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Today the government of Huzen Hagen is pround to unveil the plans for the RWC Black Steel computer. The computer is believed to be far more power full then any other on this planet once it has finally been completed. Final processing power for 1 computer is expected to be 128 exaflops (or about 1.6million times the power of the fastest computer in the rl world).

Black Steel will not just consist of huge rows of cabinets but smaller units that will sit inside the ships and aircraft of the allaince. Leaps in technology have allowed us to crap huge processing power into a tiny space, the CPU used operates at speeds of about 50 gigaflops. 4 chips are put onto a PCI card and 20 of these are placed into a module, giving each module a speed of 4 teraflops. Each module is 20cm x 20cm x 100cm and each cabinet house 32 modules giving it a speed of 128 teraflops. It is this ability to put huge processing power in such a small package at a cost many many times smaller then was possible then before the invention of the CPU used that will allow Black Steel to be incorporate in thousands of system.

Black Steel's enormous processing power will allow RWC nations to have a technological advantage over all others. The system will be linked to every member and gather all the data from RADAR, CELLDAR, satellites and intercepted data. Black Steel will allow the intelligent services of the RWC to crack and process all manner of intercepted coomunications herelding a new era of awareness. RWC members will have access to some of the most complete intelligence dossiers on other nations, the eventual goal to have 0 unreadable enemy traffic. Black Steel will be linked up to existing super-computers of allaince members, Gou Fu and ANGEL for additional power.

A bit of SIC and a bit of OOC:The center piece of Black Steel will be the computer centers, each of these will have 128 exaflops at there disposal. The computer centers will 1,000,000 cabinets and the first one is already nearing completion underground. The scale of these centers is massive, the cabinets will be housed in groups of 1000. Each room will be 60m x 60m with 100 of these room son each floor, the building will be 10 stories high (or rather low as for security reasons most of the centers will be underground). Each of centers will cost 5.12trillion, a massive sum but when compared with the benefits it is tiny. The cost/performance is surprisingly tiny, compare Black Steel to other super computers:

Computer:_____ $/gigaflop
Black Stee l 40
Blue Gene | 1800
Earth simulator | 7800 [/SIC]

Black Steel has the eventual goal of a Zetta flop along the network along with super computer power inside fighters and ships. The power the system can give will allow the RWC to dominate those who seek to destroy us

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(OOC:Gigaflop, love it)

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Good work, HH... another RWC project comes to light :D

ooc; Funny, i happen to use a set of similiar systems.

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ooc; Funny, i happen to use a set of similiar systems.

OOC: This is basicly just a very very big super computer, however you couldnt possibly afford one on the scale of this one in and this uses more advancened CPUS then are normally available further adding to yoru costs

[OOC: Hmmm... I better get designing an even ub3r3r CPU. I would say good work, but you'll probably try to use it to pwn me in future =( ]

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Kirishima Labs, Antarctica*

One could look at it from every possible angle, but the eventual result would stay the same: Cataclysms and civil wars sucked, when it came to the economy.

Hence, why only a handful of technicians and IT specialists were working in the labs, not so much because it was their job but because it was their hobby. Sure, slowly, the economy was going up, again (At least outside DA proper), but still, they had their problems.

Nonetheless... The more recent news didn't manage to receive much more than a chuckle.

"Well... Somewhat impressive, I guess?"

"For backwater nations with populations sufficiently dumbed down to actually accept their regimes? Sure."

Both technicians cackled. Yes, development as well as production in DA had suffered, but hey... They had been ranked 15th in the world for largest IT sector... Combine that with the 130th/ 120th most efficient education system in the world, and you get some mindboggling results.

Precataclysm, anyway. But then, the cataclysm was a recent thing, mere weeks (Well, ok, slightly over a month) ago.

"Well, perhaps we can buy it to use as a handy calculator..."

"For the children, before we let them try the good stuff."

Both laughed. "You know, I do wonder what the Hack thinks about this... Last I checked, their stuff was still a tad better than ours."

"No idea. I guess the cartoonists in Chiba City will have some fun, for tomorrow's caricatures."

"Heh."

ooc: * As usually, this refers to an island nearby, not to the actual continent

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OOC: Huzen Hagen never, ever share what I told you on MSN with anyone. What I explained is thé key principle of our computing madhouse.

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The 2 young men walked past the rows of black cabinets, hundreds of them just sat there motionless. The whir of machines could be heard as robots automaticly traveled up and down the shells placing in the modules. "I tell you what", said of the men to the other "these machines are damn good looking"

"No holds barred, this thing was designed to look the part. They reckon these things are going to allow us to put super-computer power into the next fighters to come out of Doomingsland" the other said holding one of the billions of chips placed inside the modules. They walked toward a large steel door as there footsteps echoed about the cold walls. Both went to opposit sides of the door before simultaneously giving finger print and iris scans, the door unlocked and they walked inside. They walked in and looked at the desktop machines everyone was working on, they took off the anti-contamination suits they were wearing and hung them up by the rest and sat down at there machines.

The project leader came out of his office and began to address them all "Ok people Black Steel is well on its way to being finished and we need this program ready to go as soon as we're live. Jimmy!", he shouted at one of the computer scientists "ETA on getting this program finished"

Jimmy took a quick look at his screen and replyed "Err i reckon well get it done by today boss"

"Superb, incase you've forgotten what were doing we have been tasked with writing the first program to run on Black Steel. We have been given 72 hours of Black Steels full power to find as many primes as we can. Team 2 is just about to finish the new version of TWIRL so make sure your done before them. With both done Black Steel will give us primes of previously incomprehensible size. If your too braindead to figure out what that means ill spell it out for you, pretty much every secure system in use today uses huge numbers which traditionally have taken years to factorise to reamin safe. Black Steel will render those and future keys useless but people arnt going to know about that. Now on a more lighthearted note you will see you all have a new message, its a transcript of the Preatonian governments announcement that they are trying to build something better then Black Steel. I found it thourghlly amusing, now get back to work"

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Would you mind opening a store in my nation. A Computer store for my people. Kind of like Gateway, COMPUSA.

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OOC:An impressive system, especially linking it directly with ships and aircraft, no doubt with vehicles as well however transferring all that information to locations where it can be analysed and then turned in to something useful is going to monumental. Sure you might be able to break encryption however what’s the use when it takes days for it to be sifted through the rest of the communications intercepts, recognised for being of value and then decrypted, by which time you might find it useless in immediate terms yet still rather valuable for gaining an insight.

As a whole I don’t think the system can work as an all seeing object, it’ll work on national levels with various nations sifting the information they collect and using their existing capabilities to find the information they really need to know, which can then be sent off to a main site which houses these super-computers. Sorting all of those incoming signals however would require an even more massive task, not that I’m saying it cannot be done but that at the end of the day it still needs a human being to keep the process moving. Administration is a killer, it only takes one person to not follow the right procedure and you’ll find that information simply slips through the cracks and ends up being lost.

As a national tool for priority communication traffic you know is valuable, this is a great system. As a combined tool for an entire alliance I’m sceptical, the requirements placed on the system would be vast and a central site would be unable to handle that and I think you realise that as well really. You’re not going to achieve a global picture that keeps track of everything, it would worth devoting your attention to certain areas then you’d gain the mastery you’re after but globally there’s just too much signal traffic, too much movement going on for a person to comprehend.
The computers might handle it all, but the little men at the computers will be out of their depth.

Still nice though.

OOC:An impressive system, especially linking it directly with ships and aircraft, no doubt with vehicles as well however transferring all that information to locations where it can be analysed and then turned in to something useful is going to monumental. Sure you might be able to break encryption however what’s the use when it takes days for it to be sifted through the rest of the communications intercepts, recognised for being of value and then decrypted, by which time you might find it useless in immediate terms yet still rather valuable for gaining an insight.

As a whole I don’t think the system can work as an all seeing object, it’ll work on national levels with various nations sifting the information they collect and using their existing capabilities to find the information they really need to know, which can then be sent off to a main site which houses these super-computers. Sorting all of those incoming signals however would require an even more massive task, not that I’m saying it cannot be done but that at the end of the day it still needs a human being to keep the process moving. Administration is a killer, it only takes one person to not follow the right procedure and you’ll find that information simply slips through the cracks and ends up being lost.

As a national tool for priority communication traffic you know is valuable, this is a great system. As a combined tool for an entire alliance I’m sceptical, the requirements placed on the system would be vast and a central site would be unable to handle that and I think you realise that as well really. You’re not going to achieve a global picture that keeps track of everything, it would worth devoting your attention to certain areas then you’d gain the mastery you’re after but globally there’s just too much signal traffic, too much movement going on for a person to comprehend.
The computers might handle it all, but the little men at the computers will be out of their depth.

Still nice though.


OOC: Yeah we've realised that this will be a mamouth task but there are ways to sort and prioritise and sort data very quickly. This is already about 1.6 millions times more powerfull then Blue Gene so its extreamly powerful but most likely it will be upgraded. As with the planes and ships most likely the planes will have stand alone systems just to help them along and the information they will get from RADAR etc. would be sifed at larger sites.

When Toam Joad says something is good, then it's good. Anyway, if you knew what was running behind the scenes then you'd be even more impressed.

OOC: Long as you're aware of the hundreds of thousands of signals each hour you'll be sorting and by the looks of things that's before the system goes fully online, I'm in the process of designing a communications system for my nation and I've managed to rope in a friend of mine who works in telecommunications.

I'm just using existing technology working from platoon commander and up, I haven't even given thought to naval or aerial units being linked in to such a setup other then the fact that aircraft can be contacted and information gained from aerial recon can be patched through to a platoon commander, pretty limited but it all adds up to provide a strategic image of particular sectors.

All I hear from my friend is; dedicated satellites, concrete or wood pylons, use existing infrastructure or new, transmission frequency, servers, routers, HUBs and all sorts of stuff but I know when he's finished it'll be a mighty fine file I'll be abel to sit back and read, which reminds me I should public more.

When I say something is good, then it's good, when did this happen?

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Bump, IC post coming soon