Tech Hammer

Early the next morning, while Yu Xingwei was still sitting on the high-speed train, Ning Wei had already arrived at the school's computing center.

The computing center of Yanbei University is located in the Science Building No. 1. It has a total of eight computer rooms and 600 computer seats. You need to apply for account recharge and then log in. Moreover, due to limited computing resources, many tasks need to be applied first and then queued.

But Tian Yanzhen made a special call for him and gave Ning Wei his account and password. So after Ning Wei found Teacher Liu, he also enjoyed the privilege of jumping in line.

"Ning Wei, I've heard his name for a long time. Professor Tian called me yesterday. You can log in to the second server directly later. By the way, the default available capacity of a single account on the second server is 10TB. Is that enough?" Liu the teacher asked enthusiastically.

"That's enough, thank you, Teacher Liu." Ning Wei replied quickly.

"Okay, just go to room 1138 and find a seat. By the way, when you start school and your doctoral student certificate comes out, I will open an account for you with your ID card. By the way, calculate The center also has an incentive measure to tell you. For papers published in top journals and top conferences, you only need to add the sentence "Supported by High-performance Computing Platform of Peking University" at the end of the paper, and each paper will receive 30,000 yuan. You will be rewarded with machine time, and you will not need to say hello to your field guide when queuing in the future, but you can also give priority to processing, but don't forget it. Otherwise, you will have to buy machine time with your own account in the future." Teacher Liu said enthusiastically.

Obviously, this teacher already knew about Ning Wei's feat at Jiangda University, and the teacher did not even mention the ordinary SCI reward.

"Okay, I'm planning to publish an article for a top computer conference, but I don't know if I can be selected." Ning Wei replied with a smile.

"Oh?" Teacher Liu's eyes lit up: "Which meeting?"

"STOC!" Ning Wei replied.

"Hoho, yes, Ning Wei, the rejection rate is as high as 90%, so you have to work hard. As far as I know, there are two PhDs and one professor in the school who also submitted papers for this year's conference. I hope You can all be selected." Teacher Liu encouraged.

"Thank you, Teacher Liu. In fact, whether you choose or not, we are all contributing to scientific progress." Ning Wei replied.

"Ah!" The tone was a bit high. Teacher Liu didn't know how to answer it for a while, so he could only smile and say: "Okay, I won't waste your time anymore, go and get busy."

…

Ning Wei came to the 11th floor calmly, found a seat at random and started testing.

It wasn't that he wanted to show off in front of the calculating teacher, he simply felt that Teacher Liu was too enthusiastic and too verbose.

The best way is to use the computing power in school computing as soon as possible to complete the verification task.

It was not that he was in a hurry to submit a paper, but that he was too lazy to waste too much time in the computing center, and there were still many things to do.

For example, converting the small classroom next to it into a piano room is also very important to him. There is also the so-called work clothes matter. Yesterday, he was just talking about it, but now he finds that it is actually a headache to implement it one by one.

But there was no other way. Ning Wei didn't think that giving Jiang a salary of 300 an hour would allow her to take the initiative to buy more clothes for herself. For this girl who has been accustomed to completely tying her family's fate to herself, even if she has money, she will probably give most of it to her family as soon as possible.

There is no rush to change everything.

Fortunately, Yanbei University's servers are very powerful. It took him about three hours to finish writing all the tasks. He entered the command to check and found that a special partition was reserved for his tasks, so there was no need to queue.

It took some time to specify the partition and QOS and then started to submit the job, and then waited for the system to feedback the results.

It's just to verify some theoretical things, and it doesn't require much calculation. Ning Wei estimates that the results should be available in two days at most. After doing all this, Ning Wei naturally did not wait around in the computing center. He went to the cafeteria to eat something and then returned to the research center.

Arriving in front of the office building, Ning Wei was shocked to see that Lu Dongyi had already directed a group of people to move up the classroom, and an electric piano similar to the one seen in the electronic classroom had been delivered to the door of the classroom. This efficiency...

"So fast?" Ning Wei exclaimed.

"Director Tian made a special call to the electric pianos that the school had purchased together, and they sent one over at noon. As I told you, Director Tian is very respectable." Lu Dongyi explained.

"I wish I could save face so easily." Ning Wei sighed.

Lu Dongyi glanced at Ning Wei strangely, but found that this guy didn't seem to realize why this piano was sent here. Whose face it was, he didn't know how to answer this.

"By the way, what about Senior Brother Lu's work clothes?" Ning Wei asked.

Lu Dongyi pointed at himself: "You ask me?"

Ning Wei asked back: "What else? Didn't Director Tian say that you are in charge of this matter?"

While the two were chatting, a clear call attracted Ning Wei's full attention: "Mr. Xiao Ning, I'm here to join you!"

Ning Wei turned his head and saw Yu Xingwei carrying a big backpack and pulling a big box. He looked dusty. He didn't react for a while and asked doubtfully: "Why are you here?"

There was no surprise as expected, which made Yu Xingwei feel very hurt at this moment. He couldn't help but feel aggrieved: "Didn't you tell the boss that you wanted to help me determine the direction of my doctoral thesis? The boss said that the doctoral thesis should be written where it should be written. , and sent me over directly.”

Lu Dongyi blinked and said sincerely: "Then your boss is really smart. He sent you to Yanbei University to write a doctoral thesis in computer science. This is not to use our computing power to do it for you, Jiangsu University." Contribute?”

"Ah?" Yu Xingwei was stunned. It seemed that it was indeed such a question. After all, computing power was a precious resource no matter which university he was in.

"Senior Brother Lu, don't worry about these details. Aren't Peking University and Jiangsu University both our schools in Greater China? What's a little computing power? By the way, Senior Brother Yu, thank you for your hard work. Hurry up and put your luggage in the room over there first." After reacting, Ning Wei enthusiastically stepped forward to take over Yu Xingwei's luggage.

"No, no, I'll do it myself!" Sure enough, Xiao Ning still faced him.

Yu Xingwei happily placed his luggage in Ning Wei's office according to Ning Wei's instructions, and then heard Ning Wei ask from behind him: "Brother Yu, are you tired from the journey? Do you want to take a rest first?"

"I'm not tired. I slept well last night. I can start researching my PhD topic now!" Yu Xingwei said happily, then walked out of the office and stood with Ning Wei and Lu Dongyi again.

"As long as you're not tired, don't worry about choosing a PhD topic. I'll transfer 30,000 yuan to you on WeChat. You can go shopping in the mall first," Ning Wei said.

"Huh? Isn't it? Mr. Xiao Ning, I brought all my clothes and everything. I'm embarrassed to have to spend money on you! And this time the boss said that I am on a business trip, and all the expenses will be reimbursed by the laboratory. ." Yu Xingwei said shyly.

Lu Dongyi was too lazy to listen. No wonder Ning Wei liked to take this guy with him wherever he went. He was also an honest person. So he shook his head and focused on moving the electric piano. The room had been vacated, and he could Put the electric piano in.

"Brother Yu, are you overthinking it? Here's the thing. Professor Lu and I made an important discovery. When someone plays the piano next to us for an hour every day to help us relax our brains, our work efficiency can be increased by eight percent. Ten or more, so we specially invited a pianist to come here. Isn’t this to prepare work clothes for her? Please go buy some, two sets each for spring, summer, autumn and winter. In fact, you don’t necessarily need that kind of professional clothes. Anyway, you If you think the clothes look good, just buy them. If you don’t have enough money, come back and ask me to repay them." Ning Wei explained.

Hearing this, Yu Xingwei was stunned: "Is there such a thing? Mr. Xiao Ning, you told me earlier. I have passed the Grade 8 classical piano exam in Xijiang Province. Although it is an amateur exam, my level is still acceptable."

Ning Wei blinked and looked back at Lu Dongyi.

"Just let him try the piano?" Lu Dongyi suggested.

"Then are you going to play one?" Ning Wei pointed to the electric piano that had been moved into the classroom.

"Okay!" Yu Xingwei rushed into the classroom excitedly, looked at the electric piano, shook his head and said, "I have played piano before, but this is my first time playing the electric piano."

"There's so much bullshit." Ning Wei couldn't help but say.

"Hey, then I'll show my shame."

Yu Xingwei connected the power supply, tried the sound test in the position, stepped on the pedal below, found the rhythm, brewed some emotions, finally put his hands on the keyboard of the piano, and then started to move lightly Beat up on the keyboard.

The computer doctor chose Mozart's Turkish March, and the next moment the light piano sound sounded in the small classroom. The workers who had just moved the piano came to the side to enjoy Yu Xingwei's head-bobbing performance.

However, two minutes later, Ning Wei and Lu Dongyi looked at each other, and then shook their heads almost simultaneously.

Ning Wei commented very pertinently: "Is this the eighth level? It seems really not that good, not as good as Mr. Jiang's."

Lu Dongyi nodded in agreement: "Yes, I can't understand what he played, and it has no effect at all."

The two people's voices were not loud, but the classroom was not loud either, so the piano music stopped abruptly, and the workers who moved the room dispersed themselves when they saw that there was no more fun to watch.

Yu Xingwei thought that when he saw it was an electric piano, he subconsciously thought that the pianist hired by Mr. Xiao Ning and Professor Lu was not a very good person. As expected, he was just superficial. But he still couldn't help asking about his confusion: "Mr. Xiao Ning, Professor Lu, if that teacher plays the piano very well, wouldn't he like using electric piano? Teachers are very particular about playing piano."

"Don't worry about this, just go buy clothes." Ning Wei said.

"Mr. Xiao Ning, it's no problem to buy the clothes, but please tell me the size. What if it doesn't fit?" Yu Xingwei said.

"Well, the height is about 1.67 to 1.7 meters. I told the salesperson to buy the slimmer one for this height." Ning Wei thought for a while and said.

"Oh! Is that men's clothing or women's clothing?" Yu Xingwei asked.

"Of course it's women's clothing." Ning Wei glanced at Yu Xingwei.

"Okay, then I'm going!" Yu Xingwei spread his hands helplessly.

"Well, tomorrow we will formally study your Ph.D. proposal. By the way, remember to cut off all the tags after buying. Anyway, don't have anything on the clothes that reflects the price. If you have more money, buy two for yourself. Set up." Ning Wei finally explained.

…

Yu Xingwei's biggest advantage is probably his very good attitude, not to mention spending public money. Although many straight men would feel embarrassed about buying women's clothing, Yu Xingwei actually feels pretty good. After all, the ladies at the counter When facing the God of Wealth, there will be no discriminatory eyes at all, and he will only warm up a single man with the most enthusiastic words.

"Hey, it's so thoughtful to have a boyfriend like you. Your girlfriend must be so happy to receive your gift."

In fact, facing the beautiful counter girl, Yu Xingwei really wanted to reply, "I'm actually still single," but thinking that he didn't seem to have the capital to spend 30,000 yuan to buy clothes in a big city like the capital, he would still spend it. The words held back.

After returning, Yu Xingwei handed the things to Ning Wei, and Ning Wei directly handed them over to Lu Dongyi, asking Professor Lu to hand them over to Jiang in the name of the research center. Based on Ningwei's understanding of classmate Jiang, after Meng Lang's confession that day, if he went to give it away, the other party would most likely not want it.

Even when classmate Jiang came as promised in the evening, Ning Wei just sat quietly in the office and listened to the sound of the piano from the small classroom next to him, without going over to take a look.

The most annoying person is probably Yu Xingwei.

When classmate Jiang was playing, Yu Xingwei could only accompany Ning Wei quietly in the office and listen quietly. But after all, he was an amateur piano player at level 8, so his appreciation ability was naturally beyond the reach of Ning Wei and Lu Dongyi, who knew nothing about piano. In comparison, if you ask him to give a review, his piano skills are average at best. If you give him the music score, he can play it. Why are these two talented people so intoxicated?

Of course, he didn't dare to say such things, nor did he dare to ask, but after getting over the initial discomfort period, Yu Xingwei discovered that the teacher opposite him was actually pretty good at playing. This mentality can probably be written into a paper, "On the Influence of Big Bosses."

The sound of the piano finally stopped and the sound of the piano cover being closed was heard. Lu Dongyi went over. Although the clothes were placed in the piano room, he wanted to make a handover, which made it appear more formal.

Lu Dongyi didn't say anything about Ning Wei's decision not to go over to meet with classmate Jiang. He didn't understand the matter of male love and female love anyway, and he had no intention of interfering with it. He just had to do his own thing well, such as Watching Jiang Chenshuang take away the "work clothes" and then return to the office, he nodded at Ning Wei.

Seeing Xiao Ning's relieved look, Yu Xingwei roughly understood what was going on, and then suddenly felt that the piano sound just now seemed more pleasant to the ears. Of course, he would rather not talk about this kind of thing, and he would never ask.

only……

"Oh, I haven't booked a room yet. Where will I stay tonight?" Yu Xingwei said, slapping his forehead.

"What room should I book? Come stay at my place." Ning Wei glanced at Yu Xingwei and said.

"I'm sorry, won't you disturb me too much?" Ning Wei had told him about buying a house on WeChat before, so Yu Xingwei was not too surprised.

"Well, if you might disturb me, just move out." Ning Wei thought for a while and said.

Yu Xingwei: "..."

…

The past two days passed by in a flash, and Jiang seemed to feel that he owed a "huge debt". He came to the research center to play for a full hour for two consecutive nights, and then quietly left.

The next night, Ning Wei secretly stood in front of the window and took a look. Student Jiang put on a green skirt bought by Yu Xingwei. It perfectly outlined her slender figure. The only pity was that she could only see her back. After watching the girl walk away, he patted his head again.

Damn... I actually forgot to ask Yu Xingwei to buy a few pairs of shoes.

I couldn't help it anymore, so I asked Lu Dongyi to take the spare key and took a look in the piano room. Sure enough, it was clean. On the table next to the electric piano, there was an art vase made of Coke bottles. After inserting two roses, there seems to be a faint fragrance in the piano room.

"Well, Mr. Xiao Ning, I think if you really meet someone you like, you should be braver." Yu Xingwei finally couldn't help but said implicitly.

After hearing this, Ning Wei felt a little depressed. Why is it like this now? Isn't he too brave?

"Brother Yu, do you understand my paper? Do you still have time to take care of my business?"

"Ahem, I understand, let's continue researching now. But it's almost 11 o'clock..."

"Forget it, go back."

…

No matter how depressed you are, you still have to do serious things.

Fortunately, as long as Jiang Chenshuang can play the piano for an hour every night, it will be enough for Ning Wei to relieve his inner discomfort and at least be able to concentrate on his own things. On the third day, Ning Wei went to the computing center again. This time he did not ask for Teacher Liu, but directly found an empty seat and logged in with his account and password.

The calculation was correct. The calculation process and calculation results have come out, and they are consistent with expectations, which means he can submit the paper.

After returning to the research center, he introduced the calculation process and results copied from the computing center into the paper, and then submitted it to the email address published on the official website of the conference. Of course, he did not forget to add what Teacher Liu mentioned, "This research work is supported by the high-performance computing school-level public platform of Peking University." After all, once the paper is accepted by the conference, it can be exchanged for 30,000 hours of free time, and more importantly, it can get priority processing permissions, so as to avoid having to worry about it every time. I need to trouble Director Tian.

After clicking the send button in the email, Ning Wei's recent research and development work has come to an end. The next most important task is...

Ning Wei glanced at Yu Xingwei, who was still chewing on his paper, and suddenly felt that his life was quite bitter, for example, he had to shoulder a heavy responsibility that he should not have at his age.

While Liu Cong was looking forward to his schoolmates in the dormitory group on WeChat every day, he had to take on issues that only a serious doctoral supervisor would need to consider - how to train a qualified doctoral student and give him the ability to complete his studies independently. The ability of the subject...

"Brother Yu..."

"Um?"

"When I look at you, I suddenly feel so tired..."

"This..." Yu Xingwei pondered for a moment, and then said seriously: "Mr. Xiao Ning, how about I pretend to be a gangster and intercept Student Jiang on the way tonight, and then you will appear as a hero in time to save the beauty?"

Lu Dongyi raised his head, glanced at Yu Xingwei, and commented with a sigh but seriously: "Xiao Yu, your future achievements will definitely be limitless!"