latelenovela Chapter 546: Let Professor Pierre become the spokesperson for Nanhua Computer?
Chapter 546: Let Professor Pierre become the spokesperson for Nanhua Computer?
Let’s talk about the Scientific Computing Center of the University of South China.
The "computer time" here is naturally an extremely valuable resource.
All outstanding students authorized by the professor are only allowed half an hour per week.
Lecturers and assistant professors have two hours, and full professors have no more than five hours.
Even so, the reservation system is always full. In order to compete for a "prime time" opportunity to use the computer, professors even staged table-slamming and glaring fights in private. The elegance of the academic world has disappeared in the face of the temptation of "Pangu".
Only Professor Pierre, with his dual identities as a core member of the "Huanghong" project and a distinguished professor at the University of South China, has the highest and unrestricted authority.
He can come anytime and use it as long as he wants.
This is not only Zhang Chi's recognition of his value, but also a disguised form of winning over and "work benefits."
Because the "Pangu II" at the "Huanghong" base is a national treasure, it is absolutely not allowed to be used for any calculations other than atomic bomb research and development.
Therefore, Pierre and his Gallic colleagues could only record other sparks of inspiration in theoretical physics, complex conjectures that needed to be verified, or in-depth calculations on some basic physics problems in the leather notebook he carried with him, and patiently wait until his weekly visit to the University of South China, and then input them all into "Pangu-1" to seek answers that exceeded the limits of the human brain.
Of course, the answer is not '42'.
Pierre walked to an empty terminal, sat down, and turned it on skillfully.
The green screen lit up and the cursor flashed.
He adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose, took out the thick notebook from the inside pocket of his suit, and turned to the latest page.
It is densely packed with formulas, parameters and complex integral expressions that need to be calculated.
These calculations, if performed manually using a mechanical computer or hand-cranked calculator, could take a skilled calculator several days or even weeks and are prone to errors.
He took a deep breath, moved his fingers, and began typing data and formulas one by one on the keyboard according to the specific instruction format.
Being of a certain age, his movements were a little awkward, not as smooth as those of the young students next to him, but accurate enough.
As the last Enter key was pressed hard, the characters on the screen disappeared instantly and the cursor turned into a static square.
Pierre held his breath and stared at the screen intently.
Time seemed to be stretched out.
After only a few seconds—perhaps only three or five seconds—on the dark green screen, as if an oracle had appeared, lines of clear and accurate calculation results scrolled rapidly.
This was the answer he had been thinking about for a long time and had spent countless efforts to verify.
Professor Pierre leaned forward slightly, his eyes behind the glasses widened as he stared at the jumping numbers.
He subconsciously reached into his arms and touched his pipe - this was a thinking habit he developed in Chundu - but as soon as his fingers touched the cold briar, he remembered the strict no-smoking rule here.
He could only clutch his pipe tightly in his pocket, a complex, indescribable feeling welling up in his heart. Was it shock? Was it ecstasy? Was it... a deep sense of powerlessness?
The field in which he had spent half his life, the mysteries of the physical world that required exhaustive wisdom to deduce and countless time and patience to calculate, had become so... "easy" in front of this steel creation called "Pangu"?
The efficiency gap lies between tradition and modernity like a natural chasm.
Pierre slowly leaned back in his chair, took off his glasses, and rubbed his brows tiredly.
Looking at the Nanyang teachers and students around him who were immersed in the powerful computing power of "Pangu", looking at the expressions on their faces that took it for granted and made full use of the tools, and then thinking about his colleagues in Chundu who were still arguing over an old hand-cranked mechanical computer, Pierre felt a strong emotion, almost jealousy, in his heart for the first time.
"No." A thought flashed through his mind in an instant, extremely clear and firm, "Gaul... The motherland needs this, no matter what the cost." He quickly took out a pen and wrote furiously on his notebook at the console in the computing center, in the dim light of the screen.
This was an urgent letter to his old friend in China, a senior academician who held an important position in the science and technology department of the Provisional Government of Gaul.
In the letter, he described the epoch-making significance of the Pangu supercomputer and its terrifying computing power in the most earnest and urgent tone, and elaborated on its extreme importance to basic scientific research, engineering applications and even national strategic security.
He strongly suggested that Gaul should immediately and immediately make a purchase request to the United States of Southeast Asia at all costs, even if it meant using up its precious gold and foreign exchange reserves. He even hinted that if one machine could be introduced, it would greatly boost Gaul's shaky technological status and national confidence.
This is exactly the situation that Zhang Chi expected to see when he set up the game so that Pierre could "freely" use Pangu-1.
On Zhang Chi's strategic chessboard, Pangu-1 and even Pangu-2 were already older generation products, considered "too outdated to be used for display." Their value lay not only in serving domestic scientific research and core projects, but also as cutting-edge products for foreign trade.
They take advantage of the huge technological gap to form a monopoly and severely reap the benefits of countries that urgently need technological upgrades.
At that time, they would exchange it with gold, precision machine tools that Nanyang urgently needs, special alloy technology, or some of their hidden patents. As for the price... it must naturally be worthy of Pangu's "uniqueness in the world" and "epoch-making significance."
Zhang Chi was very clear that with the electronic industry and theoretical foundations of Western countries at that time, even if they got the actual "Pangu-1", it would be difficult to imitate it in a short period of time.
By the time they succeed in copying it, the "Pangu III" or even the "Pangu IV" will probably have been released, and its computing speed may be ten or a hundred times faster than that of Pangu. By then, Nanyang will be able to use the newer generation of "backward technology" to reap another wave of gold and foreign exchange.
After all, Zhang Chi, who had witnessed what technology dumping was in later generations, knew very well that the highest level of technological blockade is never to hide it, but to actively sell the previous generation of products that are about to be eliminated, so as to make huge profits and let the opponents consume resources in catching up with outdated technologies.
When the other party's products, which they have spent a lot of effort to imitate, are beaten by the new dumping products and are unable to recover their losses in the market, the dumpers can always stay one or two generations ahead while draining the blood of the dumped products.
This is the "technological scissors gap" strategy that Zhang Chi first proposed on this blue water planet to maintain Nanyang's absolute leading position in computer technology.
Professor Pierre is the first "big customer" of Nanyang Computer. What Zhang Chi wants is to serve him well and let him spread word of mouth back to Europe.
After all, Gaul and Southeast Asia are both not very "loyal" allies around the White Eagle, and there is still a lot in common between the two.