"Let's talk about the problems we have. This problem is not only related to Bomi's current industry, but also closely related to mobile phones.

As we all know, we now have a lot of servers around the world.

I'll do a rough count and you can see."

Cao Yang clicked on PPT and jumped to the page of the number of Bomi servers.

"So far, the number of users operating QQ server services is about 200 million, and QQ related value-added services... The number of servers laid out is as high as 40,000.

Then there are Three Kingdoms online, 345 servers.

Dance troupe, 541 units.

World of Warcraft, 1256 units, this is the number of servers worldwide

Fantasy Westward Journey, the seven heroes compete for the hegemony..."

Cao Yang roughly mentioned the number of servers that Bomi Company has purchased, "The core problem is that the busy period and idle difference between our servers is quite large.

For example, during the day, everyone goes to work, and there is no condition to chat on QQ at work. So, among the 40,000 servers, less than 5,000 servers are needed to meet the needs of the daytime period.

And at night, or during winter and summer vacations, 5,000 servers are not enough, and it needs to be increased to 40,000.

This brings up a big problem—

In the peak period that users need, we should indeed accompany so many servers, but in the peak period, our idle servers cause great waste.

The same is true for online games. The number of people in Three Kingdoms Online was large at the beginning, and the online peak exceeded 1 million, so we needed so many servers to support it. However, with the development of time, the number of users may decline, so we don’t need so many servers, as the previous servers were wasted.

We can indeed transfer idle servers to other games for use, but with the arrival of winter and summer vacation, the game may enter the next peak again, and we have to buy it again at this time.

Do you understand what I mean?"

"Well... it's true..." Liu Guangran nodded. This problem actually existed all the time, but no one had specifically raised it before, and Bomi's funds have always been quite abundant, so everyone didn't say anything about wasting resources.

The most important thing is that you cannot say that resources are wasted, because you have to evaluate the number of servers according to the maximum peak, otherwise you will be waiting in line or the server will be down due to insufficient load capacity.

This problem is not easy to solve.

"Maybe this question is a bit difficult. I'll show you a video and you may find some answers in it." Cao Yang said with a smile.

Then he opened the folder and played a video that had been prepared long ago.

This video was a speech delivered by Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the search engine conference on August 9, 2006.

The concept of "cloud computing" was proposed for the first time.

What does this concept mean? It is the issues mentioned by Cao Yang just now.

In this video, Eric Schmidt proposed cloud computing, which is a type of distributed computing, which refers to decomposing huge data computing processing programs into countless mini programs through the network "cloud", and then processing and analyzing these mini programs through a system composed of multiple servers to obtain the results and return them to the user.

In the early days of cloud computing, simply put, it was simply distributed computing, solving task distribution, and merging calculation results.

Therefore, cloud computing is also called grid computing. Through this technology, tens of thousands of data can be processed in a very short time, thereby achieving powerful network services.

However, Google proposed that it was not yet commercialized. They proposed that it was just to enable universities to better use computers in laboratories to complete large-scale computing, which is a technology that is more scientific and research-oriented.

After all, when this technology was born, no one thought about how to use it for commercial use and how to make money with cloud computing.

It was not until later that Alibaba completed the ultra-large-scale concurrent computing of Double 11 through Alibaba Cloud, and solved hundreds of millions of real-time transactions in a short period of time. Only then did everyone have some clear concepts about the application prospects of cloud computing.

...

After reading it, Liu Guangran was confused.

It’s not that he didn’t understand what the big boss of Google said, but—

"Are we really going to make this thing?"

"Yes." Cao Yang smiled, smiling very handsomely and terrifyingly.

"My idea is to start with the same method as Google. First, I want to set up a Bomi R&D center to specialize in technical research and development.

At the same time, we have joined hands with major domestic universities to do research on cloud computing-related topics, which is faster than we do it ourselves.

After the cloud computing is completed, it can solve the server allocation problem we are currently facing, and it can also solve the problems that may be encountered in mobile phone big data in the future."

The server allocation problem is easy to understand. When Cao Yang said that Liu Guangran understood—

Through cloud computing, free servers are allocated to required projects for use, and then the servers are allocated back at peak times.

It means that everyone shares multiple servers and completes dynamic allocation of tasks through cloud computing, so that there will be no waste.

"But what is the problem with mobile phone big data?" Liu Guangran didn't understand very much.

"The mobile phone has higher requirements for data extraction and storage," Cao Yang said. "Now it has entered the era of big data. Think about it, everyone generates information through computers every minute. Now the number of QQ interactions at the same time has reached billions. The information generated by each person every day is a very huge number. In the future, the amount of data generated by our mobile phones will only be more or less.

Moreover, such a huge amount of data requires a lot of calculations, whether it is storage, extraction or interaction.

Big data and cloud computing are inseparable, just like the front and back of a coin.

This is also why I set up the Bomi Technology Research Center.”

"Well..." Liu Guangran thought for a while, nodded, "Okay, I understand."

Boss Cao's consideration is very correct. He just watched this video from Google and instinctively felt the power of cloud computing. It is very likely that the whole world will be subverted by cloud computing and big data in the future, just like Bomi's smartphones have redefined the meaning of mobile phones now.

No, to be precise, the world has long entered the era of big data, but there are currently no good means to split and research big data and use big data.

This time it was a good opportunity.

Bomi is completely correct to take this step first.
Chapter completed!