Xu Qianshi is not the only one who is not optimistic about Yunmeng Games. Almost no one in the entire industry thinks that Yunmeng Games can win against the serious Sea Lion.
However, just when the entire industry's attention was focused on Yunmeng Group, Mr. Hao of Yunmeng Group was not at all panicked, and even leisurely visited Yunmeng Technology's research institute.
Of course, the reason why he came here was not really for being a guest, but for the supercomputer that he had discussed with Li Zongzheng before.
According to the director of the Brain-Computer Interface Research Institute, as the AI intelligent systems running on World of Warcraft servers continue to grow, the computing power required is also expanding geometrically.
In order to give players a better gaming experience, Hao Yun plans to adopt Wu Fan’s advice and configure a supercomputer for World of Warcraft.
Fortunately, the Xia Kingdom in this life is the most powerful country in the People's Federation, and its strength in the electronics industry is more than one level stronger than the world before Hao Yun traveled through.
As long as the money is in place, all problems are not a problem.
"This is Professor Chen Mingdong."
In the reception room of the Yunmeng Institute of Science and Technology, Hao Yun met Professor Chen Mingdong from the Xiaguo Academy of Engineering under the introduction of Wu Fan. As a leading figure in the field of computer science research in China, Professor Chen is not only a master in the academic field, but also an experienced engineer in practice.
He participated in the design of two of the top ten supercomputers in Xia Kingdom.
"Hello, Professor Chen!"
"You must be Hao Yun! I've heard of you," Professor Chen held Hao Yun's extended right hand and shook it. He smiled and continued, "Your magic touch in the Hope Cup Programming Competition has made me a lot better." My old friends were all shocked! I still haven’t figured out how you calculated that number at that time. We had to use a supercomputer for a long time to calculate your result."
Hao Yun coughed slightly and said.
"Do you believe it when I say it's luck?"
Professor Chen smiled and said.
"That's right! Let's not mention these old things. I heard that you are planning to build a supercomputer?"
Hao Yun nodded and said.
"Is such that."
"I already know the general situation from your Director Wu, but he hasn't told me the details yet. I don't know if it's convenient to ask, what do you plan to use it for?"
Regarding Professor Chen's doubts, Hao Yun did not hide anything and told the truth.
"We plan to use this supercomputer as a server for our new game."
"Server, server?" Professor Chen was stunned and looked at Hao Yun in confusion. It took him a while to recover from the surprise and then said, "What kind of game... requires such a huge computing power."
If it was for mining or some special experiment, he would understand.
However, as a game server...
He had never heard of such a bizarre thing.
As if he had guessed that Professor Chen would be surprised, Wu Fan, who was standing aside, patiently explained.
"Due to the need for research and development of brain-computer interface technology, we have developed an artificial intelligence system with self-improvement and learning capabilities. The game Mr. Hao mentioned is the necessary way for him to collect the data he needs."
"Improving artificial intelligence through games? This sounds like a very interesting idea... Okay, I understand the situation. Can I ask what your budget is?"
Regarding this issue, to be honest, Hao Yun had no idea. After all, he had never bought anything so expensive either in this life or in his previous life.
Turning his questioning gaze to Wu Fan, Hao Yun originally planned to ask for his opinion to make a decision, but unexpectedly the latter looked away subtly.
no way.
I can only quote the price casually first.
After some tangle, Hao Yun tentatively stretched out an index finger and spoke.
"Is one hundred million enough?"
There was an unexpected silence in the room for a while.
What finally broke the silence was Professor Chen's cough.
"One hundred million. Add a zero... It shouldn't be a problem to build a smaller one."
Hearing these words, Hao Yun almost spit out a mouthful of blood.
"How much?! One billion?!"
"One billion is actually quite normal. You know the newly built Galaxy Light, which cost 4.7 billion RMB..." Wu Fan said with an embarrassed look, "But I heard that big guys like building supercomputers can apply for it. A special loan for high-tech research and development established by the state. As for the use after it is built... there should be no regulations, at least not in my mind."
Hao Yun: "..."
All right.
Sure enough, he kept it simple...
…
Although the cost of supercomputing is a bit expensive, there are reasons for being expensive.
After some struggle, Hao Yun finally made up his mind to build this supercomputing center even if it was a loan.
After all, as Wu Fan said to him before, considering the future of virtual reality networks, supercomputing will have to be built sooner or later. This is not only for the game World of Warcraft, but also for the broad future of Yunmeng Group...
Just when Hao Yun endured the pain and signed the loan agreement, "Endless Epic", a subsidiary of Sea Lion Group, finally came to the day when the public beta version was officially launched after a week-long pre-release warm-up.
Yes.
There is no closed beta.
In order to get ahead of the beta version of World of Warcraft and cut off the huge traffic of World of Warcraft, "Endless Epic" directly skipped the closed beta stage and went directly to the public beta.
As usual, Say Ye went online at six o'clock in the evening and started today's live broadcast.
However, what surprised the viewers in the live broadcast room was that today Say did not go straight to Stormwind City in Azeroth as usual, but opened a different game.
"Today I bring you a new MMORPG game. It's called "Endless Epic" and is made by Sea Lion Group. I don't know if it's fun or not. I just downloaded the game... "
The words haven't finished yet.
The barrage in the live broadcast room has filled the screen.
[? ? ?]
[Why doesn’t the anchor stop broadcasting World of Warcraft?]
[I smell the PY transaction.]
[Say Ye: Sorry, it gives too much!]
[Hahaha! So true.]
Seeing the barrage in the live broadcast room, Say Ye didn't feel any embarrassment.
After all, this is not the first time he has taken on the job of making a meal. Most of the water friends in the live broadcast room understand it, and fans who have just followed him will be surprised.
In fact, he didn't want to ignore the popularity of World of Warcraft and go broadcast a less popular online game. However, as the audience in the live broadcast room said, the Sea Lion Group gave so much that he simply could not refuse.
What's more, Hiace Group doesn't have many requirements. It only needs to broadcast for four hours a day to fulfill the contract.
The broadcast time of Say Night is at six o'clock in the evening every day, and it will be broadcast until two o'clock in the morning. In other words, it was only ten o'clock in the evening after four hours of broadcasting. It was okay to continue playing World of Warcraft and it would not delay his progress.
Therefore, even though there were many controversies surrounding this game, after some careful consideration, Say Ye finally chose to take on the job.
Faced with the rhythm in the live broadcast room, Say dealt with it skillfully.
"Some water friends in the live broadcast room have already guessed it. Ahem, I won't go into too much detail here. We will continue to broadcast the previous content after ten o'clock. Before that, I hope everyone can wait patiently. "
As he spoke, he cleared his throat, quickly got into the mood, and shouted at the live broadcast room.
"Okay, dear audience friends, let's stop talking here."
"Anyway, let's first take a look at how this epic masterpiece, which is said to have cost hundreds of millions of yuan and took two and a half years to create, is doing!"