Vol 2 Chapter 469: Breaking Moore's Law

Chapter 469: Breaking Moore's Law

Bruce Allen sat across from Lin Feng with a cup of coffee.

"What's wrong, Bruce, is there any problem?" Lin Feng asked.

"Boss, there is a problem with the supercomputer. I'm afraid things are not as simple as we thought." Bruce sighed.

"What's the matter?" Lin Feng frowned.

"Boss, it's still an old problem, the player's hardware configuration is not enough." Bruce sighed.

"What do you mean? Now 50% of the player's 3d pixel processing data is not taken over by the supercomputer?" Lin Feng asked in surprise.

"Indeed, but we still underestimated the demanding requirements of the swordsman's love and loyalty to serve the country. In the early hours of this morning, the supercomputer had reached the edge of 99.99% load collapse." Bruce frowned.

"What's going on?" Lin Feng was startled.

"It's the same reason, the player's computer configuration is too'bad'." Seeing Lin Fengting's confusion, Bruce explained quickly, "With the development of the game, the players gradually grow in the game, and the types of equipment and martial arts they have will increase. As well as the development of various "continuous move systems", as well as the gradual opening of large-scale tasks, the game will have higher and higher requirements for the player’s computer configuration. With the current player’s configuration, we can only rely on us to run smoothly. Supercomputer."

Bruce sighed. He didn't expect this game to be so demanding on computer configuration. After all, Bruce was just a computer hardware super enthusiast before, not an online game enthusiast. He has never played online games and has very few games. Therefore, he underestimated the demanding requirements of the swordsman's love and loyalty to the country on computer hardware.

"Boss, theoretically speaking, with the current online rate of 170,000 players, 70% of the supercomputer load rate is ideal, so that sufficient resources can be left to prevent large-scale tasks from being launched when more than 100,000 players are at the same time. The geometrically multiplied data flow and voxel image data generated by the map." Bruce explained in detail.

Lin Feng listened and nodded again and again. Nowadays, the player’s computer is really "poor." As the game progresses, players increase in various martial arts. In large-scale battles, especially the epic battles that follow, the data traffic generated at that instant will be thousands of g ( Hard disk capacity unit, 1g=1024m, 1m=1024kb, 1kb=1204 bytes, a Chinese character occupies 2 bytes) to calculate, although there is "cloud computing", but also for the "second world" supercomputers A severe test.

In particular, the three-dimensional pixel image data generated at that time will be geometrically multiplied. The player's computer is absolutely impossible to load, and can only rely on the "Second World" supercomputer. But now the load of the three supercomputers has reached 97%. Once a large-scale battle starts, the three supercomputers are bound to collapse.

"Also, boss, I have calculated carefully. It is ideal for 4 supercomputers to load 200,000 online players. If this number is exceeded, for every 20,000 more players, one supercomputer will be added. This will be very cost-effective." Bruce Reluctantly said, seeing Lin Feng frowned, he comforted the sentence, "If the player’s computer can be upgraded, whether it is to add a memory stick or change to a better graphics card, if it can be collectively replaced, the load capacity of the supercomputer will increase by 20%. ."

Bruce's words are not difficult to understand. With the increase of online players, the load of their supercomputer is not only the data traffic of 20,000 more players, but the data traffic of 220,000 players. To put it simply, the original 4 supercomputers can load 200,000 player traffic, but for every additional 10,000 players, for the supercomputer, it is by no means only calculating the additional data of 10,000 players, but also calculating the original 200,000 players and this. Data generated among 10,000 players. Calculated in this way, the data flow is definitely a geometric multiplication.

As philosophy says-when the "quantity" reaches a certain level, a "qualitative" change occurs. And 200,000 players is the tipping point for 4 supercomputers.

At present, there are only three supercomputers in the swordsman's love, not to mention the load of 200,000 players, even if it is to load the existing 170,000 players, it is a bit reluctant. Now, the essence of the swordsman's love and loyalty to serve the country must rush to add a supercomputer before many players start large-scale battle missions, otherwise the three supercomputers will definitely crash by then.

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However, adding supercomputers requires money in addition to time. Only four supercomputers can load 200,000 players. The average price of a supercomputer is now about 9 million US dollars, and four is 36 million US dollars, which is close to 300 million yuan. The hardware investment is as high as 300 million yuan, and the monthly rent, water and electricity, plus labor, the monthly additional expenditure is about 1.2 million yuan. This cost is too high.

According to Qiuxin's plan, the swordsman's love for the loyal to the country will adopt a point card fee system, similar to the legend, 35 yuan for 120 hours. In terms of conversion, one hour point card is approximately equal to 0.3 yuan. However, according to this charging standard, 200,000 players, with the current popularity of the swordsman's love and loyalty to serve the country, there is no problem in maintaining 200,000 full places online 24 hours.

Then the card charge for 1 player per day is 7.2 yuan, and 200,000 players will create a gross profit of 1.44 million for the "Second World" a day, and a gross profit of 43.2 million a month. Except for taxes and monthly fixed expenses, the net profit for about one month is more than 34 million.

But even with such amazing profits, it would take at least 10 months to recover the 300 million yuan hardware cost. But fortunately, the game life of the swordsman love loyalty to the country is definitely more than 10 months. But all this is just theoretical data, but it is a lot of trouble in practice.

First of all, the game setting of "Jian Xia Qing Yuan Zhi Zhong Serving the Country" canceled the setting of "adding blood and adding magic" in ordinary online games. Players are injured in the game, except that they can use gold sore medicine and other items to stop bleeding and treat trauma, and there is no medicine that can directly add blood. After all, this kind of medicine does not exist in the novel. In order to restore a real martial arts world, Qiu Xin also canceled this setting that can directly increase blood after imitating the novel.

The same is true for internal forces. The internal injury can be treated with medicine, but the player's internal strength is empty and can only slowly recover through "meditation" or automatic recovery.

Although this setting makes most players a little uncomfortable, it is very fresh and interesting. It also reduces the kind of drug-mad bosses. There is no technical content. It depends on the existence of players with more drugs. The essence of swordsman love is loyal to the country. In the past, more attention was paid to operability, and to a certain extent the influence of RMB players from disrupting the balance of the game was reduced.

However, correspondingly, there is a lot of time for players to "meditate" to restore their internal strength in the game. With Chinese players' madness in the game, card points can never meet the needs of players, and they will definitely call for the "Second World" to launch monthly cards. .

Although the "Second World" does not launch a monthly card, and the charm of swordsman love and loyalty to serve the country will force players to continue the game, Lam Fung's concept of managing the "Second World" is to build a game empire. If you want to build a game empire, you must have a large number of loyal players. This is also a disguised destiny for Lin Feng to not be as barbarous and rude as other online game companies for listing money, and then regardless of the player's interests, the game operation will change to continue to operate . It's great to be buried, and even the company name is changed.

This kind of hastily made games, hurriedly listed, and quickly "reversed" behavior is one of the fundamental reasons why there are few independent games in the domestic game market today. The "Second World" absolutely cannot take this path.

Therefore, if Lin Feng wants to take care of the interests of domestic game players, he will inevitably introduce monthly cards, and the price of monthly cards must not be too high, which directly affects the decline in profits. Another point is that large-scale assembly of supercomputers will inevitably sweep away a large amount of liquidity in the "Second World", which is also a hidden danger.

"Bruce, can you think of ways to increase the load capacity of the supercomputer?" Lin Feng asked expectantly.

"Boss, unless we develop our own supercomputer operating system, the performance will be improved by about 50%. After all, the supercomputer operating system we use now is based on the operating system I previously designed for an entertainment company. Adaptation is not suitable for the actual use of the company now." Bruce thought for a while and said.

"However, the owner of this operating system also knows that with our company's existing technical strength, we can't study it on our own, and can only hope that Kevin will steal data from other companies' supercomputers. But without being noticed, It takes time and patience." Bruce said, "Of course, there is a "Moore's Law" in the computer world. Computer performance will double every 18 months, and our server load will naturally double by then.

Lin Feng frowned and waited 18 months for the player's computer to be upgraded automatically. This obviously didn't know what Lin Feng wanted, and he said smugly after some thought.

"In this way, Bruce, you continue to assemble the supercomputer and try to improve the operating system. As for the player's hardware, I will find a way. The 18-month cycle of'Moore's Law' is too long. I want to change'Moore's Law'. The cycle." Lin Feng said slowly and firmly.

It seems that it is time to talk to several major computer hardware manufacturers in the industry. I used to have no strength, but now the popularity of the swordsman's love and loyalty to the country and the madness of the players, Lin Feng believes that the swordsman's love and loyalty can definitely bring players' demand for computer hardware performance. Driven by profits, Lin Feng does I believe these computer manufacturers will not be tempted.

Bruce was taken aback for a moment, wondering what Lin Feng could do to break "Moore's Law", but now he does his job first and assembles more supercomputers. Anyway, unlike personal computers, supercomputers will be eliminated so quickly.