Guan Yang finally understood what "Deep Blue" meant in Deep Blue Storage; Deep Blue was actually a metaphor for biological entities.
"We are a research-oriented company, don't we have profit requirements?"
"Do companies that conduct research on biological storage technology with Russia survive on government funding?"
"I need to know how much funding the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) gives us each year so I can prepare a recruitment plan."
"I've been working in the storage industry for many years and have been on the front lines of research and development, but I really don't know much about biological storage."
"In my understanding, this thing is still a long way from commercialization, and the country needs to be prepared for long-term investment."
"Back then, Yangtze Memory said it was prepared to invest for three years without making a profit, while DeepBlue Memory conservatively estimates it will take thirty years."
Guan Yang doesn't usually talk this much, but when he arrived in Yanjing to take over the work, and the R&D director told him that their main business was biological storage, he really couldn't hold back anymore.
Partnering with Da Mao to develop biological storage technology is somewhat ridiculous.
The presence of the Russians in the biological field is as weak as their presence in the semiconductor field.
Of course, many years ago, probably a hundred years ago, Russia's biology was quite advanced. As for now, a hundred years later, it's rare to see highly cited papers from them or highly cited biologists in contemporary biology and medical journals.
After R&D director Fei Hongbo and Guan Yang finished their long-winded explanation, it became clear that the other party was very pessimistic about the future of DeepBlue Storage.
He would have been very pessimistic if he hadn't been transferred from the research institute under the Bureau of Abnormal Affairs.
Fei Hongbo knew he had to reassure the new chairman, "We actually already have products that can be commercialized."
"What? There are already commercially available products?"
"Old Fei, you weren't the type to talk big back when we were at the research institute."
Fei Hongbo was Guan Yang's former colleague at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Although they were in different majors, they were good friends back then.
Fei Hongbo's recommendation was one of the reasons for choosing Guan Yang, though it was a very minor factor.
Then Guan Yang went to the industry, while Fei Hongbo stayed at the Chinese Academy of Sciences until he was transferred to a secret research institute.
Fei Hongbo said earnestly, "Old Guan, you know me. And if you want to see it, there's a biological storage server in the lab on the second floor. I can take you there."
Seeing how serious the other person was, Guan Yang asked, "It's not some kind of biological storage chip developed by America, with some data inside, but actually a purely laboratory product with an incredibly complex writing process, is it?"
Fei Hongbo cautioned, "A biological storage server is neither a chip nor a hard drive."
Guan Yang's curiosity was fully piqued, and he stood up: "Then what are we waiting for?"
After a long process of unlocking the door, the two arrived at the experimental area. The researchers there were all busy with their own tasks, seemingly oblivious to their presence.
What lay before Guan Yang and Fei Hongbo was a huge cube.
The back half of the cube is made of transparent glass, which contains water. There are flocculent substances floating in the water, somewhat like jellyfish, but not as regularly arranged.
One end of the flocculent material is fixed in a certain position.
The front half is a black signal writing device, responsible for reading and writing data from the fluffy organism at the back, while the front has various interfaces that can be directly connected to a switch, server, or personal computer.
Guan Yang crouched down as if searching for the hard drive, but there was a ventilation device in the transparent part behind him, so there was obviously no hard drive there.
He pinned his hopes on finding traces of the hard drive through the gaps in the black steel plate in front.
"Is this thing really a biological storage server?" Guan Yang asked, turning around after trying for a while without success.
"This is our biological storage server."
"The sample jointly developed with Huawei is currently using Huawei's most advanced Dorado memory chip and architecture."
"However, since this product framework is still designed for flash memory, we will subsequently optimize the storage chips and architecture specifically for biological storage technology."
Guan Yang roared, "How's the data? How does its performance compare to Huawei's all-flash products? What's the cost?"
Having read this far, Guan Yang no longer doubted the authenticity of the biological storage technology; he only wanted to know how difficult it would be to promote this technology on a large scale.
"Based on the current test data, the end-to-end latency is reduced by ten times compared to Huawei's all-flash products. As for stability, we have only just received the data and are still testing it."
Testing storage stability takes a relatively long time because it's not something that's prone to problems.
When enterprise-level storage servers encounter problems, it's a major issue, and stability requirements are always very high.
High-voltage testing over a period of time is required to determine its stability.
"However, based on current performance, its stability is no worse than that of all-flash products."
"The most important point is the data storage capacity. The effective storage capacity of this biological storage server alone, that is, the amount of data we can read and write at will, is 100PB, which is a thousand times higher than that of all-flash products."
"We don't know about the costs yet."
Regarding costs, we'll have to wait for the Bureau of Abnormal Events to set a price. Since it involves the manpower costs of mages, plus the fact that China invested 5 magic coins, the cost would be astronomical if we really wanted to calculate it.
"How long will it take to realize a personal product? Can personal computers be promoted on a large scale?" Guan Yang asked.
Fei Hongbo said directly, "It will take time, not now. And even if we achieve miniaturization technically, there will still be some problems."
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