Chapter 502 Building a Supercomputer

Hearing Principal Xu's concern, Lu Zhou froze for a moment, then said with a smile.

"Actually, it's nothing. It may be that Mr. Zhou saw that my development was too smooth, and worried that I would surpass him one day, so he shouted in the newspaper, asking me to stop and wait for him."

Hearing Lu Zhou's words, Principal Xu shook his head.

"You have a good mentality, and you still have the mind to joke with me."

"It's not a big deal in the first place, and it's harmless to make a joke." Lu Zhou smiled indifferently, and continued in a chatty tone, "In Mr. Zhou's opinion, controllable nuclear fusion is his private land, so naturally he won't Voices that are not under his control are allowed. To put it bluntly, this is not a problem with tokamaks and stellarators, no matter what I am researching, as long as the STAR stellarator project is not under his control, as long as my research shakes his Authority, it is inevitable that he will have opinions on me."

Principal Xu smiled and said: "...you see it thoroughly, so you don't care at all?"

"I really don't care much about what he says," Lu Zhou smiled lightly. "It might be affected by changing someone, but it doesn't affect me that much."

"...That's fine, but if he cheats on you and does something out of the ordinary, you can tell me. I may not be able to help you with your research, but I still have nothing to do with writing two letters. The problem," Unscrewed the thermos cup and took a sip of hot tea, Principal Xu paused for a moment, then continued, "Not only me, but also your mentor, Lao Lu, and the entire Jinda University, we are all on your side. "

Lu Zhou: "If it really gets to that point, I will speak up."

"I'm relieved when you say that," Principal Xu nodded. "What I'm most worried about isn't that something went wrong with your research, but that you didn't talk about something that happened to you."

Lu Zhou smiled embarrassedly: "You are joking, am I the kind of person who treats me badly?"

"Okay, let's stop chatting, I know you definitely didn't come here today for what I said," Principal Xu said with a smile, "Tell me, what trouble did you encounter?"

Putting on a serious expression, Lu Zhou continued to speak.

"I'm here to visit you today, mainly because I want to chat with you about procedural issues."

"Procedural issues? I'm good at this." Putting down the thermos in his hand, Principal Xu said with interest, "Let's hear it, even if I can't solve it, among the academicians of the Information Technology Department, I can give it to you." You recommend a few people who can solve it."

Lu Zhou: "About the control scheme of the stellarator."

"The control scheme of the stellarator?" After hearing Lu Zhou's question, Principal Xu froze for a moment, frowned and said, "I don't know much about this. Can you explain it in detail?"

Lu Zhou nodded, and explained the specific content of the question to Principal Xu from an academic point of view.

In short, whether it is a tokamak or a stellarator, the high-density plasma in the cavity is extremely unstable, and turbulence occurs all the time.

If the magnetic field that confines the plasma is the invisible hand, the computer that controls the outer field coils is the brain. But just having a brain is not enough. All changes in the plasma happen in an instant, and it is impossible for humans to control them. These tasks can only be done by programs.

On this point, the Max Planck Society has a relatively right to speak. According to the control scheme established by the plasma turbulence model provided by Lu Zhou, the running time of the Helix 7-X device was successfully increased to 30 minutes, which shocked the industry.

Now the plasma turbulence model is ready-made, and the success of Helix 7-X has also proved that this idea is feasible. What Lu Zhou needs to do now is to prepare a reliable control scheme for his STAR device .

The Institute for Advanced Study does not have talents who are proficient in information technology. With his little programming skills, it is not a problem to develop a few small software, but it is still a bit stretched for a large-scale scientific research project such as stellarator.

Therefore, Lu Zhou set his sights on Jin Da.

As one of King University's strong majors after physics, King University's Software Institute is also ranked first in China. In addition, President Xu himself is an academician of the Department of Information Technology Science, so it is perfect to ask him for help.

After listening to Lu Zhou's explanation, Principal Xu thought for a moment, and said, "I'm afraid the problems you mentioned are not just procedural problems, right?"

Lu Zhou said with some embarrassment: "Uh, that's right."

Ashamed to say, until now, the brain part of the STAR device is not only missing the software, but the hardware problem also needs to be solved.

Like the construction of supercomputers, these are tasks that require professionals to complete.

Principal Xu sighed: "Forget it, tomorrow I'll call a meeting with the professors of the Software Institute and set up a working group. Including the problem of the control scheme, we will help you solve the software and hardware problems together... I probably ask Now, how much is your budget prepared for?"

Lu Zhou thought for a while, and casually reported a number: "One hundred million."

Principal Xu: "..."

Lu Zhou hesitated: "Isn't it enough?"

No way, he didn't intend to build Tianhe-2, how could 100 million be enough?

Principal Xu coughed lightly: "...It's nothing, it's enough, I'm just a little surprised."

In fact, what he wanted to say in his heart was that you guys who engage in controlled nuclear fusion are really rich, but it really didn't fit his status to say it.

With hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, you don't know how many professors you can support by just throwing out a project.

No wonder that Zhou Chengfu was jealous.

"Our software academy can help you with the matter of supercomputing and control solutions. Is there anything else?"

Just as Lu Zhou was about to say no more, he suddenly remembered what Yang Xu had mentioned to him about the employee sports meeting a few days ago, so he spoke.

"By the way, there is one more thing."

Principal Xu: "What's the matter?"

"It's not an important thing, but our research institute plans to hold a sports meeting, but our own gymnasium hasn't been repaired yet." Speaking of this, Lu Zhou smiled embarrassedly, "If it's not troublesome, I would like to borrow A venue or something."

Hearing this request, Principal Xu said with a smile.

"That's it? It's easy to say. I'll call the academic affairs side later. By the way, Director Liu was also discussing with me about the faculty sports meeting a while ago, or it just so happens that we discuss a time and hold it together ?”

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Yes, I have no objection."

Jinling Institute for Advanced Study and Jinling University are a family, not only in cooperation on research topics, many researchers at the Institute for Advanced Study also have teaching positions at Jinling University.

And sports games are boring if there are fewer people, but naturally it is fun when there are more people.

Seeing that there is no problem with Lu Zhou, Principal Xu also slapped his thigh with a smile, and readily agreed: "That's fine, it's settled like this. When we leave the venue, the prizes and so on will be handed over to you."

Lu Zhou: "..."

always feel...

It seems that some strange agreement has been mixed in.

But forget it, anyway, he is not short of this money.