Chapter 357 The Cloud is the Future

It's a new year.

All major colleges and universities are on vacation one after another.

On the Beike campus, in the white snow world, the bustling students all pulled their suitcases and embarked on the journey home.

After all, part-time jobs are a minority.

It's winter vacation again, and the Spring Festival is at the end of the month, and almost no students will choose to stay in school for the Spring Festival. Times are very different from ten or twenty years ago.

Today, the student activity center is quite lively.

Feng Xingguang, a senior student in the Department of Computer Science of the National People's University and a member of the member purchase project team, came to Beike with full confidence, and was about to report on an important project in his life.

Last night, he received an email from Guo Pengfei, telling him that this online diary project has been highly recognized, and Zhou Buqi even named it "Midian Notes" himself.

In fact, this is just a small project.

The difficulty is creativity, and the operation is very simple.

It's a castrated version of email.

Today's e-mail boxes generally have a capacity of 3M or 5M, storing tens of thousands of emails. If you need a larger capacity mailbox, you need to pay. Business people like Zhou Buqi who need to process thousands of emails a day must purchase mailbox services.

Moreover, the mailbox needs to have sending and receiving functions.

Micro-notes do not need it, as long as it is written and synchronized, the research and development difficulty is only 10% of that of e-mail.

But even so, Zhou Buqi also attached great importance to this project, and even called Zhang Yiming and Ji Zian over to listen to Feng Xingguang's report on the "Micro Notes" project.

The four most powerful people of Ziweixing Technology, Zhou Buqi, Guo Pengfei, Zhang Yiming and Ji Zian all appeared, and the scene was grand. Not to mention Feng Xingguang, even the few of them were a little baffled.

I don't know how such a small project can bring them together?

The PPT made 93 pages, and it took 10 minutes to start the first 5 pages.

Reporting experience is clearly insufficient.

Guo Pengfei frowned and said, "Student Feng Xingguang, you don't need to talk about the scene, and you don't need to go into too much detail. Just explain the general idea, architectural logic, and what functions you will use in designing this product. Focus on the key points. "

Zhang Yiming smiled, "Just state what you think is important."

Feng Xingguang was a little embarrassed, and the subsequent reporting process was indeed much faster.

During this period, Guo Pengfei, Ji Zian, Zhang Yiming, Zhou Buqi and others all wrote and drew with pens, recorded something, and listened carefully.

After half an hour, the report was over.

Everyone put forward some doubts, ideas and suggestions of their own, which enriched the product framework.

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "This idea is quite good, and it can meet the learning needs of college students. This project can be called Weidian Notes. If you are asked to lead a team in charge of this project, can you make it?"

Feng Xingguang, who had just sat down, immediately stood up again, and said excitedly: "Give me two people, one server, and we can make it before the Spring Festival!"

Zhou Buqi said: "Let's do it first, report to Guo Pengfei before the festival, and make the first version. After the festival, make test adjustments and connect with Dongfang Weidian."

Both Guo Pengfei and Ji Zi'an nodded.

This project is sorted out.

There was no difficulty at all.

However, what Zhou Buqi wants to say next is the core point.

"Student Feng Xingguang, you can go back to school to organize a team. In addition to the basic salary, Xiaonei will give you a special approval of 10,000 yuan as operating expenses. I hope you will not let everyone down."

"I promise!"

Feng Xingguang came excitedly and left excitedly.

I feel that my career path is stable. There is no need to participate in any school recruitment anymore, I will work at Ziweixing from now on! Follow Xiaonei, follow Dongfang Weidian, and make a great cause!

After sending Feng Xingguang away, Zhou Buqi got up, walked to the whiteboard, erased the written content on it, turned around and said seriously: "What I want to talk about today is the top secret of Ziweixing Technology. The strategic development plan for the next ten years. Don’t tell anyone except us, including Wang Haoyang.”

Zhang Yiming, Ji Zian and Guo Pengfei glanced at each other and nodded.

really!

Everyone gathered here today, not just as simple as taking notes.

Zhou Buqi pointed at Guo Pengfei, "I told you about cloud computing a long time ago, so let's popularize it first. What is cloud computing?"

Guo Pengfei pondered for a while, and said slowly: "Cloud computing... This idea should have been around 20 years ago, mainly referring to network computers. Today's personal computers are equipped with their own CPUs, and their performance is not high, so Can only run some basic program processing. If through the Internet, connect the local computer with the cloud... that is, the server terminal, let the cloud server perform more efficient and larger-scale calculations, and then feed back the data results to the local computer In the middle, you can solve very large local problems. Generally speaking, cloud computing is ultra-large-scale computing placed on the cloud.”

Ji Zian asked: "I don't know much, let me ask... Once all the personal computers are connected together, it is necessary to process the computing requests of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of personal computers at the same time, how big is that? Scale? Need a supercomputer?"

Guo Pengfei glanced at Zhou Buqi and shook his head: "According to the past thinking, it is indeed the case. However, in 2003, Google scientists published several important papers, formally proposing the feasibility architecture of cloud computing. According to distributed processing, parallel processing and network computing, etc., the huge computing processing program is automatically split into countless smaller subroutines through the network. Then it is handed over to a huge system composed of multiple servers for computing processing. This is Cloud computing. Through this technology, the cloud can process tens of millions or even billions of information in a few seconds, and achieve the same powerful network service as a 'supercomputer', but the cost is greatly reduced."

Ji Zi'an took a deep breath.

His complexion changed slightly.

Subconsciously asked: "Did Google do it?"

"No."

Guo Pengfei shook his head.

Ji Zian didn't know what to say.

Among the current Internet companies in the world, Google has the best technology. Even Google didn't do cloud computing, how difficult is this technology?

We, a small company that has only been established for more than a year, are we going to try areas that even Google has not set foot in?

Didn't he get dazzled by the victory?

Zhang Yiming immediately had an association, his heart was shocked, and he couldn't help but said: "We are cooperating with Microsoft Research, and the data processing system we are developing will involve massive amounts of data... Is this a pavement for cloud computing?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Not only that, we sent people to Wangsu Technology to learn the establishment of distributed edge servers and CDN technology for this purpose."

"hiss!"

Zhang Yiming also took a deep breath.

It feels like a big, empty fantasy bubble appears above my head... There may be a bright light of the future in it, or it may be a dark light of the present.

This goal is too big!

Correspondingly, the risk is too great.

Zhou Buqi said in a deep voice: "The Internet was born in the United States, and Internet technology was also born in the United States. Although our country claims to be the second largest country in the Internet after the United States, it is actually as thin as paper. Except for Baidu, any An Internet company does not have core technology. How do you say Ziweixing in English? Emperor Star! It’s Emperor Star! We are the Emperor Star of the Chinese Internet, so we must master the most core things. I judge that cloud computing is the future.”

"The technical requirements are too high." Zhang Yiming's face was very heavy.

Zhou Buqi said: "Of course, it is because the requirements are too high and the task is too difficult, so I have to tell you early. Excellent people must develop a habit, which is to think deeply. Whether it is foreign or domestic, excellent People are the same. Every day, they think deeply about a question that they continue to think about, or think deeply about something they have no answer to. For me, this question is technology, the core technology! And my choice is cloud computing. Now, I leave this question to you as well. Let’s think together. Of course, it’s not just cloud computing. The cloud will be an important part of the future Internet, just like a public large computer connected to the whole world . Cloud computing is the processor of this computer.”

Guo Pengfei has been with him for the longest time, and he can understand his thinking best. He understood immediately, and blurted out: "In addition to the processor, there is also a hard disk! Personal computer data can be processed by the cloud, of course, it can also be stored by the cloud. .Just like micro-notes, the notes written by individuals are not stored in the local computer, but stored in the cloud...that is, in the terminal server, thus improving the user experience."

Ji Zian and Zhang Yiming suddenly realized.

No wonder Boss Zhou brought everyone together today. It turns out that micro-point notes also have such an important role with profound potential significance.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Yes, the current technical and equipment conditions are limited, so Weidian Note can only provide users with a small amount of storage space. In the future... it will be able to provide users with tens of terabytes of storage Space. To this end, I propose a new concept called cloud storage.”

"Cloud storage..."

Zhang Yiming took a long breath and felt some trouble on his back, not because he was afraid, but because he was excited. It's like when Yu Boya met Zhong Ziqi, there was a feeling that a scholar would die for his confidant.

Regardless of whether cloud computing and cloud storage can be made or not, such a long-term goal is the true display of the value of life.

Guo Pengfei said: "Amazon's direction is also very good. They want to provide cloud services for small companies. Small companies don't need to purchase IOE equipment to build their own websites. They can directly process, store and manage data in the cloud. Oracle criticized every day, But I think Oracle’s approach is something from a previous era.”

"Of course, the cloud is the future of the Internet!" Zhou Buqi glanced at the dizzy Ji Zian, and said with a smile, "How big is the installation package for Micropoint Antivirus?"

"More than 400 M."

"Start up and run, isn't it very slow?"

Ji Zian nodded, "It can't be helped, all anti-virus software is like this."

Zhou Buqi shook his head: "Others are lagging behind, but we cannot lag behind. The installation package of anti-virus software is large, because the anti-virus program needs to be loaded into it, so that users can anti-virus locally. However, the cloud is the future, including cloud security."

"Cloud security?"

"Yes, put the antivirus program on the cloud, and only encapsulate some software interface, skin and personal information on the local side, that is, an installation package of about 5M. When using it, use the antivirus program in the cloud to complete computer scanning. It can greatly Reduce the size of the antivirus software, so that the operation of the personal computer will be smoother."

"this……"

Ji Zian murmured, distracted, feeling like he saw a new world.