<h4>Chapter 336: Computational Chemistry Weapon!</h4>
<strong>Trantor: </strong>Henyee Trantions <strong>Editor: </strong>Henyee Trantions
Any schr would be ecstatic after hearing their request being epted.
After all, supeputers were very expensive, even renting one wasn’t cheap. David’s favor was simr to millions or even tens of millions of dors being saved. In contrast, the only thing David wanted was to put the name of his research institute on the thesis.
When Lu Zhou heard David’s insignificant request, he was pleasantly surprised.
Compared with profitable applicable research, theoretical research was definitely a money burning machine.
Lu Zhou obviously didn’t refuse David’s offer.
He nodded and said, “Done.”
...
In some sense, Lu Zhou choosing Anton to carry out this experiment was inevitable.
A normal supeputer couldn’t perform molecr dynamics simtions efficiently.
However, Anton was different, each chip was dedicated toputational chemistry.
It had a total of 512pute nodes, which could achieve 17,000 simtions per day of protein-water systems, consisting of 23,558 atoms.
In contrast, a general-purpose supeputer with the same number of processors could only reach hundreds of simtions per day.
Because of this, Anton was named “the weapon ofputational chemistry”.
David was an absolute genius.
He was knowledgeable in finance, parallelputing, and in polymer chemistry.
Unfortunately, Anton was too expensive; most research institutions simply couldn’t afford to rent it. Otherwise, the Nobel Prizemittee might even consider nominating him for a prize.
It would be simr to the biologist, Jacques Duboche, who was nominated for the 2017 Chemistry Prize for cryo-electron microscopy...
After Jerick drove Lu Zhou back to Princeton, Lu Zhou sent an application to Princeton to request for a month-long schr visit at Columbia University.
Columbia obviously weed Lu Zhou’s visit with arms wide open. They even arranged a temporary dormitory for him in the vicinity of the institute.
Theoretical research that did not involve patents was always easier to reach cooperation agreements than the research in the application field.
This was especially so for people like Lu Zhou and David who didn’t need any money.
After signing a cooperative research agreement which outlined the duties of both parties, the experiment would soon begin.
David showed great interest in the coborative research project.
Not only did he adjust his original ns for his experiment to amodate for Lu Zhou, but the entire workforce of the D.E Shaw Research Institute was put into Lu Zhou’s project.
Lu Zhou soon witnessed Anton’sbat power.
On the day of the experiment, Anton Super Center.
A massive parallelputing project was about to begin.
Lu Zhou and David stood behind as they watched the experiment.
“Experiment Group 1 is in ce!”
“Experiment Group 2 is in ce!”
“...”
“Begin the experiment!”
The blue signal lights were constantly shing.
In the digital world, Anton used its powerfulputing power to simte the mathematical model provided by Lu Zhou.
The first experimentsted for nine hours!
Unfortunately, the results of the experiment were not ideal.
David looked at the experiment report given by the engineer of the supeputing center, and he frowned while saying, “Your mathematical model is tooplicated... Is there a way to simplify it?”
Lu Zhou shook his head and said, “I tried to simplify it, but it was very difficult.”
He would’ve simplified it if it was possible; he wouldn’t have waited until now to simplify it.
David rubbed his chin and began to think. After a while, he said, “Then I guess we have toe up with another solution.”
David was not an expert in the field of mathematics. He could not simplifyplicated mathematical equations. However, attacking this problem from a parallelputing perspective, it was theoretically possible to improve Anton’s calctions by adjusting the software.
Lu Zhou said, “Thank you.”
“No worries,” David waved his hand and said in a joking tone, “at least your mathematical model is in the scope of Anton’s abilities. If it were any moreplicated, I’m afraid we would need a quantumputer.”
...
Lu Zhou’s visit to Columbia University was not something that needed to be kept secret. Because he frequently visited the D.E Shaw Institute, the news quickly spread across the campus of Columbia University.
Many people were curious about this Crafoord Prize and Adams Chemistry Prize winner who was only in his twenties. Very few people could make such outstanding achievements at such a young age, especially in two fields— mathematics and chemistry.
Of course, Columbia students weren’t the most interested in Lu Zhou. The one that would be most interested in him was his opponent in the field of lithium-sulfur batteries: Mobil Chemical.
They heard the news about Lu Zhou and was nervous as hell.
Not to mention, it was such a big piece of news...
Binghamton University, Institute of Materials Science.
Woods, who just finished a meeting in New York, immediately came over to Binghamton.
“Bad news! Lu Zhou found David Shaw to borrow a supeputer!”
Stanley wasn’t surprised about the news that Woods had provided, and he asked, “Is it fine for you toe to theboratory every two days?”
Stanley was obviously saying that there was no reason for Woods toe all the way here; Woods could have just called Stanley.
“I’ll do anything as long as we win the race,” Woods said.
He sat on the sofa in theboratory and sighed before he said, “F*ck sake! How did Lu Zhou suddenly find David Shaw, how?”
If Lu Zhou coborated with otherboratories, Exxon Mobil could use its own influence to put pressure on theboratories’ funding partners, thus dying their progress.
But David Shaw was an exception; this guy was a famous Wall Street freak who waspletely disinterested in money.
“This is normal. One of them is doingputational materials, the other is doingputational chemistry. It’s not surprising for them to get in bed together.” Professor Stanley stood in front of the scanning electron microscope while he waited for results of the experiment. He said rxingly, “In fact, there is no need to be so nervous. Whether it is a perfect mathematical form or a theoretical model, if it cannot be implemented in the experiment, it is useless.”
<i>Who cares if your mathematics is nutty?</i>
<i>Who cares if you borrowed a supeputer?</i>
<i>Computer simtion experiments are indeed a promising method, but in the end, it has to be implemented in experiments.</i>
<i>From trial and error, adding up the experience is the only way for materials science experiments.</i>
Fortunately, Stanley already knew the answer, so he only had to figure out the working steps.
Woods asked, “I want to know how far are we from the finish line?”
Stanley stared at the molecr model on the screen and smiled.
“We are close!”