Beyond the core Void Particle Research Institute, the National Laboratory also included many purely Muggle research institutes, such as the Institute of Computing Technology, the Institute of Mathematics, the Institute of Optoelectronics, the Institute of Molecular Biology, and the Institute of Neuroscience.
Because some research required extremely precise measurements, and the existence of magic could make it impossible to control variables accurately, not every institute was incorporated into the Science and Technology City system.
These Muggle research institutes and the Void Particle Research Institute were arranged in fan-shaped formations around the vast lands of the Science and Technology City. At their very center stood the National Supercomputing Center.
It was a complex composed of six hexagonal-prism-like towers. The tallest tower reached 242 meters, while underground spaces extended 46 meters beneath them. The entire complex possessed a rugged yet grand futuristic style that perfectly suited Murphy's tastes.
The Central Supercomputer—Pioneer—was housed within this complex.
Pioneer was actually a collection of six supercomputers, transmitting signals through optical cables and performing synchronized calculations. In total, it used nearly 70,000 CPUs and more than 300,000 GPUs, with close to 70 million processing cores altogether. Half of the Umbrella chip factory's output last year had gone toward supplying this supercomputer.
These chips were Umbrella's latest 7-nanometer-process chips. Their fabrication process was extremely advanced, already approaching the standards of chips from around 2020 in Murphy's original world.
Producing chips at this level in 1995 was naturally partly due to Murphy digging up many advanced process-related technologies from his mind through Total Recall.
But on the other hand, it still owed much to the continued in-depth development of the Enlarging and Shrinking Charms.
With the Philosopher's Stone providing stable magical output and enchantment technology in place, industrial production could now operate without wizards, and many spells had