183: Chapter 183 Distributed Breakthrough: The Dragon Kingdom's First Space Fortress!

Alien civilization voyage timing, Day 87.

9:42 AM, Pangu Laboratory, Level B2.

A red alert box hung in the bottom right corner of the main screen.

Zhao Mingyuan dragged that error log to his secondary screen, flipped through it twice, and slid his chair back half a meter.

"If a single command hub can't handle it, then don't use a single point."

Su Che was already typing on the keyboard.

"Distributed."

He pulled up the three redundant layout plans finalized by Academician Li Zhengyang this morning, laying out the hardware topology diagrams of the three physical nodes side-by-side on the screen.

The original design logic was one main and two backups; the main control room made decisions, and the backup nodes only took over when the main control was destroyed.

Now it had to be changed.

Three nodes online simultaneously, collaboratively sharing the concurrent decision-making load.

If any node goes down, the remaining two take over seamlessly, with zero switching latency.

"main god ai, redistribute the computing power weights for the three nodes."

Su Che issued the command, "Node 1 focuses on situational awareness fusion, Node 2 runs collaborative decision-making, and Node 3 handles weapon fire control and communication scheduling."

The computing power occupancy rate of the Sub-nanometer chip jumped.

Three seconds later, main god ai generated an initial allocation plan.

Su Che scanned it once.

"Incorrect." He deleted one of the weight coefficients, "The data volume for situational awareness is seven times that of fire control; computing power cannot be evenly divided."

"Then allocate dynamically." Zhao Mingyuan slid back to his workstation, his fingers falling onto the keyboard, "Whoever is busy eats more, whoever is idle lets it go. Write a load balancing scheduler; the three nodes will share a computing power pool."

Su Che glanced at him.

"You write it."

Zhao Mingyuan was already typing.

Academician Qian Zhenhua turned over from the equipment rack, clutching a piece of shielded wire.

"If the distributed architecture is changed, the radar data access interface must be changed accordingly."

He threw the wire into the scrap bin, "It used to go through a single channel to the main control, but now all three nodes need to consume radar data, so I have to split the interface into three parallel paths."

"Split it." Su Che agreed immediately.

Academician Qian Zhenhua turned back to the equipment rack and squatted down to dismantle the interface board.

The east side of the hall went quiet.

After all seven tasks for the Lunar Development Base were cleared, Liu Huaqiang's team was incorporated into the command system's assault sequence in its entirety.

Zhou Dehai rushed back from Kaitian Base two days ago, bringing a box of radio frequency module samples fresh off the Zhulong Production Line.

He was now hunched over the workstation in the U-shaped array area, holding an oscilloscope probe and poking at a communication core board.

"The radio frequency front-end gain of the space-based communication network is insufficient." Zhou Dehai wrinkled his nose at the oscilloscope screen, "The background noise in deep space is two orders of magnitude higher than in low-Earth orbit, and the signal-to-noise ratio is three dB worse."

Today, Pangu Laboratory had two more people: Academician Sun Qiwen and Academician Zhang Weide, who had rushed over from Jiuquan Launch Base and Wenchang Launch Base, respectively.

Academician Sun Qiwen walked out of the storage area carrying a cup of cool boiled water and passed Zhou Dehai's workstation.

"Change to gallium nitride power amplifier tubes." He stopped to take a sip of water, "The thermal efficiency is 40% higher than gallium arsenide, and the noise figure is one dB lower."

"Gallium nitride's heat dissipation is more troublesome." Zhou Dehai didn't look up.

"I'll handle the heat dissipation." Academician Sun Qiwen placed his cup on the adjacent folding table, "Micro-channel liquid cooling plate, copper substrate, I'll produce the drawings today."

"Fine." Zhou Dehai changed the probe.

Academician Zhang Weide's voice came from the innermost part of the U-shaped array.

"If the three-node distributed layout is changed, the load-bearing truss node stress inside the cabin must be recalculated."

He walked out holding an engineering calculator and a stack of manuscript paper, "With three command hubs operating simultaneously, the vibration spectrum superimposes, and the truss resonance points will shift."

"How much does it shift?" Wen Bo squatted nearby, holding an enamel mug.

"I have to run finite element analysis." Academician Zhang Weide stuffed the calculator back into his pocket, "Give me a day."

"Go use the Pangu Quantum Computer over there to run it." Liu Huaqiang pointed towards the main console with a mechanical pencil, "Hand calculations will take forever."

Academician Zhang Weide walked away with the manuscripts.

The entire B2 level was like a precision instrument; everyone was a gear, each spinning its own way, but meshing seamlessly.

Su Che was in front of the main console, beginning to rewrite the top-level code for the distributed command architecture.

Lin Waner entered through the side door, put down a bag of sliced apples and a bottle of mineral water, and turned to leave.

The apples were placed on the corner of the table, and the mineral water was placed to the right of the keyboard.

Su Che took a piece of apple and put it in his mouth, his fingers never leaving the keyboard.

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Alien civilization voyage timing, Day 89.

Zhao Mingyuan pushed the final version of the load balancing scheduler into the encrypted vault.

"Three-node dynamic load balancing, ran four hundred concurrent stress tests."

He leaned back in his chair, picked up a can of room-temperature cola from the table, and took a gulp, "The peak concurrency capacity ceiling is six times higher than the single-point architecture."

Su Che merged the scheduler into the main framework of the command and control system.

The red alert box disappeared.

"Distributed architecture finalized." Su Che noted at the end of the document.

Academician Zhang Weide walked back from the Pangu Quantum Computer area, carrying a stack of printed paper.

"Finite element analysis is complete." He slapped the paper onto the console, "The truss resonance frequency shifted by 0.3 Hz; it's within the safety envelope, no need to change the structure."

Su Che flipped a page, looked at the conclusion, and closed it.

"Archive it, send it to Zhou Dehai for production scheduling."

The image in the center of the monitoring wall refreshed.

In the site selection area of the Lunar Development Base, a cluster of fifty robots moved in an orderly fashion on the gray lunar soil.

The shell of the energy station pile had completely closed, and the lunar bricks produced by the building material molding machine were neatly stacked at the edge of the construction area.

A frame-structured building was taking shape in the shadow of the crater.

The research and development progress bar of the command and control system had passed 30%.

The final assembly of the 100,000-ton-class luan bird was advancing simultaneously in the Dry Dock, and the pipelines of the energy system had already been embedded in half of the main skeleton frames.

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Alien civilization voyage timing, Day 90.

2:00 PM.

Lieutenant General Peng Zhenbang's dedicated line connected.

But this time, it wasn't just Lieutenant General Peng Zhenbang's voice on the other end of the communication.

General General Shen Wangchuan's voice was also there.

"Chief Engineer Su." General General Shen Wangchuan's tone was deeper and more concise than Lieutenant General Peng Zhenbang's, "The Near-Earth Orbit Base is fully completed. We just finished the final full-system joint debugging."

Su Che paused the cursor on the current line of the code repository.

He looked up at the monitoring wall.

The image in the bottom left corner switched to a panoramic view of the Near-Earth Orbit Base.

400 kilometers above.

The control cabin, energy cabin, and life support cabin were integrated.

The Quantum Communication antenna array was deployed into a fan shape, and solar panels covered the sun-facing side of the base shell.

All indicator lights, from the core cabin to the terminal passage, were shining green in rows.

"The life support system is operating at full capacity, with air circulation, water circulation, and waste treatment all meeting the standards."

Lieutenant General Peng Zhenbang's voice followed, "The Controlled Nuclear Fusion micro-reactor in the energy cabin is outputting stably, and the energy storage redundancy meets the base's independent operation for six months."

"The Quantum Communication measurement and control network covers the entire area, and the three-way links with the ground, the Dry Dock, and the lunar base have all been established."

Su Che picked up the mineral water on the table, unscrewed it, and took a sip.

"What about the personnel stationing arrangements for the base?" Su Che asked.

"The first batch of thirty-two astronauts and engineers have completed zero-gravity adaptation training and will board the verification ship tomorrow."

General General Shen Wangchuan's voice had no superfluous decoration, "The base docking port can accommodate two verification ships and three cargo spacecraft at the same time."

Su Che put down the water bottle.

The Dragon Kingdom possessed its first permanent space fortress in near-Earth orbit.

It was not a temporary space station, nor a spliced structure of several dozen tons of cabin segments.

It was a complete, self-sufficient, industrial-capable space base.

Zhao Mingyuan poked his head over from the adjacent workstation to look at the monitor screen.

"This thing..." Zhao Mingyuan chewed half a biscuit, mumbled half a sentence, and swallowed it.

People on the east side of the hall also looked up.

Liu Huaqiang took off his black-rimmed glasses, wiped them for two seconds, and put them back on.

Wen Bo placed the enamel mug in his hand on the table without picking it up.

The clasp of Academician Li Zhengyang's thermos made a click sound as it was tightened.

Zhou Dehai pulled the oscilloscope probe from the circuit board and plugged it back into the holder.

Academician Sun Qiwen stood by the folding table with his cool boiled water, watching the monitoring wall, and took a big sip.

Academician Zhang Weide put the engineering calculator in his hand into his chest pocket and zipped it up.

No one applauded, no one shouted slogans.

These people had been grinding in the laboratory for too long and knew the weight behind every single screw.

Su Che hung up the communication.

He turned back to the main screen.

The code repository of the command and control system waited quietly at the line where the cursor was flashing.

The completion of the Near-Earth Orbit Base meant that the assembly of the luan bird had a stable logistics hub.

Personnel, materials, and test equipment could be directly deployed from the base into the Dry Dock, no longer requiring every batch to be launched from the ground.

Efficiency would rise another notch.

But the core of the command and control system, that "Advanced Aerospace Combat Intelligent Decision Technology" module, had only just scratched the surface of the distributed architecture.

The real hard nut had yet to be cracked.

Su Che's hand fell back onto the keyboard.

The next line of code was typed.

In the image on the right side of the monitoring wall, the interior of the Dry Dock was brightly lit.

The luan bird's main skeleton swallowed another batch of silver-gray cabin segment components, and the micro-tube network of the self-repair module extended from the welding point.

This steel beast was growing muscles bit by bit.

And its neural network was still growing line by line on Su Che's screen.