Chapter 1001 Promoting Hardware Development with Software Advantages
Because the facts were too clear, the small episode when the results were released quickly subsided.
However, the aftertaste of this episode will reverberate for a long time...
The next day is the official opening of the conference.
Since the number of participants in this conference far exceeded everyone's expectations, the double-layer conference hall that was booked from the beginning could not be fully accommodated.
So much so that some "less important" people need to be moved to other rooms in the same building, and then watch the meeting through the closed-circuit television system -
in the scene, but not quite there.
Later, after the Beijing Foreign Liaison Office joined the planning work, it even offered to help coordinate a gymnasium as the main venue.
However, under the strong protest of Zhu Yadan and other security comrades, this plan was dropped -
As the initiator, main sponsor and special guest of the entire event, Chang Hao Nan needs to sit in the first three separate rows with the other twenty important people.
Or strictly speaking, the middle of the first row.
As an academic conference, you cannot set up a three-step, one-post, five-step, and one-post peripheral inspection.
So the more people there are in the central venue, the greater the pressure for them.
Now these hundreds of numbers are still within control.
If there are really thousands or even thousands of people at the same venue, then you will have to apply for additional measures from above...
In short, the entire plan remained unchanged in the end.
However, this also brought an unexpected benefit.
It is the distance between people that has been physically shortened...
"Professor Jameson, good morning!"
Chang Haonan almost didn't With little effort, Anthony Jameson was found among the crowd.
The latter was wearing a peaked cap with the brim lowered deliberately. He was not sitting in his seat, but was standing against the wall.
It seems that he doesn’t want to be noticed too early.
But with Chang Haonan's specially raised voice, the eyes of everyone around him were still attracted...
"Uh...Professor Chang, good morning."
Seeing this, Jameson knew that he could no longer hide, so he had no choice but to step forward and shake hands with Chang Haonan.
Compared with his high-spirited appearance a few days ago, his face looked a little haggard at this time, and even his hair seemed to be getting grayer...
"Is your body recovering well?"
< br>Chang Haonan’s expression of concern showed no sign of fakeness, and his tone was also full of sincerity——
It was specially rehearsed last night.
If this scene is seen by an uninformed person, one would sigh with emotion like "the inheritance of two eras".
But Jameson's inner pain is only known to him...
"It's okay...it's okay..."
Jameson's body actually has nothing to recover from.
But the mental trauma is hard to say.
“The opening ceremony is about to begin, let’s go to the special guest seats.”
Chang Haonan enthusiastically dragged Jameson towards the center of the venue.
While walking, he said:
"I specially asked the conference team to arrange a seat in the middle of the first row for you..."
"..."
In fact, after Hertz learned that the final result was going to collapse, he immediately bought a ticket and flew back to the United States to prepare for the funeral arrangements...
Uh... the aftermath.
Even Jameson himself briefly thought of running away from the meeting due to illness.
This is why he claimed to be ill last night and chose not to participate in the event.
However, after a night of fighting between heaven and man, I finally gave up this idea.
Too bad.
The attendees are all top practitioners, and they all live in concentrated places.
One pass to ten, ten to a hundred.
By the end of the meeting at the latest, everyone will know exactly what happened.
In this case, let alone claiming to be sick.
Even if you are really sick and unable to attend, others will see it as a complete evasion of responsibility.
From now on, I no longer need to hang out in academic circles.
On the contrary, if you face the reality, then this matter is nothing more than a research loophole.
At best, it’s just marketing failure, which is very embarrassing.
But who among those engaged in research has not been embarrassed?
As for commercializing imperfect technology...
That was a wrong decision made by COMSOL, and it had nothing to do with Jameson himself.
It’s amazing that he returned the funds given by the other party...
However, psychological construction belongs to psychological construction.
When I actually sat at the venue, it was a completely different story.
Any glance from anyone next to him can make Jameson feel something strange in his eyes.
And any two people getting together to discuss in a low voice will also make him guess whether they are making up a discussion about themselves...
In short, it is really on pins and needles in the literal sense.
So much so, that when the opening ceremony finally got to the part where the competition results were announced, Jameson even felt a little relieved...
Anyway, extending one's head is as much as shrinking one's head.
Then why not make this knife come faster...
...
As the athletes’ march played, the curtain in front of the conference hall began to release detailed information about the winning teams one by one according to their rankings.
According to general practice, the top three will receive trophies, certificates and medals, while the fourth to eighth will only receive one certificate.
Considering that everyone is a decent person, we did not release the results and rankings of all the teams on site like last night.
Of course, it’s just not available on site.
Similar to the situation in the preliminary round, all competition results can be seen on the website, including the engineering documents submitted by each participating team.
For a small and small circle like numerical computing, the speed at which information is disseminated through the Internet is not even as fast as word of mouth...
Although there were only ten people last night Several special guests witnessed the release of results and the subsequent spot checks of the results.
But in just one night, this matter is no longer a secret...
Of course, there are always some people who are not well-informed. "Speaking of which, how come Stanford University, which ranked first in the preliminary rounds, didn't even make it into the top eight in the finals?"
A participant dressed as a student asked quietly to his companion next to him.
"You don't know?"
The latter showed a somewhat surprised expression:
"Not only did he not make the top 8, Stanford had no results at all in the end..."
"Huh?"
The questioner was shocked:
"How...how could this happen?"
Stanford has always been at the top of the nation in the field of numerical computing, plus Due to the dazzling preliminary results, many people regard it as the favorite for the top three.
“Then I’m not sure...but numerical calculations require luck and experience. Anything can happen...”
The person being asked was obviously not a well-rounded person and did not know the whole story.
Fortunately, at this time, another person next to me also jumped in:
“I heard when I was eating this morning that not only Stanford, but also all calculations in this finals were done with COMSOL. All the groups failed to produce results... It seems that the two-phase flow calculation will trigger a certain BUG in their software, resulting in no results at all..."
"You are..."
< br>"Oh, I'm just a little person, you probably haven't heard of it..."
"Oh..."
The other two didn't seem to take it too seriously.
As a result, the other party changed the subject:
"But the big boss of our laboratory is Suhas Patankar..."
"Oh?"
With such a relationship, the credibility of the statement just now is suddenly different.
"Two-phase flow is a very important part of CFD calculations. If there are serious bugs in this aspect, then the actual stability of COMSOL... may not be optimistic..."
"But the preliminary round..."
"The questions in the preliminary round were simple, and they were lucky enough to get the part they were best at, but in the final the problem was exposed..."
"... ”
Similar conversations are taking place in many places at the same time inside and outside the venue.
Even the award ceremony going on on the stage seemed a bit bleak in comparison -
It was just an award, not for myself.
Why is eating melon so important?
Moreover, after countless rounds of transmission, the content of the message has become obviously out of shape.
In fact, the calculation vulnerability of COMSOL is only likely to be triggered under certain circumstances with high calculation weight.
Otherwise, Chang Haonan wouldn’t have to go to great lengths to set up such a game, and even “customized” a question for them.
But just one night later, the version everyone heard has become "COMSOL cannot do two-phase flow calculations."
This is something that even Chang Haonan, the instigator, did not expect...
Anyway.
At least in the foreseeable future, COMSOL has completely lost its qualifications to serve on the table...
Most people did not even notice when the award ceremony ended.
It wasn’t until Chang Haonan began to announce Torch Group’s new plan for the next five years that everyone’s attention was drawn back to the stage.
After COMSOL was actually eliminated, considering that ANSYS did not intend to challenge the Torch Group in a large field, but chose to cultivate deeply in the chemical industry application, it will be quite promising in the future. Over a long period of time, the entire numerical calculation will return to the state of being dominated by one company between 1997 and 2000.
For users, this may not be a good thing.
Therefore, everyone is also paying attention to what actions the Torch Group will make later.
“First of all, TORCMultiphysics will launch a new version 2.0, and convert the past 1.0 professional version into an educational version, permanently providing unlimited free trials to student groups around the world.”
As soon as Chang Haonan came up, he threw out a king bomb.
TORCHMultiphysics, of course, had an educational version in the past, but it was based on the public beta version of that year. The functions were very imperfect and the interface UI was basically at the level of 1998, and the user experience was extremely poor.
It is precisely this problem that allows COMSOL to retain a considerable part of the market among research institutions and universities.
And now the 1.0 professional version has been converted to the educational version, which is equivalent to directly blocking the way for latecomers to learn COMSOL.
Of course, the educational version is literally for educational purposes only.
If you want to use software to publish research results, you still have to buy or rent a genuine version.
On the other hand, this also means that the improvements in version 2.0 must be obvious enough.
Otherwise, users who have spent money to use version 1.0 for several years may not agree.
And this is exactly what Chang Haonan is going to say next:
“The upgrade of version 2.0 focuses on introducing a new method for interfaces with drastic changes in topology, including multi-phase interface simulation and topology optimization problems. The conserved level set method, and in response to the increasingly refined aerodynamic design requirements, propose a new and more accurate turbulence model, which can more stably describe the movement of fluid microclusters under high flow rate conditions..."
“I will elaborate on these two specific technical issues in a report later...”
“…”
TORCHMultiphysics2.0 The release of the version was something that had been announced long before the conference.
However, at that time, COMSOL Multiphysics version 2.5 was in the limelight, and everyone generally believed that this would be a frontal expansion caused by a comet hitting the earth.
Unexpectedly, it ended up being a unilateral sweep of the battlefield by the Torch Group.
Didn’t you see that they also specifically mentioned the upgrade to deal with the two-phase flow problem...
It’s totally a whipping corpse.
On the stage, Chang Haonan's speech was still not over.
"In the past few years, we have also received a lot of feedback from users, and the issues focus on the compatibility of 3D models and meshing. To this end, Torch Group has reached an agreement with Dassault Systèmes and Kompas. Jointly promote the seamless connection between the fields of CAD modeling and numerical calculation..."
"In addition, three years ago, Torch Group teamed up with Sugon Group to launch Shuguang, which is more suitable for the hardware level of TORCH Multiphysics software. The 1000T supercomputer and server cluster have achieved a pretty good response.”
“However, because the computing power of Sugon Computer itself was relatively average at the time, the advantage of this combination was mainly in cost-effectiveness rather than performance. ”
“But with the development of the Sugon series supercomputing performance, we will also continue this business model of hardware adaptation software, and plan to launch the specially optimized Sugon 3000T within the year. The computing efficiency is compared with Sugon 3000. The TORCH Multiphysics Dawn Edition is one-third higher and has richer features than the professional version..."
"..."
When his speech ended, the entire audience burst into thunderous applause.
As the final winner of this round of competition, Chang Haonan did not mention anything that worried everyone the most, such as price increases or new payment models.
And it is almost entirely discussing the further development of numerical simulation technology.
Many users have already taken out their notebooks and written down the name Shuguang Group, preparing to investigate the specific situation when they return.
As for the representatives of Shuguang Group sitting at the special sponsor’s table and the representatives of the Ministry of Science and Technology sitting at the special guest’s table, they couldn’t hold back their smiles——
On the surface, this is just a collaboration between two companies.
But in fact, as the revenue of supercomputing and server businesses continues to increase, Sugon Group can continue to feed back to almost the entire upstream on the basis of solving its own development problems.
Especially the semiconductor manufacturing industry, which has been almost strangled in its infancy since the 1980s.
Although it is still in the process of purchasing foreign equipment and raw materials for simple OEM, in any case, the entire chain from research and development to commercialization has been rebuilt.
This is almost a breakthrough from 0 to 1!
(End of this chapter)