Chapter 940: Wasn’t it, stabbed in the back?
This outrageous operation by Samsung Offshore Engineering actually disrupted Chang Haonan’s originally planned schedule to a certain extent.
If potential public opinion risks like this cannot be nipped in the bud in advance, once they ferment, it will be difficult to resolve them.
So, throughout late October, he was running around about this matter.
As a result, after finally settling this matter, another even more outrageous job was involved.
In short, although Chang Haonan had left the follow-up processing of the Aegis baseline 7.1 intelligence directly to Fu Youquan, just properly arranging the handover and liaison with Yin Zhongxian took up a lot of his time.
However, the impact of this emergency incident is not entirely negative.
At least, the popularity of Torch Group has increased by more than one level than in the past.
Taking this opportunity, Chang Haonan also asked the publicity department to concentrate their efforts to create a wave of momentum for the upcoming 2.0 version of TORCH Multiphysics.
Especially in the field of computational fluid dynamics, which is currently the most stressful field——
Also due to the delay of Samsung Offshore Engineering, when competitor COMSOL released version 2.5 with huge performance improvements, Chang Haonan did not participate in the comprehensive testing of the software at the first time, and the technical department led by Wei Yongming is now working for Torch Group He was so busy with his own update plan that it was obviously impossible to spare too many manpower.
In the end, we could only focus on the numerical calculation business department that Liu Hongbo was responsible for, and tried to do several projects with the new version of COMSOL Multiphysics, which was a simple way to understand the current development level of our friends.
This led to the fact that in the last few days of late September, COMSOL promotion and advertisements were almost everywhere in the entire computational fluid dynamics circle.
Although Torch Group’s current business volume and the number of reservations for TORCH Multiphysics 2.0 have not been significantly affected by this, as a leader in the industry, it certainly cannot remain indifferent to this.
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When Liu Hongbo and Song Jingming found Chang Haonan together, the latter was in the computer room of the Torch Laboratory, optimizing the image segmentation and target tracking algorithms of the Ocean-1 satellite.
In fact, "processing remote sensing data on the satellite side" is a technical issue that needs to be overcome urgently in the third decade of the 21st century.
With the current level of aerospace-grade hardware at the beginning of the 21st century, it is impossible to complete a very complicated calculation process.
Although according to the wishes of the National Space Administration, this time we only need to make some sense and verify the technical feasibility. We can wait a few years to develop truly functional satellites.
But Chang Haonan felt that there was not completely no room for maneuver.
Because Haiyang-1 is not an ordinary remote sensing satellite.
The core load on it is a marine surveillance system.
Since it is "surveillance" on the ocean, it is naturally impossible to watch everything.
But stare at something important.
Therefore, in an image or a series of images taken by Ocean One, there are only a few specific target areas that people are really interested in.
Therefore, a more realistic idea is actually -
Complete the separation of the image on the satellite side, extract the part of the area where the target may exist, and then transmit it to the ground, and then perform image recognition, positioning, and even understanding .
In this way, the space-borne equipment does not need to bear too high computing intensity, but it can greatly reduce the amount of data transmitted from the sky to the ground, as well as the workload of subsequent ground data processing.
Kill two birds with one stone.
It can not only complete the technical verification task, but also allow Ocean One to perform some functions.
It was originally expected that this work would start in the second half of October, but it was delayed for a while, so the progress was delayed by half a month.
Fortunately, Chang Haonan's timetable was already advanced enough, so This will not affect the launch window of Ocean One.
Liu Hongbo and Song Jingming saw that their boss was busy and did not dare to interrupt immediately. Instead, they waited until Chang Haonan looked up from behind the monitor.
“Mr. Chang.”
Song Jingming took two steps forward:
"We came here this time for the sake of COMSOL..."
He was halfway through his words when Chang Haonan raised his hand to stop him:
"It's not convenient for us to talk about this in the computer room. Go up and chat.”
After finishing speaking, he waited for a few seconds, and after confirming that the test data had been completely imported, he hit the Enter key.
Then he took off his lab coat and returned to the office in the main building with his two subordinates.
As usual, Chang Haonan still listens to technical issues first.
“For this trial, a total of 9 people from our Numerical Computing Business Department were assigned to participate. However, one of them was assigned to an important calculation business midway through the trial, so it was not completed, including myself. In addition, The evaluations of 8 people have been sent to your mailbox.”
Liu Hongbo has now fully adapted to the feeling of being a subordinate to Chang Haonan, and his title has become as smooth as Mr. Chang.
Don’t ask, just ask and it smells really good.
Chang Haonan also opened the office computer at this time, entered the mailbox skillfully, and immediately saw the email sent by Liu Hongbo.
Located in the second position of your inbox.
There is a PDF file attached.
The size is not large.
Even at the Internet speed of 2001, it was downloaded very quickly.
Chang Haonan quickly looked at the computing environment and project introductions mentioned in the 8 people's reports, and frowned slightly:
"These tests... are very mild..."
What he has always wanted to know most is how the other party will solve the problem of high calculation weight in the calculation process of the viscoelastic constitutive equation. Unfortunately it was not covered in these tests.
Liu Hongbo also looked embarrassed at this time:
“Mr. Chang, our numerical calculation business department is not specialized in testing. It can only be regarded as in the process of doing projects. Use it by the way.”
"First of all, most of the projects we have on hand are entrusted by companies and schools with insufficient level, so the difficulty is not high."
"Furthermore, the final calculation results are still responsible to Party A after all. , so even if we encounter a more complex or difficult problem, we don’t dare to try it with unfamiliar software..."
"Oh...that’s the same reason."
Chang Haonan nodded slightly, and then looked at the more detailed evaluation content behind.
It must be admitted that for these relatively common CFD processes, COMSOL Multiphysics2.5 has high computational efficiency and accuracy.
Especially when computer hardware performance is limited, it can even surpass TORCH Multiphysics in some projects.
This is the first time this has happened in the past few years.
“Our opponents are also exerting their strength...”
Chang Haonan said with emotion.
Old developed countries, if you push them hard, they can still come up with something.
Seeing that Liu Hongbo had no intention of continuing the topic, Song Jingming took out a printed "Publicity Plan" from his briefcase:
"Mr. Chang, the idea of the propaganda department is that computing software In fact, it is difficult to objectively reflect the efficiency of one or more data, and if we engage in Chunqiu calligraphy, it will be suspected of false propaganda, and in the long run we will be damaging our own brand.”
“So, next. Publicity in the CFD field should focus on other aspects. For example, compared to competitors whose main users are universities and research institutions, our software is more proven in the commercial field. We can focus on some that have the participation of TORCH Multiphysics and have a greater impact. "For example, we have negotiated terms with Ferrari...not the Ferrari that builds machine tools, but the Ferrari that cooperates with us to develop racing cars, and we will hold a season race in December. At the end of the opening day, a special racing livery containing elements of our company will be designed to celebrate their fourth consecutive team championship.”
In this timeline, Ferrari won it as early as 1998. When it came to the constructors' championship, it has never lost this honor to anyone since.
The Torch Group's LOGO has been occupying the second most dazzling position on the side of its racing car for the past four years.
Furthermore, Torch Group has also participated to a considerable extent in the research and development of racing cars in the past three years through the Jinling Research Center.
In short, it is indeed an excellent promotional material.
Chang Haonan is relatively relieved about the work that Song Jingming is handling.
Since he was transferred to the Aviation Power Group, all non-technical daily work of Torch Group Technology has been presided over by the former.
In more than two years, there has never been any major trouble.
So, seeing this plan, Chang Haonan felt a lot more relaxed.
Brand effect is generally a weapon used by European and American companies to suppress Chinese companies.
But in numerical calculations, the situation is exactly the opposite.
Torch Group is definitely a golden brand.
Chang Haonan rubbed his swollen eyebrows with one hand, and prepared to close the browser page with the other hand.
However, at this moment, he suddenly remembered the email that was ranked above Liu Yongbo just now.
According to the rules, that email should have been received a short time ago.
So, he stopped and clicked into his inbox again.
On closer inspection, I discovered that the email actually came from Dassault.
There are actually a lot of contacts between the two companies, but not many can openly use the email channel.
In fact, there is only the Falcon Z business jet project...
After clicking on it, sure enough, it was a report on the design optimization of the Falcon Z business jet.
Not important content.
In fact, it is something that is sent to all the people in charge for backup.
No need to even reply.
Therefore, Chang Haonan just pulled the email page to the bottom and had no intention of downloading the attachment.
However, a file in the attachment list piqued his interest.
Strictly speaking, it is the extension of this file.
.
cmph
“Hiss...”
Chang Haonan’s eyelids jumped——
Since the .mph extension has been occupied by TORCHMultiphysics, similar products from COMSOL The extension has to be set to .cmph...
In other words.
He seemed...
Being stabbed in the back...
(End of Chapter)