After evacuating the knowledge reserves of the Department of Materials Science's laboratory, Duke set his sights on the Nuclear Laboratory.

However, it is not as simple as the material science laboratory for vacancies, because the essence of the nuclear laboratory is placed in a giant.

When Duke first entered MIT's nuclear laboratory, another PhD student, Professor Andrew, was already waiting there.

"Dr. Duke, welcome to the Nuclear Laboratory. My name is Hewitt. Professor Andrew told me to take you to get to know the laboratory environment today." Hewitt, from Illinois, USA, wore a golden-edged glasses, curly brown hair like waves, and wearing casual denim suits. He looked more like an artist than a scientist.

"Thank you. I'm sorry for you today." Duke thanked politely. Judging from Hewitt's expression, it's not enthusiastic, but it's definitely not indifferent. Treating Duke is like treating an ordinary person, as if he has never heard of Duke just won the Turing Award, being indifferent, with more artists than scientists. This is Duke's first feeling for Dr. Hewitt.

Compared with the laboratories in the Department of Materials, most nuclear laboratories do not see all kinds of instruments everywhere, but they look very neat. However, most of these are offices with computers. Hewitt explained who the office is, including where Professor Andrew and his own office is, and even Duke has a separate office.

Duke felt that the difference was not very big with the company office outside, and he couldn't tell at all.

Seeing Duke seemingly disappointed, Hewitt smiled slightly, "Actually, the ones I just watched are just the offices of the daily work of all professors and doctors. Today I will take you around so that you can find them in the future. The place not far ahead is the highlight of our visit today."

Sure enough, Hewitt took Duke into a huge room. To be precise, it was a hall, but it was full of dense cabinets.

"This is our computing center. At this moment, the most powerful supercomputer system on the world's university campuses is in it." Hewitt rarely showed a little passion along the way. At this moment, he couldn't help but explain proudly when he saw these cabinets.

"This is the Titan II supercomputer system tailored by Cray for the MIT Computing Center in 2012. This is a new system derived from the Cray Jaguar supercomputer architecture. However, compared with the old version, the number of physical CPUs equipped is greatly reduced, almost only a little more than one-third of the Jaguar.

However, since the CPU upgraded from the original Amd Istanbul 6 core to the terramar processor, the main 20 core launched by Amd in 2012, the number of real computing cores has increased a lot. From more than 1.2 million to more than 2 million, the performance has increased by nearly ten times compared to the Jaguars, and the stable computing speed has reached 15 petaflops (i.e. 150 million times per second).

The cost of the entire system is only US$35 million, which is good and cheap.

In this system, there are now nuclear fusion reaction and nuclear fission reaction simulation systems used by our nuclear laboratory, as well as experimental programs such as complex galaxy formation simulation systems in other physics disciplines, plasma fusion reactor simulation systems and global climate simulation systems.

It can be said that this is the core location of MIT's physics research, and this system is also the essence of our research."

This is the first time Duke has seen a real supercomputer up close. He has seen the Chinese Tianhe series supercomputer from the news before, but it was seen on TV screens. I forgot it after watching it, and I didn’t feel anything at all.

At this moment, I saw a real supercomputer in front of me. The first feeling that came to me was that it was large and large in scale. Compared with Duke's original small computer computer system, Duke felt that it was at least 500 square meters in the hall. It was worthy of being a supercomputer. This figure alone made people respect it.

"Dr. Hewitt, I didn't see any screen or workbench that can be operated. Is the operating interface in another place?" Duke observed for a while and finally saw the problem.

"This is the computer room of the computing center. As for the operation terminal, it is on the office computers of all professors and doctors." Hewitt replied.

"Oh, I understand." Duke then understood why every office has a set of computers. In addition to office, it also has the function of directly operating this supercomputer system.

"Can my office computer connect to this system now?" Duke continued.

"I really don't know much about this, but you are a student of Professor Andrew. Even if you don't have it for the time being, you can apply to the Computing Center. Look, the application process is here." Hewitt continued to bring Duke to a next to an application guide posted on the wall.

The process is very simple. The computing center has an authority application system. Duke can apply on it, then the tutor approval, and then the laboratory director approval. After passing, the authority will be opened by the computing center through these two barriers.

"How about it? Do you have any thoughts after reading this supercomputer system?" Hewitt said to Duke with interesting interest. It can be seen that this system is his love in his heart. His originally calm temperament immediately became a little passionate when he arrived here.

"It's so big." Duke said the truth.

"Haha, it's really big." Hewitt couldn't help laughing when he heard the simple comment of Duke, "After you use it, you realize that its performance is far beyond your imagination. Since the Computing Center updated its computer system and completed the installation of the Titan II, our laboratory's research results next year will be more than one-third more than before.

Among them, there are both improvements in R&D ideas and the contribution of this supercomputer system, because the simulation computing speed is hundreds of times faster than the previous system.

I originally wanted a simulation test that took a month to get the calculation results, but now the results can be produced in a few hours, which greatly improves our R&D capabilities. If we want to select the most popular people in the nuclear laboratory, I think most people will vote for the Titan Ii."
Chapter completed!