When Qi Min left the lab, she had already completed five of her six major cycles. The last one is dealing with the neuronal up-down cascade, so it takes an exceptionally long time.

She left school with her computer and took the subway back to her friend's house, where she is now borrowing.

Qi Min's friend is called Yan Zhaolan, and she was also her classmate in college, because she didn't have a doctorate but a master's degree first, and now she hasn't graduated with a doctorate. But because he is studying for a doctorate at a top 2 university in China, he has already married during his doctoral studies. If it weren't for the fact that she and Qi Min had a really strong relationship when they were in school, I'm afraid they wouldn't have let Qi Min live in their own house.

However, Qi Min knew that it was very troublesome for her to live in the couple's house, so she went into her bedroom after she went back, and she would never come out unless it was necessary.

She entered the room at five p.m., opened Jupyter on the Internet, and began tinkering with her code again. After the sixth cycle, she is equivalent to running a 256^(3)=25616777216 virtual neuron connector, which is still four orders of magnitude short of the number of neurons in the human brain (about 86 billion).

This can only be regarded as a beta version of the brain-like body, but Qi Min can already do something with it. The easiest way to test is to do machine learning. There is a lot of ready-made code on GitHub, Qi Min casually found a piece and pasted it, adjusted all the parameters and let it run.

This seemed to work without any problems, but it didn't take long for Qi Min's phone to ring.

"Hey, is it Teacher Qi Min from the Department of Biology?" The guy over there said, "I'm the administrator of the school's computing center, have you been running code?" ”

"Uh...... Maybe it's me. Qi Min replied worriedly.

"Can you stop for a moment? The computer room was overloaded, causing the medical department hall to lose power again. Said the administrator of the computing center.

"Oh...... I'm sorry, I'm sorry......" Qi Min hurriedly apologized, but she glanced at Jupyter, this code has already run halfway, and the supercomputer has its own backup power supply, which can actually last for a long time.

You can fight for it. Qi Min said again: "But it's not necessarily a problem with the computer room, when the weather is hot, the physiological and medical laboratory consumes a lot of electricity." ”

"That's what we say, but the power consumption of the supercomputer room is also too great." The administrator of the computing center said, "You better stop for a while, and then we can explain to the teachers of the medical department." ”

Everyone said so, and Qi Min was embarrassed to continue to run her code.

She paused the code she was running and asked into the phone, "Okay?" ”

"Well, right away. No problem, thank you. The administrator of the computing center hurriedly said, "Wait...... Two hours, and then keep running. ”

Qi Min waited for two hours, but when she restarted the code, she found that the code had obviously slowed down. She went to the computing center and found that her computing resource allocation was limited to 30%, whereas her code had been running at 50% of the computing resources.

It's really unpleasant. But Qi Min can't do anything, after all, the computing center is shared by all departments in the school except for the computer department, and the biology department probably won't have anything to do with the computing center because of her topic of water funding and water articles.

But originally with 50% of the computing resources, it was already necessary to run a 256×256×256 connector, and in the future, with 30% of the computing resources to run a full-size brain-like body, I really don't know what year and month to run.

Qi Min felt that this would not work, she had to think of an alternative way.

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Soon this "other way" came to her on its own.

On Saturday, Yan's school held a forum for doctoral students. Because there was a free lunch, Yan Zhaolan took Qi Min with her.

At the doctoral forum, Qi Min learned that Yan Zhaolan's school's School of Life Sciences has a cooperation project with the Chinese Academy of Sciences' supercomputer "Nimbus", and the "Nimbus" is much stronger than the supercomputer of the computing center that Qi Min now uses. The important thing is that the supercomputer of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has its own power supply system, at least it will not compete with the laboratory of the medical department.

Qi Min originally didn't want to trouble Yan Zhaolan anymore, but this was related to whether she could pass the annual assessment, so she still had to ask Yan Zhaolan to introduce her to the teachers of the "Rain Cloud" team of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Yan Zhaolan heard her talk about this, and immediately agreed: "Of course, my boss has contact with the teacher over there." You come with me......"

Yan Zhaolan led Qi Min to an old gentleman and a middle-aged lady who were talking. Qi Min recognized the old gentleman in a blue suit and a colorful tie with a lot of personality as Yan Zhaolan's doctoral supervisor, Professor Zheng Wenyu. And the lady he was talking to was wearing a certificate representing a visitor, so she should be a teacher from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Mr. Zheng Wenyu is a very kind person, and when he saw his student coming, he introduced Yan Zhaolan to his collaborator: "Xiaoshan, this is the one I said before, Zhaolan, a doctoral student in our laboratory who does stem cell 3D printing culture. ”

"Hello Mr. Zhou." Yan Zhaolan shook hands with the lady who should be called Zhou Xiaoshan.

Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan probably thought that Mr. Zheng's students had something to do with him, so she left temporarily on the grounds that she wanted to sign for the junior doctoral students who came to register.

Mr. Zheng Wenyu asked Yan Zhaolan, "What's the matter, Zhaolan?" ”

"Teacher Zheng, this is my undergraduate classmate Qi Min." Yan Zhaolan pulled Qi Min over and introduced her mentor, "She's ...... now"

She forgot which school Qi Min got the teaching position in, but fortunately, Qi Min added in time: "It's China Technical University." ”

"Yes, China Technical University." Yan Zhaolan hurriedly picked it up, "She is doing bioinformatics, so she wants to ask if she can cooperate with us and use the 'Nimbus' supercomputer together." ”

"...... of China Technical University" Mr. Zheng Wenyu hesitated. It's really no wonder that people hesitate, Yan Zhaolan is an undergraduate from a top 2 university in China and a doctorate from another top 2 university. And since Qi Min is Yan Zhaolan's classmate, Mr. Zheng acquiesced that she was still studying for a doctorate, but she turned out to be at the bottom of the 985 in the middle of the double-digit ranking at Zhongtechnical University, which is really hard to trust.

However, the Chinese Technical University is also a university in Beijing, and it is appropriate for local schools to cooperate with each other. This matter is actually borrowing the computing resources of "Nimbus", which is not too troublesome in itself, and Mr. Zheng Wenyu is not easy to refuse.

"Okay, bioinformatics, interdisciplinary deserves support." Mr. Zheng said, "You can send me the project plan, and I will discuss it with Zhou Xiaoshan, a teacher from the Chinese Academy of Sciences." ”

It's basically like saying yes. Qi Min hurriedly thanked: "That...... Thank you so much......"

She wanted to say something, but was secretly pulled away by Yan Zhaolan.

When she arrived in a corner far away from the academic bigwigs, Yan Zhaolan patted her with some hatred: "Zhou Xiaoshan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is there, why don't you talk to her directly?" And what are you stumbling about talking to my boss? You're a serious lab PI who has gotten a teaching position, what's there to be nervous about? ”

"That's different, these are all the big guys of TOP2 universities, and I'm just a LOSER...... of middle technology," Qi Min explained hesitantly.

"you, you and I are from the same school, but you were all top students back then." Yan Zhaolan glanced at her, but turned her head to see someone bringing desserts for a tea break, "Forget it, let's eat something first." ”