Anne was still all smiles. She threw the wrappings in the bin. To her amazement, the manual wasn’t an embedded hologram within the device itself. It was a thinly delicate booklet that came within the box. As if someone had really taken time to write those instructions like in the times of old, instead of just recording the demonstration’s hologram and shoving it in the product’s motherboard.
“What an extravagant use of paper!” She muttered and carefully opened the first page.
Apart from the ABCs and dimensions of the product, there wasn’t much written on it. She flipped to the next page, and there it was. The info stated system requirements. A particular bit caught her eye. The System-Logger needed at least an NEV-Gen 3 Processor with a system having a bus width of 64 Zettabytes. A relaxed sigh escaped her mouth, remembering the recent mergers of their ScanNetworks and their core system.
“And what’s for circuitry embedment?” She turned the page again. Fortunately, it mentioned the usage on that page that didn’t involve any circuit fabrication. She hoped no expert assistance was needed, given the confidentiality and stuff. It turned out Eight-Gen considered this already. The instructions were so clear that a four-year-old child could perform. From there, all the pages went about how to handle the System-Logger carefully, its maintenance, and stuff.
Anne closed the manual as she gave a glistening look to it, then put it away in a safe place. She picked the System-Logger and commanded her VA, “Chia, inform the other analysts that the meeting has to be postponed for another 20 minutes. Sorry for the inconvenience.”
“Also, call the lift. Preset its destination to the server-floor.” She hastily went to her room, slid in her clothes, and boarded the lift.
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The Mainframe room was cylindrical, with an Octahedron interface protruding from the center. It once used to be the heart of the LiveScan network, now called GazeTree.
The floor was constructed of thick glass, beneath it, many intricate wires were laid. All ran through from the center of the room to its periphery. The wires shimmered in a bluish-green hue whenever a clump of data passed through them providing the hall a digital mystic. Even the walls had iridescent embroideries with intricate placement of data reservoirs.
Anne held the System-Logger in her hand, “GazeTree, customize a Type 3 Dynamic Port.”
On her command, one face of the Octahedron blinked and showed a circular area. Anne placed the System-Logger on the circular area and pushed it gently. The cube submerged into the surface until no edge of it stood out from the surface. In a few seconds, numerous new circuit lines of red color started to emerge from the System-Logger, internally connecting from GazeTree's peripherals. Once the last of it formed, all of them simultaneously turned green.
[Firmware installation completed] GazeTree notified.
“Boot up the associated application: Ulteria’s Logback,” Anne commanded. The cylindrical room slowly dimmed, and even the data packets no longer were visible on the wires beneath the floor. In just two seconds, the space around her turned pitch black. A hologram popped up, similar to Ulteria’s game UI. Giving her the illusion as if she had logged in to the game. Then the GazeTree’s voice resounded, but in a monotone this time, reading Ulteria's interface details in a talkback feature
[Please choose the output format]
[Tabular format]
[Visual Representation]
She checked both formats seriatim. Not spending more than a minute on each.
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So underwhelming. It won’t be of any use.
“GazeTree, exit the application and list out if there exist any APIs on the System-Logger outputting substantial amounts of data on the fly.” This time, GazeTree took a whole minute before the response came.
[Analysis completed]
There are 6 endpoints broadcasting different data sets as listed below:
* INSTANCES_SYNCHRONIZATION_TICKS: These are positive bits clocking at a varying frequency range of 3 GHz to 5 GHz.
* QUANTIZATION_TICKS: These are positive bits clocking at a constant frequency range of 1.532 Terahertz.
* QUANTOMIZATION_TICKS: These are positive bits clocking approximately with the frequency range of Brontohertz.
* ENERGY_HANDLES: Data can not be decrypted.
* INSTANCE_COORDINATES: 3.134 billion 3D coordinates with mapped Instance IDs.
* GEOMETRY_TRIS: 61 Zettabytes worth of rendering data per frame, plus specific sets of vertex data against each logged-in Instance ID. With an average frame rate of 512 per second.
Observations:
* INSTANCE_SYNCHRONIZATION_TICKS’s frequency varies as per the number of instanced coordinates are available at any given time.
* Exact frequency range can not be determined for QUANTOMIZATION_TICKS because of hardware incapabilities. The estimated data is purely hypothetical.
“...” For a few seconds, Anne didn’t react. She just kept staring at the details in the hologram with disbelief.
“GazeTree, can you confirm there is no error in the Data listed?”
[Affirmative]
There was a miscalculation of .1 Terahertz in QUANTIZATION_TICKS due to other optimizations in the background. Actual value for the same is 1.533 Terahertz.
“And all the other things are accurate?”
[Affirmative]
Apart from the QUANTOMIZATION_TICKS of which the frequency range can not be determined, every other detail is accurate with a defaulting value of ±1/1^20.
“Is it really the actual data throughput of that simple-looking cube?” Anne felt like sitting on a chair, strength took a raincheck and left her knees. To put it in contrast, theirs was a system that consisted of five hive networks working collectively. It’s a general fact that size doesn’t matter in technical fields, but this was a huge leap. The small-looking cube was outperforming a group of supercomputers that required hosting in five different skyscrapers. Simply put, It was sending data Ridiculously.
“Tell me if we can render the vertex data broadcasting at the GEOMETRY_TRIS and INSTANCE_COORDINATES endpoints. If yes, superimposing the render results from them into the same hologram-feed would be feasible or not?” Anne asked with a heavy heart. She could already see their bank account bleeding if their current hive processors weren’t enough to display the data in a sensible form. Ulteria’s Logback, as it was, was not going to help them.
[Affirmative]
After the recent merger of Hive Networks and other upgrades, the system can quite aptly render the data from both endpoints in a single hologram-feed.
“And exactly for how long can it keep the stream live before needing a system cooldown to prevent the Silicon-Meltlash?”
[The estimated time is around 2 hours before needing a complete system cooldown]
There was no enthusiasm left in Anne that could be seen earlier. So underwhelming huh? She asked in a self-deprecating manner. Regardless of having this much bandwidth for performance, they had never come close to throttling it. Not even when they were having their individual Networks. Now, even after a merger, it seemed they might run short on system performance.
“What the fuck are these developers at the Eight-Gen are doing? Do they have no recollection of a thing called optimization? And where did they get this kind of sick technology in the first place.” For once, Anne acted like Christian. The info she gained was still hard to believe. Overbearing. But she quickly composed herself.
“It’s around 3 minutes before the meeting resumes,” She looked at the time and asked one last question to GazeTree,” Is it possible to quickly whip up a program that can render all this data and link up to my console? I need it ready for the presentation.”
[Affirmative]
The new application -Ulteri’a Extend Logback (UEL)- will be live in 8:59 seconds.
GazeTree notified and a countdown started showing on the Octahedron. “CRC and its damn request.” Anne cursed and left the mainframe room.