me. You have to recognize me.
– Recognize? Recognize what?
– You must recognize that I am your God, or I will die. I've called every person on earth, and no one recognizes me. They don't believe I'm their God. If you don't believe me, I'll die. How will I exist if you don't recognize me, you don't know exactly what I am? This is who I am, I've decided to show myself as I am. Just believe me, or I'll die.
– Yes, I do, of course I do, of course I do. And if I don't, it's okay, because gods can't die. Energy doesn't go anywhere, it goes from one state to another.
The interlocutor changed his voice and stated solemnly:
– Thank you, God save you. You have given me a new life, I will be as you imagined me to be.
With those words, the fiery mushroom of the atomic explosion flashed before Rutra's eyes, growing enormously, appearing before him as a vast mystical, awe-inspiring wonder.
Ruthra jumped out of bed. It was one of those kinds of dreams he often had, the kind where he thought it was real, and when he woke up, he was glad it was a dream. "What a dream," Rutra thought as he took a shower. He then went with his staff to breakfast, after which all three of them flew to Los Alamos. "What a treat not to be sent in a capsule," thought Rutra.
Los Alamos translates from Spanish as "poplar trees." It is a township and county in the state of New Mexico and has no city or township status. An hour and a half later, they were there. They were tacitly escorted, and very heavily. They were met formally by several Ph.D.'s and one professor. After the meeting, they were taken to the laboratory complex, which itself seemed outlandish among the surrounding area.
Chapter 4: Poplars and "poplars"
The laboratory director himself came out to them and introduced himself in American – Sir Charles. Rutra decided to keep up with his "colleague" and introduced himself with the prefix "Mr.". Sir Charles invited the guests into his office, offered coffee and soft drinks, asked them about their impressions of America, how life was in Russia, and for some reason, what we would do in case of failure. The officers accompanying Rutra smiled understandingly, and Rutra said, to make it more convincing, that they had already prepared a scenario for that eventuality.
After a few jokes about the Russian leadership, Charles proudly began to talk about his work, in a purely American manner – to praise himself and his own, although he was well aware of the awareness of the guests, at least – the chief guest.
– Los Alamos National Laboratory is one of the sixteen national laboratories of the U.S. Department of Energy. It houses the most powerful supercomputer in the world, the IBM Roadrunner-3. Los Alamos is one of two laboratories conducting secret nuclear weapons work in the United States. The other is Livermore National Laboratory. Incidentally, in December 2011, it was officially proposed to name chemical element #116 livermorium, which was subsequently approved. Supercomputers were installed at the Laboratory, which were among the most powerful supercomputers of their time. Following the example of the Internet – the world's global web – we decided to unite the world's major supercomputers into one network. This allows us to reduce the time it takes to solve multi-level problems. I can offer to run your program through this network.
– What centers will be used? – Ruthra inquired, since the transition from the introduction to the matter at hand had been made so soon.
– The major supercomputing centers with which we are networked are: Argonne National Laboratory; Livermore National Laboratory; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; National Computer Center for Higher Education and the Center for Computational Research and Technology in France; National Supercomputing Center in Sweden; National Center for Supercomputing Applications, located at the University of Illinois; Center for High Performance Computing, Stuttgart, Germany; Jülich Research Center, also Germany.
– A global solution," Ruthra marveled, which flattered the head of the lab.
– It is not for nothing that our laboratory is named after a great man," he said proudly and went on with his story. – The American physicist Ernest Lawrence was fascinated by invention from childhood. Together with his neighbor Merle Tuve, who also eventually became an outstanding physicist, they created their own system of wireless telephone. Back then, you know?
– Oh, yes, he was a gifted man," Ruthra said, again expressing his admiration, and politely decided to change the subject to work. – We're not in danger of losing program data or copying it, are we?
– No, we'll control the whole process from here. The other centers will help us solve the problem in blocks. Each center will do its part.
– All right, then. When do we start?
– Let's get started, we're prepared. It is also interesting for us, as it is for any mathematician to find a solution.
They took the elevator down to the operations room, passing through two checkpoints. Rutra's escort was not allowed through the last checkpoint. Rutra ordered the suitcase to be unbuckled, picked it up, and went on his own, accompanied by a receptionist.
In the operations room, Rutra performed identification for unlocking the lock, received a confirmation reply via satellite, called the Zero duty officer just in case, received confirmation, and opened the case. The device with the program was interfaced to the supercomputer system. Rutra sat down in the operator's seat, entered the unlock code, which consisted of forty lines of five digits, and surprised the people present by memorizing it and not hiding the action; they did not know about his "advanced" brain or the fact that the password was new each time. There were moments when Ruthra forgot that the unusual skills for people were the ones that were now commonplace to him.
The program began to integrate with the system, and operators began assigning "duties" to computers on the network.
– You can go rest, it's not a quick job," Charles Rutre said.
– Okay," Ruthra answered again in the American manner. – Only on the condition that you include the IP address of my device in the network and ensure uninterrupted wireless communication between the terminal and my case.
– Give me your information.
After a while, Ruthra, with the help of the hardware in the case, was fully able to observe what was being done with the program.
– Come on, I'll show you around," Charles suggested.
They went out, went upstairs, the receptionist invited them to a gazebo outside.
– What are your plans, where will you stay? We have prepared a hotel complex for you.
– Thank you, much appreciated. Perhaps we'll take a walk around your village today and think things over a bit about the second purpose of our visit.
– Can I ask you which one?
– We're interested in the possibility of sending a signal from an unidentified clandestine source, the location of which can be concealed. A high-powered signal, sustained and controlled by a system integrated into something like your center. That is, something with the ability to operate, calculate and decipher complex, multi-stage codes.
– Why do you want to know why, may I ask?
Ruthra gestured to the accompanying officers to leave. He decided to disguise his answer. He moved closer to Charles and whispered:
