Chapter 3743
The next generation database that Menghe mentioned is located in Phoenix Ridge north of Fort Victory. However, this place is quite secret. You have to take a carriage into the mountain first. After getting off, you have to walk a while before you can reach your destination.
Although there were not many armed guards along the way, Shi Diwen was sure that this place was not something that ordinary people could reach. Because this big database is actually located in a cave, and a circle of high walls is built a hundred feet outside the cave, which isolates it from the outside world.
"This cave was reported to us by the Li people in the early years. Originally, the Executive Committee wanted to use it as a shelter in a special period, but in fact it never came to use. Later, when the plan to back up the large database was formulated, it chose this place to store information and use it as a database for the next generation."
Meng He led the way while introducing the situation here to Shi Diwen.
The environment in the cave has obviously been manually trimmed, not only is the flat road surface paved to the depths, but there are also several parallel pipes installed on the cave walls.
Shi Diwen estimated that there were ventilation pipes and water pipes that transport fire water sources. After all, there are a large amount of paper documents in the storage area of the information deep in the cave, and once there is a fire, it needs to be put out immediately.
Shi Diwen guessed that there should be a communication cable directly to Fort Victory, so that the outside world can use a wired telephone to issue instructions to query information here.
While talking, the two of them had already arrived at the depths of the cave. The temperature here was obviously lower than that in the outside world, but the inside of the cave was not damp at all. Shi Diwen even felt that the air was drier than outside.
Menghe immediately confirmed his feeling: "The natural humidity here is nearly half lower than outside the cave. In addition, we have used a lot of ventilation and dehumidification methods, so the air is drier, making it easier to preserve paper documents for a long time."
When I walked to a hundred feet deep, I suddenly realized that there was a huge space of dozens of feet in radius.
However, this natural space has been separated by the brick walls of the back into several small spaces, with passages connected between them. A steel fire door was installed at the entrance to each small space. It seems that when building this place, I did spend a lot of effort on fire protection measures.
Menghe continued to introduce: "Every small space here is equivalent to a small database. We copy and backup information and store it in categories. You see, this is where the data directory is stored."
What appeared in front of Menghe were rows of tall bookshelf, all made of iron, which not only had excellent load-bearing capacity, but also minimized the possibility of fire.
Shi Diwen roughly counted that at least hundreds of neatly bound document books were placed on each bookshelves. Each document book was a directory, corresponding to documents stored in a certain space in the cave.
And there were dozens of such bookshelfs in his sight, just like a small library. Several staff members walked through the process, picking up the document books on the shelf and adding a few more strokes from time to time. It seems that they are constantly improving the directory here.
Seeing this, Shi Diwen asked how the process of checking the documents was carried out.
Menghe explained: "The principle is actually similar to the previous computer server. After receiving external information search instructions here, you will first look up the location of the relevant documents from the directory, then retrieve the files, excerpt the required content, and then send them to the place where the instructions are issued by a dedicated person."
"Of course, this process that relies on full manual operation will be much slower than before using computers, and the query efficiency cannot be compared. But it is better to use it than not to use it, right?" Shi Diwen had to admit that Meng He said it makes sense. Although this way of querying information seems very primitive and inefficient to the eyes of those who travel through time, the various materials stored here are so valuable that they are incalculable in the current era. Even if the process takes a lot of time, it will not have much impact on the value of this information.
However, he immediately thought of a question: "The Executive Committee has moved to Hangzhou now. If the instructions issued not only query information, but also need to call the drawing materials here, it will not be sent to Hangzhou via telegram, so it can only be transmitted manually?"
Menghe nodded and said, "At this stage, we can only solve the problem in this way. There is no way to do it if it is slow. However, we already have other solutions, but it will take some time to implement it."
Shi Diwen immediately asked what the new solution was. He thought that Menghe's solution would either restart the traditional method of 800 miles of urgent transmission, or wait for the airport to be built in the future and transmit documents through aircraft between the two places, but Menghe's answer was beyond his expectations.
Meng He's answer is actually not novel at all, that is, to build another backup database in Hangzhou to facilitate the use of the Executive Committee nearby.
This solution seems simple and crude, but thinking about it carefully is the best solution that can be achieved at the moment. This not only solves the problem of timeliness of information transmission, but also takes into account the actual situation that the large database can no longer be relocated to Hangzhou thousands of miles away.
Meng He said: "It's still a little late to move the capital in Hangzhou. If it were more than ten years earlier, it might be possible to move all the servers in Fort Victory. But now, let alone relocate, you won't even dare to unplug it. God knows whether those servers can be lit up after power outages, and the Executive Committee would not dare to take this risk."
Shi Diwen coughed dryly and said, "More than ten years ago, we hadn't taken Hangzhou yet, so why did we move to Hangzhou... By the way, why didn't we transport the database in this cave directly to Hangzhou?"
Meng He glared and said, "Don't underestimate this place. In order to meet the environmental standards for storing documents, the cave was completed for several years. I ask you, is there any ready-made place available in Hangzhou?"
Shi Diwen was speechless for a moment. There was indeed no ready-made place in Hangzhou to be used to install such a large paper database. One must be built according to the standards of this cave, and it is estimated that it will take two or three years to complete it.
Meng He continued: "It is not enough to backup important data once. At least double backup is necessary to be safe. In the future, one copy in Sanya and one copy in Hangzhou, and that's fine."
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Shi Diwen thought to himself that the backup database was implemented in Hangzhou, we should mention it to the Executive Committee again and urge the project to be implemented as soon as possible. Otherwise, after the large database of Victory Fort ends, the efficiency of querying information will probably be unbearably slow.
After visiting, Shi Diwen also gave Meng a serious congratulations.
Meng He waved his hand and said, "I'm actually fine, I'm just giving orders. The real hard work is the people below who are doing things. Since they entered this department, they have been basically isolated from the world. If possible, I hope the Executive Committee will give them a raise salary and a raise of their benefits."
Mengheti's request was not too much, and Shi Diwen immediately agreed.
Contacting the big database means getting in touch with Hai Han’s most core secrets, and the confidentiality level of these staff members is undoubtedly quite high.
In order to strictly observe state secrets, they will no longer have too many opportunities to contact the outside world in their lives, and they will not be able to make a name for themselves and become famous all over the world. Even when you are with your family, you must strictly observe confidentiality discipline and not mention your work at all until the moment you take your last breath.