Andrew handed over the source code provided by Duke to Cray, and the nuclear laboratory is a major customer of Cray, and the relationship between them is very close, although the relevant technical personnel are a little dissatisfied with this modification that claims to increase by 15%, but they still quickly carry out verification tests on this modification.

Three days later, the test results alarmed even the boss of Cray. Ma Ning personally flew to Boston with the director of the operating system, on the one hand, to learn more about the causes and consequences of this source code change from Professor Andrew. On the other hand, Mr. Ma Ning is also very interested in this person who improves the system, and if possible, Ma Ning would like to pull this person into his own operating system development team.

"Professor Andrew, thank you very much for your outstanding contribution to Craylinux," Mr. Manin expressed his gratitude warmly, and of course, if Bill could meet someone who improved the performance of Windows by 15 percent all at once, he would be equally grateful.

"Mr. Maning, you're welcome, this is the research result of Dr. Duke in our lab, and I would like to thank our Turing Award winner this year, Dr. Duke." Andrew replied with a smile on his face. It is really a blessing to have such a gifted student.

When Ma Ning heard that this change was the masterpiece of this year's Turing Award winner Dr. Duke, he suddenly realized, no wonder, who in the IT industry does not know Duke, a new computer genius, but Ma Ning sighed secretly in his heart, knowing that his original intention to hire this mysterious behind-the-scenes computer master with a high salary was completely out of play.

As the owner of two thriving start-ups, Duke is now worth more than enough to buy Cray, if the U.S. government doesn't veto it.

"This must be Dr. Duke, a computer genius, and he is really famous for meeting him, and thank you very much Dr. Duke for his significant contributions to Craylinux!" These thoughts only flashed in Manin's heart, and looking at Duke beside Andrew, Manin stretched out his hand and greeted Duke warmly.

"We very much hope that this important breakthrough can be applied to other Craylinux supercomputers as well, so that all of our customers can benefit from Dr. Duke." Immediately afterwards, Chairman Ma Ning asked in front of Professor Andrew, of course, this is one of the reasons why Ma Ning came to Boston, and it is of great significance to Cray to be able to improve the performance of his supercomputer by 15% directly through software transformation.

This means that Cray's supercomputer has been upgraded to a new level of price/performance, and it can immediately distance itself from some strong competitors such as IBM and Fujitsu.

"Of course, we're willing to pay for it." Mr. Manin continued to smile. "Although we know that Dr. Duke is not short of money right now. But that's a little bit of our heart. ”

Duke was about to refuse, but after thinking about it, he knew that since Cray had obtained the source code, this technology was equivalent to giving it to others, so why not be a favor, maybe there would be an unexpected gain.

"Thank you, Mr. Manin." Duke said politely. "I hope that this money will be used to fund my two alma maters, HKUST and Massachusetts, to reward outstanding students who excel in computer science or physics."

Andrew nodded uncontrollably at Duke's treatment, obviously very satisfied with Duke's decision.

"Okay, since this is Dr. Duke's wish, we at Cray are willing to contribute $10 million, $5 million per school, to set up the Duke Cray Scholarship Fund, and take out $250,000 as a bonus from the proceeds every year, if the income is less than $250,000, Cray will make up for it, Professor Andrew, what does Dr. Duke think?" Mr. Manin got permission to use Duke, and couldn't help but bleed heavily, hoping to get it done.

Although $10 million is much less than the benefits of Duke's improvement, Ma Ning promised that the $10 million will ensure five percent of the benefits every year, which ensures the continuity of the Duke Cray Scholarship, and $250,000 in the United States as a one-year stipend for 10 students is more than enough, and for Duke's domestic alma mater, the University of Science and Technology, this coverage can be even larger.

Inadvertently, Duke really gained a lot, and with a few words, he brought in tens of millions of dollars in funds, adding a long-term benefit to some of the outstanding students of the two schools.

For this kind of donation, it is not only tax deductible for Cray, but also a reputation for the company, so this transaction is a joy for both parties.

When Cray updated the Titan II system with an improved version of the operating system, Andrew started a simulation experiment he had done, and sure enough, the running time was reduced by about 15 percent.

Looking at the test results in front of him, Professor Andrew's heart couldn't help but fluctuate, and his eyes flashed with hesitation, obviously fighting fiercely in his heart.

The fact that Duke was able to easily increase the performance of the operating system by 15 percent gave Professor Andrew the idea of asking Duke to further improve the nuclear reaction simulation program, knowing that although there are supercomputers such as Titan II, some nuclear reaction experiments are also very time-consuming, and it is a relatively simple experiment that can be calculated in a few days, and there are still months to be more complicated.

If the performance of this nuclear reaction simulation program can be increased by 15 percent, even if it is 10 percent, Andrew will be very excited, how much time will be saved for the experiment, and if you add the improvements made by Duke in the operating system, the efficiency of the whole system will be increased by a third.

Before Duke improved the operating system, if someone told Andrew that he could improve the efficiency of the entire system by 30 percent, Andrew would have thought that the person who spoke was a fool's dream.

But now that the fact that Duke has improved the operating system is in front of him, Andrew is impressed.

He hesitated only because he was worried about the safety of this nuclear reaction simulation program, which was a top-secret thing, and if it leaked out for some reason, Andrew couldn't afford to take this responsibility.

After thinking about it for a long time, and considering the strict security measures of this application, Professor Andrew finally made up his mind.