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Chapter 412: Chapter 334 Blue Gene Supercomputer (Please subscribe!)_2
Du Jun wasn’t surprised that the person on the other end knew his name. He didn’t realize that his surveillance had been compromised. After all, quite a number of people in the field knew his name.
But he, seeing that the other party didn’t play by the usual rules,
Looked towards his superiors.
After some whispered discussions, they decided to move straight to the point.
They nodded towards Du Jun.
Du Jun quickly tapped a message on the keyboard: "No problem, let’s first discuss the final service that you mentioned last time. How about that?" The earlier leaders weren’t interested in money-making affairs. They had more complex concerns.
"Okay, let me first talk about the scope of our services. Firstly, our base price for break-ins is 5 million RMB. So, don’t bother us for trivial matters. Payment must be made up front and we’ll charge additional fees based on the ’value’ of the ’product’,
Secondly, we will definitely archive and view whatever we obtain. You won’t believe me if I say we don’t, so, if you think we don’t have the qualification to view the target of the task, then don’t assign it to us. Otherwise, our doubts will grow, which will be bad for everyone."
Third, we don’t like to haggle, but we also won’t overcharge. So don’t argue with us about our prices, as it’s related to the next point.
Fourth, we won’t pocket a single penny of this money. Along with the proceeds from the website, all will be donated to charity. I know that the state is now very strict with the management of charity foundations, so common people can’t easily set them up. Hence, I need you to establish a nationwide charity foundation for this fund. We will hire our own people to manage the foundation. You can’t have a say in HR matters but you can oversee the flow of all funds. Misappropriation of funds is not allowed. I will be very angry otherwise.
Fifth, I hope you will keep our cooperation a secret. Otherwise, if I find out, I can’t guarantee that you will be my only collaborators. After all, I don’t want to be poached by other countries."
Sixth, our website has finished testing, and starting tonight after twelve o’clock, the scope of its services will cover the whole country. Hence, from now on, the senders will not be us, but all mails will be sent to you, and you will assign tasks to local police stations.
That’s it for now, do you have any questions?"
Du Jun and others read the messages three times and looked at each other in disbelief.
Something seemed off.
Is this person planning to donate all this money to charity?
That was hard to believe.
But they had to believe it, this lie was too harmless. They couldn’t help but gain respect for the other party.
The other conditions were all quite normal, there’s nothing much, and it was a win-win for the Public Security Department too.
Regarding the business scope, there doesn’t seem to be any problem. The other party is just in the testing phase and the extent of their abilities isn’t known yet, of course they will not assign any highly classified tasks.
Seeing his superiors nod, Du Jun wrote: "We agree to your conditions, but this all depends on a basic premise, your abilities, please understand."
"Of course, it’s normal for you to have concerns. So, for our first cooperation, we will accept a task free of charge." said Tang Qing.
"All right, we won’t take advantage of you. Our center has the best local area network defense system in the country. In the core server of our center, there is a folder called ’Winter’, inside it is a string of numbers. The server won’t disconnect from the internet for the next day. If you can break in within a day and get that string of numbers, we can officially cooperate."
He hit ’Enter’ .
Now he was waiting for a response from the other party,
But the next second, a response arrived.
"72160."
Seeing these numbers, Du Jun was in sheer disbelief. He sprang out of his chair.
"He...he...he..." Du Jun couldn’t even utter a complete sentence, he was stammering uncontrollably.
The officer behind him, who knew about the numbers, looked horrified. This was a number he had just put in, three minutes ago. It was inserted through a physical connection to the server, and their computer had never been connected to the internet – wirelessly or through a cable.
Was it breached just like that?
The state had spent a fortune on this defense system and invited many industry insiders for testing. Is it gone just like that? This was a complete version. The previous version of the center’s defense system was tested by domestic and international hackers. It was breached only once. This was the most complete version, and it has just been connected to the internet. What happened in those few seconds? Were they cheating?
"Leader, what should we do?" This was beyond his jurisdiction.
This was too damn terrifying.
Was this a dream?
"Initiate the backup plan."
"Yes." After saying this, Du Jun quickly returned to his seat. 𝔫𝖔𝔳𝖕𝖚𝔟.𝔠𝔬𝖒
"We have seen your capabilities, can you take on the first task today?"
"Sure, send over the task description and our team will review it for delivery time." Tang Qing responded.
"We need an access account for the Blue Gene Supercomputer in the United States." Du Jun presses the enter key after typing these words.
Looking at this message.
Tang Qing, sitting in the command room, was unexpectedly taken aback by Du Jun’s first task.
Blue Gene is part of the ’Advanced Simulation and Computation Project’ launched by the United States Department of Energy. As of now, it is considered to have the top supercomputing power worldwide. It was built by IBM and is situated at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, under the National Nuclear Safety Administration of the Department of Energy in the United States.
Tang Qing frowned.
"Can we pull this off, Tang Yi?" Tang Qing asked.
"No problem, our globally networked device scanning and analysis software has a record of being able to successfully connect and breach. Additionally, it can provide stealthy computational services." Tang Yi replied.
"You’re saying even if we use it, we can still cover our tracks?" Tang Qing asked in surprise.
"Yes."
Tang Qing then asked: "So, compared to Little Two’s computing speed, how does this Blue Gene match up?"
"It’s garbage."
"..."
Tang Qing was speechless.
Alright, well, when compared to Little Two’s super-era existence, a supercomputer with wonderful computing power of over one hundred million billion times is indeed laughable. Still, Tang Qing doesn’t plan on directly selling Little Two’s computation abilities. It’s better to keep such good goods for oneself.
One minute.
Du Jun and his team anxiously waited for a moment, wondering if the task was too difficult?
Then a message came through.
Everyone quickly looked at it.
"No problem, deal. An account costs five million RMB. However, I’m not sure if you’ll be needing auxiliary services."
It can be done.
Du Jun was thrilled.
Auxiliary services?
What does that mean?
"What auxiliary services?" Du Jun asked.
"You aren’t asking for this access to play around or compute data for a confidential project. But, if you do need to compute something, we can help to cover your tracks to avoid getting your account banned. It’s not expensive, one million RMB per month, and we can ensure a computational service of thirty million billion times at any given moment." Answered Tang Qing, thirty million billion times is the limit, anything more might interrupt other services and risk exposure. But even if it’s not enough, Little Two can supplement it. That’s the final solution. The short term promise holds true anyway.
"Alright, no problem." Du Jun quickly agreed with directives.
This is an opportunity. If they can achieve long term benefits, they may as well take it up. Furthermore, domestic supercomputers can only reach a few million billion times computing power at most, ten times less compared to this. As research institutions in the country are facing computing resource shortages, it might be possible to ’borrow a bit’ of nonessential computational services.
One million per month is not expensive at all.
"Alright, we’ll deliver in an hour. Once testing is complete, you can pay the bill. We will assign a dedicated person for future collaborations. Just upload your task descriptions using this account. We can only accept one task per day at most as we’re too busy to handle more. Also, I hope you can meet my conditions by the end of the month. I’ll find all the necessary personnel, you’ll handle the rest. You can monitor the operation of the funds. So, anything else you need to say?"
Du Jun quickly responded: "Can you give this website a name to look like one of our official websites?"
"No problem."
PS: I might have another Chapter to write later. Good night everyone. I still have to keep writing, poor me. Could you vote for me before going to bed?
