by Vas Mylko
Curiosio looks and works as a search engine for users. What users don’t see is that it is computation, not a search in the index. The backend of Curiosio is very much more like the backend of WolframAlpha. In other words, it’s an answer engine created by Computational Intelligence. It answers unique travel queries by computing answers.
Computational Intelligence is HPC. HPC needs power, a lot of electric power. The power bill was a decisive factor back then when we made the decision to go with our own equipment vs. renting in the cloud. There were other arguments against the cloud, such as the data gravity phenomenon — moving data is a problem, and moving big data is hard.
On 24th of February, 2022, Russian Federation and Belarus massively attacked our country Ukraine. They intentionally aim the missiles at critical infrastructures such as power stations and power grids. It’s a war crime. On the 14th of November, United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Russian reparations for Ukraine. On the 21st of November, NATO Parliamentary Assembly designates the Russian terrorist regime.
Now we live without light. More than 50% of the national power infrastructure is destroyed. Twice during 24h, there are planned cutoffs for 4h, which is 8h per day. Emergency power cuts may happen on top of the scheduled cutoff. We are working on the Curiosio v20, but everything is disrupted and we cannot announce anything ahead of time. The magical red button in web search results will work someday…
Russians hit our power grid massively on the 10th and 11th of October, launching ~90 missiles simultaneously. On the 15th of November Russian nuclear terrorism resulted in Rivne Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) shutting down 1 of 4 power units and Khmelnytskyi NPP halted the operation of 2 power units when ~100 missiles were launched simultaneously. On 17th of November, rashists attacked our gas production facilities…
On the 23rd of November, the terrorist state of russia launched ~70 missiles again, aiming at the power grid, causing a national blackout. It happened exactly after European Parliament declared Russia a state sponsor of terrorism. All Ukrainian NPPs were urgently disconnected from the grid because of the frequency drop.
If you like Curiosio and live in a democratic country, we appeal for your help. Please help Ukrainians win the war. Help to stop #rashism globally. Communicate to your governments that bigger and stronger weapons gifted, lent, or sold to Ukraine will help brave Ukrainians stop and defeat the atrocious enemy of ruzzia. Thank you in advance!
