Chapter 337 Computational Chemical Nuclear Weapons! (3/3)

Chapter 337 Computational chemical nuclear weapons! (33)

For any scholar, after hearing this simple request, I am afraid that he will be ecstatic with excitement.

After all, supercars are very expensive, and even renting them is not cheap. David's promise is equivalent to millions or even tens of millions of expenses. In contrast, his request is only to add the name of the D.E. Shaw Institute to the position of the thesis research institution.

After hearing David's trivial request, although Lu Zhou was not as ecstatic as those poor theoretical researchers, he still felt quite surprised by his request.

Compared with profitable research in applied fields, research in theoretical fields will definitely lose money, and it will definitely lose a lot of money.

Naturally, Lu Zhou would not refuse such an internationalist request.

Nodding his head, he said cheerfully, "It's easy."

...

In a sense, it was inevitable that Lu Zhou chose Anton for this experiment.

Ordinary general-purpose supercomputers cannot perform molecular dynamics simulations very efficiently.

However, Anton is different. It completes its computing work on a dedicated ASIC, and each chip is born for computational chemistry.

With a total of 512 computing nodes, it can simulate more than 17,000 nanoseconds per day in a protein-water system composed of 23,558 atoms.

In contrast, for a general-purpose supercomputer with the same number of processors, the simulation rate of parallel computing on the same chemical system can only reach the level of hundreds of nanoseconds per day.

It is precisely because of this that Anton is called the nuclear weapon of computational chemistry.

I have to say that David is indeed a genius.

This is true whether it is in finance or massively parallel computing, or in the field of polymer chemistry.

If it weren't for the fact that Anton was too expensive, ordinary research institutes would not be able to afford it. Perhaps one day in the future, the Nobel Committee would even consider nominating him.

Just like the biologist Jacques Duboucher, who was nominated for the 2017 Chemistry Prize for his cryo-electron microscopy...

After letting Jericho drive his own car back, Lu Zhou sent an application to Columbia University through Princeton University, applying to be a visiting scholar here for one month.

For a well-known scholar like him to visit, Columbia University naturally welcomes him with open arms. Even in order to facilitate his research, a temporary dormitory was arranged for him near the institute.

Under the condition of sufficient funds, theoretical research that does not involve patent disputes is always easier to reach a consensus than research in the applied field.

Especially for two people who are not short of money.

After signing a cooperative research agreement, the scope of work of both parties and the signature of the paper were simply stipulated, and the experiment was quickly arranged.

For the joint research project between the two, David also showed the utmost importance.

Not only did it cancel the experimental arrangement in the original plan, but it also mobilized all the power of the entire D.E. Shaw Institute to devote itself to this work.

Soon, Lu Zhou saw Anton's strong fighting power.

On the day of the experiment, in the Anton Supercomputing Center.

Massively parallel computing engineering sits in front of the computer and waits for it.

Lu Zhou and David stood behind and watched, quietly waiting for the experiment to start.

"Experimental group No. 1 is in place!"

"Experimental group No. 2 is already in place!"

"..."

"Start the experiment!"

The azure blue signal light kept flashing.

In the virtual digital world, Anton simulated the mathematical model provided by Lu Zhou with his powerful computing power.

The first experiment lasted a full nine hours!

Unfortunately, the results of the experiment were not ideal.

Looking at the experimental report submitted by the engineers of the Supercomputing Center, David frowned and said with some nerve-wracking.

"The mathematical model you designed is too complicated... Is there a way to simplify it?"

"I tried to simplify it, but it was difficult." Lu Zhou shook his head.

If it could be simplified, he would have done it a long time ago, and he would not wait until now to consider this issue.

"That's up to me to figure out a way," David stroked his chin, thinking seriously.

He is not an expert in the field of mathematics, and he may not be able to simplify those complex mathematical equations, but considering this issue from the perspective of parallel computing, Anton can do calculations more efficiently by improving software, theoretically it can still be done of.

Lu Zhou said seriously: "Please."

"You're welcome," David waved his hand, and said in a joking tone, "at least for now, the mathematical models you have come up with are still within Anton's ability. But if it is more complicated, I'm afraid it will have to wait until Quantum computers are mature enough to perfect your theory."

...

Lu Zhou's visiting research at Columbia University is not something worth deliberately keeping secret. With his frequent visits to the D.E. Shaw Institute, the news quickly spread on the campus of Columbia University.

Many people are full of curiosity about the winner of the Crawford Prize and Adams Prize in Chemistry who is only in his twenties. Very few people can achieve such outstanding achievements at such an age, especially in two very different fields such as mathematics and chemistry.

Of course, the students who are most interested in Lu Zhou are not the students of Columbia University, but his opponent in the lithium-sulfur battery project - Mobil Chemical.

A little trouble on Lu Zhou's side will make them very nervous.

Not to mention, such a big move...

Binghamton University, within the Institute of Materials Science.

Woods, who just finished a meeting in New York, rushed here in a hurry.

"Bad news! Lu Zhou found David Xiao and borrowed a supercomputer from him."

For the news provided by Woods, Stanley was not too surprised, but he still cast a surprised look at him: "Is it okay for you to run to the laboratory every two days?"

This kind of thing that can be explained clearly in one sentence can be clearly said on the phone. In addition to this battery material, the CEO of ExxonMobil should still have a lot of important work to do.

"It doesn't matter as long as you can get results ahead of them." Sitting on the sofa in the laboratory, Woods had a gloomy expression and cursed, "What a bad luck! Why did Lu Zhou find David Xiao all of a sudden? Why? Why is it that freak who doesn't like oil and salt?"

If it is cooperating with other laboratories, ExxonMobil can rely on its own influence to put pressure on those laboratories with funding exchanges through the research funds funded by itself to delay the progress of their research.

However, David Xiao is an exception. This guy is a well-known freak on Wall Street. He is clearly a fund, but he is not interested in money at all.

"It's normal. One of them is doing computational materials and the other is doing computational chemistry. It's not surprising that they urinate together." Standing in front of the scanning electron microscope and waiting for the experimental results, Professor Stanley said with a relaxed expression, "You In fact, there is no need to be so nervous, no matter how perfect the mathematical formula or theoretical model is, if it cannot be finally implemented in the experiment, it is nothing but speculation."

So what if you're good at math?

So what if you borrowed a supercomputer?

Computer simulation experiments are indeed a very promising method, but in the end it has to be implemented in specific experiments.

Summarizing experience through trial and error and finding a way to the key point is the only way for all materials science experiments.

Fortunately, they already know the answer now, all they need to do is write the process according to the answer.

Woods said impatiently: "What I want to know now is how long are we from the finish line?"

Staring at the molecular model on the screen, Professor Stanley smiled calmly.

"It's very close!"