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The little coin that ate Quebec

机译:吃了魁北克的小硬币

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At first glance, nothing looks particularly cutting-edge about this aging industrial park in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, about 60 miles east of Montreal. The air is thick with the smell of roasting cacao, which billows from a massive chocolate factory and seeps into tractor-trailers and forgotten offices. Nearby, an audiovisual repair shop and an agricultural lab specializing in the detection of livestock pathogens vie for space with a massive disused dairy processing plant. Tucked behind all three sits a worn, low-slung building that previously served as a warehouse for a soup company and, before that, a factory producing diapers. You might think it, too, had since been forgotten, were it not for the plastic sheeting hinting at new construction inside and the small fleet of shining company cars stationed in the parking lot. But the biggest clue of all that something both new and decidedly high-tech is happening here can be heard while standing next to those cars: an omnipresent hum, audible well outside the building, created by thousands of computers, each one completing the same singular task again and again and again, day after day, without change or interruption.
机译:乍一看,在蒙特利尔以东约60英里处的魁北克省Saint-Hyacinthe老化的工业园区中,没有什么看起来特别前沿。空气中弥漫着烤可可的气味,可可的气味从一个巨大的巧克力工厂里滚滚而来,渗入拖拉机的拖车和被遗忘的办公室。在附近,一家视听维修店和一家专门研究牲畜病原体的农业实验室争夺一个废弃的大型乳品加工厂的空间。在这三者的后面都坐着一栋破旧的,低矮的建筑物,该建筑物以前曾是一家汤公司的仓库,在那之前是一家生产尿布的工厂。您可能会认为,它也早已被遗忘了,如果不是因为塑料布暗示了内部的新建筑以及停泊在停车场的一小队闪亮的公司汽车。但是,当站在这些汽车旁边时,可以听到这里发生着新的东西和绝对的高科技的最大线索:无处不在的嗡嗡声,在建筑物外听得见,由数千台计算机创建,每台计算机都完成相同的操作日复一日,一次又一次地完成任务,而无需更改或中断。

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    《Technology review》 |2018年第3期|35-39|共5页
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    KATHRYN MILES;

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