Chapter 198: I have never fought such a rich battle
Listening to Xu You's words, Qiao Sen also nodded in affirmation.
"Yes, using supercomputers can indeed greatly improve computing efficiency."
In today's world, the most advanced supercomputers can perform calculations in the hundreds of trillions of times per second.
Such high computing efficiency just meets Xu You's needs.
This time, Xu You no longer needs to ask Wang Xiangwu for help to get the supercomputer.
After all, the electricity bill this time is definitely more than last time.
With Xing Shuping's ability, he must have had access to supercomputers.
After Qiao Sen told Xing Shuping about Xu You's idea, Xing Shuping invited Xu You and Qiao Sen to meet again for a detailed discussion.
When they arrived at Xing Shuping's office, Xing Shuping treated Xu You and Qiao Sen to good tea.
"Xu You, I have to say, this is really an incredible idea! I don't know how you came up with the idea of applying software modeling to the search for superconductors!"
Xing Shuping looked very excited. For someone with so much experience, there were few things that could make him so excited.
At this time, Xing Shuping really had hope of finding a new high-temperature superconductor with a higher critical temperature.
"Academician Xing, during the testing process, the accuracy of the software simulation prediction was still very high. But because the amount of data is too large, we still hope to use supercomputers to help with the calculations."
"Well, that's no problem. I'll help you make the contact. Of course, before that we need to optimize the program for the supercomputer and estimate the time and cost required. As long as the plan is feasible, we will do our best to help you complete it."
After that, Xing Shuping used his connections to find the person in charge of the supercomputing center, and they discussed various matters related to using supercomputing for calculations.
Xu You also needs to optimize the software programs for the supercomputer system.
And for Xu You now, this is also a job within his ability.
After completing the software testing in the supercomputer, the first batch of calculations officially began.
Although the first batch only selected a few basic elements, and the number of each atom was also limited to a relatively small number.
However, because the amount of data is still very large, even if a supercomputer is used for calculation, it still takes a long time and consumes extremely huge amounts of electricity.
Of course, due to the special nature of this project, many fees were reduced.
And after receiving the calculated results.
Xu You, Qiao Sen and Xing Shuping were all very shocked.
“I actually calculated hundreds of superconducting materials!”
These materials that are believed to have superconducting properties are those that are predicted to have a probability of more than 99.99% of being able to superconduct in software simulations.
If the software's simulation degree is indeed very high.
This will undoubtedly be big news that will shock the whole world.
In the past, even the discovery of a superconducting material was enough to publish a paper in a top journal.
If we publish a paper on each of these hundreds of superconducting materials.
It is entirely possible to buy several issues of Nature.
Of course, compared to all the billions of species involved in the calculation.
The discovery of hundreds of superconducting materials is not particularly surprising.
In addition to the discovery of so many new materials that may have superconducting properties.
Behind them, the predicted superconducting critical temperature is also indicated.
Among them, some are relatively low, close to absolute zero.
Some are quite high, reaching tens of K or even over 100K.
"Hundreds of superconducting materials... I've never fought such a rich battle before!"
The sudden surprise made them not know what to do next.
If you only predict one or a few, it's actually very simple.
All we need to do is directly prepare these materials and then test their superconducting properties.
However, if there are hundreds of substances, the workload required to prepare and measure them all would be extremely enormous.
Xu You quickly calmed down and began to look for the material with the highest superconducting critical temperature among these materials that may have superconducting properties.
"Academician Xing, Teacher Qiao, look, there's a 150K one here!"
Following Xu You's finger, both of them saw this substance with a very complex molecular formula.
Compared with the copper oxide with the highest known superconducting critical temperature at normal pressure, which reaches 138K, the molecular formula is even more .
However, the superconducting critical temperature has increased by as much as 12K.
"Academician Xing, my suggestion is to first select the materials with the highest superconducting critical temperature and try to prepare them. If the preparation is successful, we can measure the superconducting properties to verify the accuracy of our software model. If the first few are not easy to prepare, we will then make the next step in the order of superconducting critical temperature."
Xu You knew that even if the accuracy of the software simulation was high enough, it did not mean that these molecular structures could be synthesized.
There is still a long way to go before we can break through the critical temperature of superconductivity.
Next, Xing Shuping will assign the selected substances to various material experts and start the material preparation work.
Xu You is not professional in material preparation, but for the purpose of learning, Xu You still actively participates in the work of material preparation.
The difficulty of preparing a material like this with a large number of unknown atoms can be imagined.
Many unexpected problems also occurred during the preparation process.
This has slowed down the progress of this work.
And during this period.
Xu You received an email from .
"The US-China Academic Exchange Committee?"
After seeing the sender of the email, Xu You searched for the organization.
This is an academic organization initiated by the U.S. Academy of Sciences and other institutions.
Its purpose is to promote academic exchanges between Chinese and American academic groups.
Afterwards, Xu You read the contents of the email.
The main purpose of the email was to invite Xu You to the United States for academic exchanges, and hoped that Xu You could explain in detail his theory of high-temperature superconductivity mechanism.
Xu You didn't know whether this was really an invitation from that organization.
But no matter what, Xu You would definitely refuse this invitation.
Let Xu You go to the United States at this time...
Not to mention that it will delay the progress of the project.
If you really go there, it’s a question whether you can come back.
Xu You did not rush to reply to the email, but informed Qiao Sen of the news first.
"Teacher Qiao, I received an email from the US-China Academic Exchange Committee."
