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Chapter 32 Results

Mu Haoyang was also paying attention to things outside and knew that Huang Zhibo would look for him soon, so on the 20th, when Sino-Japanese relations began to deteriorate, he prepared a technical report for submitting. Huang Zhibo called and mentioned that when he came to inspect the scientific research results in person, Mu Haoyang was already prepared.

"It's quite a small scale, now I know how the money is spent."

"Mr. Huang, Professor Qian and Professor Lu are still processing the last experimental data. We have prepared midnight snacks for you, so you might as well go and eat while waiting."

"Are you hungry?" Huang Zhibo looked at Mu Haoyang and said, "I'm not hungry, you have to go by yourself."

Mu Haoyang was stopped all of a sudden, but he had good intentions but no good rewards.

"Which room is Qian Zhongtai and Lu Wen in?"

“The data processing center is right in front.”

"Take me over." Huang Zhibo glanced at his watch and said, "It's almost dawn. When they finish it, go for breakfast together."

Huang Zhibo said so, and Mu Haoyang is not good enough to not make arrangements.

The data processing center is actually a computer center.

In the entire experimental center, the supercomputer in the data processing center is not only second only to the second most expensive scientific research equipment of the hasron collider, but also ranks second in power consumption. The power consumption at full speed is equivalent to the daily power consumption of a medium-sized city with a population of 500,000.

Because it mainly relies on the Northwest Wind Power Grid, the hasten collider and the supercomputer cannot run at the same time.

These two large power consumers will only be able to use the second phase of the nuclear power plant near Lanzhou after the completion of the second phase of the project with an installed capacity of 150 megawatts.

Inadequate power supply seriously limits the working efficiency of the experimental center.

Qian Zhongtai has already made a report and hopes to find other ways to solve the power supply problem, but the effect is not great. We can't let nearby cities shut down and limit power.

In fact, this has been done when the Hadron Collider is running at full speed.

The impact of occasionally shutting down power is not great. Anyway, similar situations often occur across the country, but long-term shutting down power is bound to cause trouble.

The running time of a supercomputer is not calculated in hours or days, but in months.

A mathematical model involving multivariables often takes more than one month to obtain preliminary results, while a mathematical model for sunspots is more complex.

The calculation speed cannot be improved, so scientists can only find a way.

In order to obtain available data as soon as possible, Qian Zhongtai proposed a solution: the calculation is carried out in stages and the amount of operations is reduced by manual intervention.

To put it simply, it is to artificially eliminate some secondary variables during the calculation process.

Obviously, this method is not rigorous.

Any scientist, especially astrophysicist, should know that any tiny variable will have an impact on the final result after countless amplifications.

It can be said that this is the most critical part of the entire experiment.

Because there are too many variables, and each variable may affect the experimental results, it is necessary to obtain enough experimental data and a supercomputer that is fast enough. In Qian Zhongtai's words, with the current human technology, even if all computers around the world are used to calculate his solar model, it will take two hundred years to get the final result. A supercomputer can only do something irrelevant at most.

Of course, computers are developing very rapidly, and computers that will satisfy Qian Zhongtai may not be long before they appear.

But for now, Qian Zhongtai can only do some ordinary research work.

When Huang Zhibo and Mu Haoyang came, Qian Zhongtai had already obtained the calculation results and was doing deviation analysis with Lu Wen to prepare for the next calculation.

"Mr. Huang, you are a rare guest."

"Old Qian, are you sarcasticating me?" Huang Zhibo smiled and said, "It's not the first time I've been to this place. I have invested so much money, so I have to come and take a look to feel relieved."

"Why, are you afraid that I will fill my pockets?"

"Of course not. The country is not rich yet, and money has to be spent on the blade."

Qian Zhongtai also smiled and said, "You came at the right time. Xiaomu told me that it seems that the east is not peaceful, and the General Staff wants us to do some efforts."

"This is what I mean." Huang Zhibo corrected Qian Zhongtai's statement.

"Let's go, go to the restaurant and talk."

"Is there any result?" Huang Zhibo finally asked a key question.

"Mr. Huang, you will definitely not let you go in vain when you come here. But Xiao Lu and I have been busy all night, so we have to fill our stomachs."

When Qian Zhongtai said this, Mu Haoyang had already made arrangements.

Although there are no special arrangements and Huang Zhibo hates that others give him special arrangements, he can't let the Deputy Chief of Staff talk about military issues in front of dozens or hundreds of scientific researchers.

Fortunately, the experimental center is very large and has several restaurants, which will not have much impact on it.

Breakfast is very simple, mainly bread, milk, and soy milk porridge, which is mainly convenient. Most scientific researchers will not eat breakfast in the restaurant, but will take it to their jobs.

There is nothing strange about it. For most scientific researchers, especially younger scientific researchers, working at the experimental center is more meaningful than going abroad to gilt. After a few years, even if you don’t have any grades, you will be sure to be promoted after you go back. If you can achieve some grades, it is basically a foregone conclusion to become a professor before the age of 35. In order to achieve grades, young scientific researchers can be said to be forgetting to eat and sleep.

When Huang Zhibo and others came over, Mu Haoyang had already cleared the restaurant and asked the guards to guard the two entrances and exits.

"What, give me special treatment?"

"No, there are so many people, so some things are inconvenient to say." Mu Haoyang had already thought of the reason, "Besides, not everyone knows what Professor Qian wants to say later."

Huang Zhibo nodded and did not ask any more questions.

After the three big guys sat down, Mu Haoyang ran around and sent the breakfast. Qian Zhongtai was more westernized, and breakfast was usually bread and milk, and an egg was added the next day. Lu Wen was also more westernized, and she would only eat soy milk porridge when she had no choice. As for Huang Zhibo, Mu Haoyang knew that it was usually porridge and steamed buns. It would be best if there were meat buns. But today there were no meat buns, only bean paste buns. Mu Haoyang himself had no requirements for what he had eaten, and basically ate whatever he saw, and it would be appropriate to fill him.

Huang Zhibo did not rush to open up the topic, but asked Qian Zhongtai and Lu Wen to have breakfast with peace of mind.

"Mr. Huang, come here in person, is the situation changing?" Qian Zhongtai's appetite was not big, a few slices of bread and a glass of milk was enough.

"You haven't read the latest news?"

"Living in this place and dealing with data all day long, how can you have the energy to take care of the outside world?" Qian Zhongtai smiled, "I'm not afraid of you making fun of it. The newspapers that the center ordered for me are still on my bedside, just for use as a pillow, and can be replaced with new ones every now and then."

Huang Zhibo smiled and shook his head, saying, "It seems that this expense can be saved."

"Then you have to buy me a good pillow, preferably a space cotton one."

"No problem. After I go back, I will send someone to send you seven people to you for daily use." Huang Zhibo and Qian Zhongtai have an extraordinary relationship, and there is no restraint when making jokes. "To be honest, this time I came here because the situation has lost control, the head of state made a war decision and made clear requirements. If I can't win at the minimum price, I, the deputy chief of staff, have to be dismissed."

"So serious?"

"That's right, do you think the head of state is talking empty words?" Huang Zhibo smiled and said, "Old Qian, I'm nothing myself. You also know that I am a general of the army now. Even if I retreat, I have to put me in the position of commander of the military region and I will still have a glorious life in the future. It's just these experiments you have done..."

"Are you threatening me?" Qian Zhongtai also laughed.

"That's right, I don't know who is qualified to replace Lao Lu as the Chief of Staff, so I can't be sure whether he will continue to support your scientific research work."

"So, I have no way out?"

"It's not you, but us."

Qian Zhongtai vented his anger and said, "I said you didn't go for nothing. The result came out, but it wasn't very accurate, maybe I couldn't help."

"What is maybe?"

"I won't say much about technical matters, and you won't understand it even if you say it. According to the previous arrangement, it will take until the end of the year to come out the first accurate analysis report, which is also the deadline you gave me."

Huang Zhibo nodded, saying that he did make such arrangements before.

"Now, you want me to come up with an analysis report half a year in advance. It's not that I don't work hard, but that objective conditions do not allow it." Qian Zhongtai paused for a moment and said, "Because the technical strength is limited, especially the computer's running speed is not fast enough, I cannot give you an accurate analysis report. I can only find ways to reduce the difficulty of the calculation. The direct result is that there are great errors in the calculation results."

"What's the meaning?"

"To put it simply, I can't guarantee that the calculation results must be accurate, or that the time of the sunspot explosion will be accurately predicted."

Huang Zhibo frowned and said, "How to say it, there must be a probability."

“Twenty percent.”

"So little?"

"Mr. Huang, this is the best result, and it also includes my personal judgment. Judging from the data obtained alone, there is not even a two-percent accuracy rate."

"Old Qian, you can't let me take a 20% chance to take risks."

"I'm just doing scientific research, not making decisions."

"You..." Huang Zhibo gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, is there any way to improve the accuracy rate?"

"How to improve?" Qian Zhongtai glanced at Huang Zhibo and said, "It's okay to improve, expand the prediction range, rather than limiting it to a certain point in time."

"What's the meaning?"

"It is obviously too difficult for you to ask us to predict sunspot activities on a certain day. If you are predicting a certain week or month, it will be much easier."

“How easy is it?”

"There will definitely be sunspot explosions from the 25th of this month to the fifteenth of the next month, and the intensity is the largest since this century."

“How high is the accuracy?”

"I'm talking about for sure, but I don't know which day it will be."

Now, Huang Zhibo has nothing to say.
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