of sardines.

Chen Yan was dazzled by what he saw, and an unacceptable thought came to his mind.

'According to the underlying logic I wrote, the entire "Strike Simulator" database... has completely become a mountain of data!'

He calmed down for a moment.

'Well...it's actually not accurate to say it's a mountain of data. To be more precise, it's an unclassified database.'

'The database is in the development side, and the client itself does not contain these data. The database will be called from the server when the simulator is running, and the simulation will be deduced and simulated according to the established logic.'

Chen Yan raised his head and looked at the center of the server's data ocean——

Countless upstream and downloaded data streams were bundled together and "flowed backwards" from various nodes in the data ocean of the server in front of Chen Yan.

‘How come it’s going backwards? Is the network stuck? No…this is…

Quantum clone, increase visual refresh frequency.’

As the pressure on Chen Yan's consciousness increases, the number of frames that the quantum clone can distinguish increases, and the data flowing "backward" in front of him suddenly becomes "forward", with a transmission speed faster than any data flow Chen Yan has seen before.

Much faster!

'This kind of reverse flow... turns out to be because the data flows too fast, resulting in the phenomenon of visual persistence... Damn it, does the data also follow the rules of physics?'

Chen Yan looked at the accelerated data flow in the entire server in front of him, and had some inexplicable thoughts in his heart.

'The data transfer speed has increased, and the size of the hard drive has become larger and larger. The next step is to change to solid state... The last time I saw them, they were still using small storage hard drives.

Within two or three days, a 4G mechanical hard drive was already used.

The world is still developing rapidly...'

In the data ocean of the entire server, a certain node communicates data with the outside world the fastest.

Chen Yan entered the node and immediately saw the starting point and end point of the data flow - the game forum that continuously accumulates and feeds back information.

‘This is where the database capacity of 1 T originally comes from!’

Judging from the running records of the forum background, the forum has just been added for about a day, and the rapidly growing amount of data has caused the server to crash more than 30 times. Fortunately, it was quickly repaired every time.

At the same time, out of consideration for future profits, newspaper staff spent a lot of money to purchase more advanced switches and install broadband with larger traffic, so now, the frequency of forum downtime has become less and less.

Chen Yan only designed the forum at the beginning, but did not divide it into specific modules. Now the forum is not only divided into more than ten specific modules, but also has subdivided secondary sections under each module, and through the search entrance on the main section

By performing a keyword search, you can easily find any posts related to the keyword.

At this point in time, the most popular post on the [Future] section, the largest section on the forum, has been viewed more than 100,000 times.

'This post was posted by a user named "Future Road"...'

Chen Yan easily found the user information of "The Road to the Future" through the IP address. This person's name is Francis Underwood, a statistics professor at Oxford University in High Street.

The name of this post is called "Data Analysis of Strike Simulator Using Statistical Models".

There is a lot of content in the whole post, but it is simple to say the least. It is to apply the scientific statistical model to the strike simulator and draw the conclusion that "the simulator has strong practical significance".

But this post is difficult to understand. Chen Yan didn’t recognize any of the mathematical formulas listed by Professor Francis Underwood. They looked like ghost drawings.

There are about 30,000 words of text + formula derivation. The content is so hard-core that it is difficult for most people to accept it. Logically speaking, such a post should not be popular, and it should even be buried directly. How can something that the public does not understand at all be so popular?

What about big traffic?

This is contrary to the traffic phenomenon in Chen Yan’s worldview.

‘Perhaps it’s because the Internet is still in its barbaric growth stage, the online world of this era has unlimited possibilities, and traffic has not been monopolized or controlled, so the situation of bad money driving out good money has not yet occurred on a large scale?’

Chen Yan wasn't sure.

What Chen Yan can know is that after deducing that "the simulator has strong practical significance", Professor Francis Underwood confirmed the outcome that "the rule of the William Adams Group will bring about the destruction of Yanan City".

His scientific affirmation is also the fundamental reason why this post has been viewed more than 100,000 times.
Chapter completed!