For a laboratory, different stages of development have different needs.

For example, in the Future Biology Laboratory, when there were only Tian Lu, Xia Ruo, Huang Qiaoqiao and an experimental technician, it was enough to simply use some small experimental equipment. With those simple equipment, Tian Lu can use the excuse of "accident" to discover his first pot of gold.

But when Tian Lu received the first $50 million from Nofi, he could never be satisfied with the rudimentary experimental conditions.

In the same way, when last year's one-time income exceeded 2 billion US dollars, Tian Lu of course had to buy buildings, decoration, equipment, poach people, and invest, and threw out more than one billion in one go!

What's more, the fixed cost of the Future Biolab is now approaching $100 million a year!

That's an unusually staggering number!

If compared with the hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars of funds of those top scientific research institutions in the United States, of course, 100 million US dollars is not much, but if it is compared with domestic scientific research institutions, this figure is really amazing!

But in Tian Lu's mind, this is not enough!

In his opinion, the more the laboratory can spend money, the stronger its own strength is, and the more it will gain in the future! After all, if there is Tian Lu, there is no need to consider the input-output ratio at all, but it is necessary to consider whether it has the strength to carry out so many projects.

Supercomputers are one of the necessary tools for the laboratory of the future.

Surely not now. But if the laboratory can go on according to Tian Lu's plan, at least five or six years, or at most seven or eight years, it will develop to a point where others can't imagine, and at that time, when the laboratory really has strong strength, Tian Lu will start some real large-scale research.

Research projects that require thousands of people to work together will also have an astonishing amount of data to process, which would be seriously delayed if there were only ordinary computers, only supercomputers. Even a slightly lower supercomputer will be able to do it!

It was impossible for Tian Lu to wait until that time to think about it.

I chatted with Professor Henry for just half an hour. Tian Lu was completely dead set on customizing supercomputers from abroad, so he had no choice but to buy them in China.

But......

The shortcomings of domestic supercomputer application research are only one aspect, and as Professor Henry said, Tian Lu is willing to invest a large amount of money in the early stage to fund it. Presumably, this disadvantage can also make up for a lot. But the key thing is. Even in China, Tian Lu's qualifications to buy supercomputers are a big problem!

If in the U.S., as long as there is a need. With funds, Tian Luda can spend money at will to customize all the equipment he needs, but in China, on the one hand, the production capacity of supercomputers is limited, and with the increasing investment in scientific research, the country's demand for this area is also skyrocketing year by year, and there is a trend of short supply, on the other hand, the future biological laboratory is a private institution after all, and the two percent of the shares of Beijing Normal University are almost symbolic, if you order supercomputers such as the country's top technology。。。。。。。

Tian Lu sighed secretly in his heart: "Alas, let's try it when I go back, even if the price is twice as high, I hope they can agree to help solve this problem for the sake of money。。。。。。。 ”

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Compared with the attention of the Chinese people to the co-election of academicians of the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering, the news of the co-election of academicians of the American Academy of Sciences is much more diluted, after all, as the world's No. 1 scientific and technological power, people have long been accustomed to having many top scientists.

This is like some top universities in the United States such as Berkeley, even Nobel Prize winners are not uncommon in the school, and the number is as large as the academicians of some top universities in China, but after the professors win the Nobel Prize, in addition to honors, the reward is nothing more than a dedicated parking space.

However, in various disciplines, the news of the addition of academicians has caused a lot of turmoil.

After attending this year's Fellowship Conference in Washington, D.C., and eyeing the new Fellow, and the youngest Fellow, Tian Lu began his journey to the East Coast of the United States.

The plan is simple: visit three prestigious universities and give a few lectures.

However, compared with last year's tense schedule, Tian Lu was particularly relaxed about this year's arrangement, and he took his younger brother Tian Yong all the way slowly, but half of the time was spent on playing.

The last stop of this trip to the United States is still scheduled for New York City.

After visiting Columbia University again, the two had only one day left on their trip to the United States. Because the ticket was booked for the evening of the last day, the two of them had one day to arrange their own time. So after having dinner with several professors, when he returned to the hotel, Tian Yong came over and said, "Brother, are you okay tomorrow?"

"Well, it's okay. ”

Tian Lu, who had just finished taking a bath, wiped his hair and said a little casually.

"Then if it's all right, let's go shopping tomorrow, shall we?"

Scratching his head, Tian Yong said with a smile.

Tian Lu was stunned when he heard this, tied the bath towel around his neck, and asked with some surprise: "Shopping, where do you want to go?"

"Fifth Avenue!"

Tian Yong said without hesitation.

"Fifth Avenue?"

At this time, Zi Tianlu was even more surprised, looked his younger brother up and down, frowned and asked, "Do you know what the Fifth Avenue is?" Xiao Yong, tell me the truth, where are you going to do it? It won't be your sister-in-law and Xiao Yue。。。。。。 ”

Even Tian Lu, who never cared about these things, knew that for a foreigner, Fifth Avenue was a shopping paradise, but in the same way, Tian Lu didn't believe that Tian Yong would be interested in this kind of place!

It has been more than a year since Tian Yong came to Kyoto to follow Tian Lu, and with the change of living environment. This kid has also changed drastically. The youthfulness when I first came here gradually receded, especially after running around with my brother, after coming into contact with more people and things, not only did I become much calmer, but my personal taste and temperament also changed a lot.

However, it is still not Tian Yong's style to deliberately propose to go to a place like Fifth Avenue.

It's not that Tian Yong has no money, as Tian Lu's personal driver and bodyguard, and at the same time a cousin relationship, of course Tian Lu will not treat him badly. Tian Yong will definitely not be short of money to spend. It's just that this kid is the same as Tian Lu. I don't care much about things like what I eat, wear, and wear, so how could I want to go to that kind of place?

Knowing that his brother had suspicions, Tian Lu smiled, scratched his head again, and said, "What's this。。。。。。 You know that, brother. My sister-in-law and they came to the United States not long ago. At that time, I also visited the Fifth Avenue. My sister-in-law told me when I came. There was a perfume shop that was going to launch a new product this month, and for just two days, they both wanted it. So I was specifically instructed to buy a few bottles。。。。。。 ”

And so it was!

Tian Lu couldn't help but hold his forehead and sighed!

But Tian Lu really can't complain about this, after all, compared to the current economic conditions of the family, the two of them are relatively simple. Tian Yue is a student, so at the request of her parents and brother, in addition to cosmetics and other things, although clothes and other supplies are also good, they are generally ordinary. As for Ye Lan's words, after all, he is the chairman of a company, and the cost must be larger, but it can only be said to be relatively large.

The real top-of-the-line luxury is something you can't see in the Tianlu family.

It's not a question of affordability, or a deliberate low-key question, but a result of exceptional circumstances. Tian Yue is a student, and Ye Lan is now mainly in professional suits, so the annual expenses of the two of them on clothes and leather bags are really not large, especially those expensive brands.

However, there is one exception。。。。。。

"Actually, I don't understand. ”

Tian Yong grinned and said: "My sister-in-law usually uses a little bit of it, like my sister, she only sprays perfume when she is at home, and she never uses it when she goes out to class or work, why do you want to buy so much? I have seen her makeup cabinet, on which the perfume is placed on half the table, what the hell is it for!"

"Ugh。。。。。。 ”

Tian Lu opened his mouth, and he didn't know how to explain to his brother for a while.

My sister likes that faint fragrance, which Tian Lu has known for a long time, in fact, Tian Yue, like most girls, likes beautiful clothes and brand-name handbags, which Tian Lu also knows.

However, students must look like students, this is the family's requirement for Tian Yue!

If Tian Yue didn't plan to continue to work as a doctor, she could naturally dress up and dress casually, but she had to be an excellent neurosurgeon like her brother! In this case, at least when she was a student, she would still be controlled by her family.

Therefore, Tian Yue had no choice but to spend more enthusiasm on perfume.

Although I don't spray at school and work, or I can only spray a little bit, but after taking a shower at night, Tian Yue occasionally likes to make her whole body fragrant, and it seems that this will make her sleep sweeter.

In this way, the quality requirements for perfume are very high!

I have to say that Tian Yue's taste is quite good, at least the perfume used has not disgusted the family, like Tian Huan and Tian Le, the two little guys even like it very much, every time Tian Yue sprays those perfumes, they will get tired of their aunt's body, sniffing around like a puppy, it's very fun.

"Brother, you can go with me!"

Seeing that Tian Lu was silent, Tian Yong thought that he was not very happy, and couldn't help but beg: "This is my sister's death order for me, if I don't buy it, I will be miserable when I go back!"

Tian Yong is not afraid of his brother Tian Lu, the age difference between the two is too much, even if he is disciplined, it is a matter of course, but Tian Yue's words are only one or two years older than him, and he always likes to put his sister on the shelf, which is difficult for Tian Yong to accept, so he has to be obedient and save trouble.

"Okay, okay. ”

Seeing his younger brother's pitiful appearance, Tian Lu smiled dumbly: "Then let's go tomorrow morning, but let's say okay first, we can only buy a few bottles of perfume and then go back to the hotel to rest, we have a plane at five o'clock, up to twelve hours, and we will be very tired by then。。。。。。 (To be continued.) )