From a university student to a chief academician

Chapter 27 Graph Computing
Computing Lab!
Ye Fei sat in front of the computer and quickly typed on the keyboard.

He is now using computers and mathematics to develop a new algorithm.

This algorithm, Ye Fei calls it "Graph Computing Method", and its full name is "Turing Computability Algorithm".

The graph computing method mainly uses most of the mathematical knowledge, and a small part of it is computer knowledge.

After starting cooperation with Professor Zhou Kang, Ye Fei also went to learn computer knowledge.

Although not as strong as Professor Zhou, it is enough for him to develop a graph calculation method.

Graph computing uses computability on set theory, topology on sets, preordering, and partial ordering.

After a long time, Ye Fei stopped, took a long breath, and said, "It's finally developed."

"Start to test it!"

After speaking, he installed the algorithm on ABTest for testing.

This is a software specially used for computer algorithm testing.

Algorithm testing has seven steps, namely interface joint debugging, downgrading scheme and performance optimization, recommendation effect testing, functional testing, algorithm data, requirement rules, and algorithm model.

"Just wait!" Ye Fei saw that the short-term test would not end, at least an hour.

After an hour, the test is over!
Ye Fei looked at the test result showing Success, indicating success.

He smiled: "Very well, the test was successful."

"Ye Fei!" Professor Zhou ran in with a sloppy image, and said excitedly, "My work is finished, we can start the next step of Turing equivalence."

Ye Fei nodded and said, "Okay, wait for me for a while."

"What are you doing?" Professor Zhou asked.

"Oh, I made an algorithm using Turing's equivalence research while I had nothing to do."

"Algorithm?" Professor Zhou asked, "Computer algorithm?"

"Yes!" Ye Fei nodded.

"Do you need me to do the algorithm!" Professor Zhou was beaten by Ye Fei and almost lost his confidence. Seeing that Ye Fei needed him, his confidence returned.

"I can help you. Let's figure out how to do this algorithm."

"No need." Ye Fei shook his head: "I have already developed it."

"Have you developed it?" Professor Zhou was surprised: "How did you develop the algorithm without me? You don't know how to use computers."

"My algorithm uses very little computer knowledge, and most of it is mathematics." Ye Feidao: "The computer part is also very simple. Computer knowledge at the undergraduate level is enough, so I can do it myself."

"Impossible!" Professor Zhou shook his head and said, "That's an algorithm. Although a lot of mathematical knowledge is used, mathematical knowledge needs to be converted into computer language."

"How do you do this?"

Computers are not humans. Anything that enters a computer must be converted into a computer language.

Only in this way can the computer know what you typed.

Something equivalent to input requires a translation mechanism.

So, in algorithms, a lot of mathematics mixed with a lot of computer knowledge.

"The algorithm you can't develop is not very good!"

In Professor Zhou's view, the algorithm developed by computer knowledge at the undergraduate level is definitely not very good, and it can run a small game at most.

"The performance is not bad!" Ye Fei said: "The number of floating-point operations has reached five trillion."

"How much?" Professor Zhou said in surprise, "Five trillion times? Just you?"

The concept of [-] trillion times of floating-point operations is to let the computer perform [-] trillion times in a second under the condition that the hardware can bear it.

A home computer typically has a speed of between 200 billion and 1000 billion.

Xiaguo's fastest supercomputer, Sunway TaihuLight, ranks sixth in the world's supercomputer, with 12.54 billion floating-point calculations.

This is equivalent to fifty times the fastest speed of a home computer, and one 25th of the speed of Taihu Light.

But don't forget that this is the world's sixth-fastest supercomputer, which was developed with the wisdom of countless scientists in the Xia Kingdom and took more than ten years to develop.

And Ye Fei developed an algorithm with five trillion floating-point calculations in just a dozen days.

In anyone's eyes, this is too outrageous.

"Yes!" Ye Fei nodded and said, "If you don't believe me, you can test it yourself and find out."

Of course, Professor Zhou didn't believe it. He personally installed the algorithm on ABTest for testing.

An hour later, Professor Zhou looked at the test data in the algorithm software in surprise.

The average number of floating-point operations is [-] trillion times, and the highest value is [-] trillion times.

He looked at Ye Fei in shock, and said, "Ye Fei, you are a monster!"

"Your algorithm not only has five trillion floating-point operations, but its size is only about 100Mb."

The number of floating-point operations reaches five trillion times, which is very common in Professor Zhou's view.

Many large companies have long developed the floating-point calculations of the algorithm of the home version of the computer program to tens of trillions, tens of trillions, or even trillions of times.

It is just because the hardware technology at this stage cannot support such a high algorithm speed, so it has not been promoted.

What really surprised Professor Zhou was that the size of the algorithm developed by Ye Fei was only 100Mb.

That's pretty amazing.

This means that the number of floating-point operations is higher than it, and the size is much larger than it.

The size is comparable to it, and the number of floating-point operations is much smaller than it.

The scope of application of the algorithm instantly came to Professor Zhou's mind.

Home computers, self-driving cars, robots...

Professor Zhou said with bright eyes: "Ye Fei, don't hang out in the mathematics circle, come to my computer circle. With your talent, you will soon become famous in the computer circle."

"Forget it!" Ye Fei shook his head and said, "I don't know how to use computers, but only mathematics."

"That's right, you said that your algorithm uses a lot of mathematics and little computer knowledge." Professor Zhou said incredulously, "Is that really the case?"

"If you look at the backstage for yourself, you will know."

Professor Zhou opened the background of the algorithm to check, and after a while, he exclaimed: "How could this happen?"

"You actually packed all the math knowledge into one package, so that the algorithm can run?"

Algorithms use a lot of mathematical knowledge, but they are all scattered, and it is impossible to pack them into one package.

A lot of mathematical knowledge requires a lot of computer knowledge, which packs mathematics into packages one by one, translates mathematical knowledge, and connects packages.

But now, Ye Fei packs all mathematics knowledge into one bag.

This is equivalent to translating all mathematical knowledge together, and there is no need to connect the package.

Because there is only one package.

However, this violates the common sense of algorithms, and even the common sense of computer programming.

Ye Fei said: "It works like this. In my opinion, numbers are the most primitive language in this world."

"It runs through humans, machines, races, and doesn't need special translation."

"Moreover, numbers have souls, and they are smarter than humans."

"It doesn't need a computer language to tell it what to do, they just know what to do."

"Since that's the case, save the translation and a lot of packages."

Ye Fei's algorithm could indeed work, but Professor Zhou couldn't figure out how Ye Fei did it.

If it is really developed like Ye Fei's algorithm, it will save a lot of code.

First of all, there is no translation mechanism, there are few packages, and there is only one.

Anyone who has some common sense in programming understands that the less code, the smaller the code size.

Small means fewer and shorter paths to run.

If the mathematical logic written is strong, then the algorithm runs very fast.

Professor Zhou suddenly found that he didn't know much about computers. After decades of computer learning, he had learned from dogs.

After watching for a long time, he still didn't understand how Ye Fei did it.

He shook his head regretfully.

Professor Zhou asked, "What are you going to do with this algorithm?"

"How can I deal with it?" Ye Fei asked.

"You patent it, lease it out, or sell it."

"How much money can I make renting out for a year? How much can I sell it for?"

"Let it out for at least 200 million yuan a year, and sell it for more than 1000 million yuan, just a little more."

"So much?" Ye Fei asked in surprise.

I have heard people say that the computer industry is very profitable.

Now he believes it, and it is indeed very profitable.

I have worked hard for half a year, and the money I earned from school is less than 100 million.

Unexpectedly, the algorithm he developed when he was bored would earn more in one year than he earned from school just by renting it out.

Ye Fei said excitedly: "I don't study much, don't fool me, I will really believe it."

"Hehe..." Professor Zhou said with a smile, "If you can't make so much money then, I will pay you back as much as you want."

Ye Fei took a deep breath, suppressed his excitement, and said, "Then sell it and rent it out. It will take five years to earn 1000 million."

"Are you sure?" Professor Zhou said, "Although the rent is only 200 million a year, the money earned in five years is equivalent to the money you sold."

"If it takes ten years, you can earn twice as much money as you sell."

"I think it's better to rent it out."

"And, that's how all companies with algorithms operate."

"Algorithms are hardly sold."

"Even if there are, the performance of those algorithms is very poor, far worse than yours."

Ye Fei said with a smile: "This algorithm was just developed by me in more than ten days. If I spend more time, I can develop a better algorithm."

Professor Zhou suddenly felt very prickly.

Indeed, this was developed by Ye Fei in more than ten days. He could develop a better algorithm by spending more time.

From this point of view, it seems that it is more cost-effective to sell.

Professor Zhou said: "Then let's talk about selling algorithms!"

"I'm not good at selling things, but I know people who are good at it, and I can find someone to sell it for you."

Professor Zhou left without saying a word.

He would not take advantage of Ye Fei, Ye Fei came to his laboratory to help, if he took advantage, let Professor Lu think of him.

Most importantly, he is very optimistic about Ye Fei.

He speaks straight and likes to offend people, but it depends on who he is. He is very happy to get close to talents.

For a genius like Ye Fei, he is more willing to get close.

(End of this chapter)