The top student must be diligent.

Chapter 136: Senior Sister of the Materials Institute
In the room of the entrepreneurship base, Xiao Yi put down his phone.

After some discussion, he decided to keep the other party's three days of free time. After all, this was already agreed upon.

As for the other party's offer to help him promote the product, he naturally couldn't refuse.

After all, Zhang Yitang introduced Huang Houping to him in the beginning in the hope of promoting the software through him.

It’s just that now the other party is willing to take the initiative to help promote it.
Considering the status of Huangkuang Company in the domestic mining industry, it is estimated that once he helps to promote it, the effect will be greater than rewarding 10 gold leaders on Qidian.

"You really are a businessman." Xiao Yi sighed.

Just at this moment, there was a knock on the door.

He was slightly stunned. Who would come to the Entrepreneurship Center to find him now?
There's still more than a week until school starts.

He stood up, opened the door, and saw several people standing outside.

Three men and two women.

He had seen two of the boys before. They were the two boys who were standing at the door of his room yesterday, "thinking about" his million-dollar server.

The one wearing glasses is called Xu Ming.

"Hello, God Xiao!"

Seeing Xiao Yi, the five people greeted him one after another. Four of them in particular looked at Xiao Yi with excitement, as if they were looking at an idol - of course, this was understandable.

Only the girl who seemed to be the leader looked at Xiao Yi carefully, as if she was trying to see what exactly made him different from normal people.

Xiao Yi was a little confused. These five people should all be from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, right?
Why did they come to find me?

But he still nodded and said, "Uh, hello, where are you coming from?"

The leading girl came up and explained her purpose: "Xiao Shen, I'm sorry to bother you. We are graduate students from the School of Materials Science and Engineering. My name is Luo Mingya, and they are all my junior brothers and sisters."

"We actually want to rent your server for about three months. I don't know if you are willing to do so. Of course, we won't occupy all the server resources, so you can use it."

"Rent a server?"

After hearing the other party's intention, Xiao Yi asked curiously, "You are doing material research. Are you planning to use the server to run simulations?"

Luo Mingya smiled and nodded: "Yes, the main design is a subject, and the process requires the use of simulation methods, so the server must be used."

"However, does Xiao Shen also know about our material research?"

"Oh, that's not the case." Xiao Yi waved his hand and said, "I'm just slightly interested in the methods of material research."

"You probably know that I'm pretty good at math. I heard that there's a field called computational materials science in materials science, and math plays a big role in it, right?"

Luo Mingya smiled and said, "Of course. If you want to study computational materials, mathematics plays a very important role, and the requirements for mathematics are sometimes quite high."

"For example, density functional analysis is an important mathematical method in computational materials science. Its key concepts are charge density and exchange-correlation functional."

"Well... to put it simply, charge density represents the distribution of electrons in a system. You should know this, Mr. Xiao, and the exchange-correlation functional is a functional that describes the interaction between electrons."

“This requires the use of functional analysis methods.”

"As for functional analysis... it is relatively difficult for those of us who study materials science. My fellow junior students may have a deeper understanding of this."

After saying that, she turned her head and squinted her eyes at the four fellow disciples behind her, "Are you right?"

"Ah... Senior Sister is right!"

The four junior brothers and sisters felt Luo Mingya's gaze and immediately avoided her eyes subconsciously.

Looking at this scene in front of him, why did Xiao Yi feel that Luo Mingya’s fellow disciples were all afraid of her?
Bullying in the lab?
Hmm... no, I feel like they should be respectful and fearful at the same time.

"So when I asked you to learn functional analysis, you didn't study hard." Luo Mingya said again, then turned around.

However, she took a look at Xiao Yi and suddenly said, "Since you are interested in computational materials, maybe you can try to join our research group?"

"Our topic happens to be closely related to computational materials science. If you are really interested, I believe this topic will give you a deeper understanding. What do you think?"

"And it just so happens that... our project team is also lacking a mathematics expert. Although I can do it, it will only take up a bit of my energy."

But when Xiao Yi heard her words, before she could react, the four junior brothers and sisters behind her suddenly widened their eyes.

Xu Ming said in shock: "Master Sister, you..."

"What do you mean?" Luo Mingya turned her head again and glanced at Xu Ming.

Xu Ming: "I..."

"What am I?"

Luo Mingya glared at him and said, "After Xiao Shen joined our research group, we can use the server better, right?"

"Of course, we still pay the rental fee, which is guaranteed to be the same as the market price, and no discount is needed."

Xu Ming remained silent.

Xiao Yi rubbed his chin and nodded: "Okay, since you can let me join your research group, it's completely possible for me to use the server."

Computational materials science?
Applying mathematics to the study of materials science?

interesting!
That passion for the problem once again aroused his interest.

In addition, this should also be considered as participating in scientific research projects, right?

As for those math or computer projects he had participated in before...well, strictly speaking, these were not considered natural sciences, so they sounded a little different.

“That’s great!”

Seeing Xiao Yi nod, Luo Mingya immediately laughed: "I believe that with your mathematical ability, Xiao Shen, you may be able to play a big role in computational materials science."

Xiao Yi waved his hand and said, "I know nothing about materials science, let alone computational materials science. I guess I'll have to study hard for a while."

Luo Mingya nodded and said, "I can recommend you a few books that will be of great help to you in getting started." "Thank you very much." Xiao Yi nodded, and then he saw that people had been standing at the door for a long time, so he said, "Come in first, it's just... there's nowhere to sit."

He looked inside and saw that there was only one chair of his in the venue.

"It's okay. We just came here to discuss this with Xiao Shen today."

Luo Mingya said this and then walked in.

"You don't have to call me Xiao Shen, just call me by my name, even if you call me your junior fellow student."

Hearing the other party calling him "Shen Xiao" over and over again, Xiao Yi always felt a little overwhelmed.

“Haha, then I won’t be polite.” Luo Mingya smiled and said, “It seems that Xiao Xuedi also feels it’s awkward to call me that. When I was in the junior class, they also called me that, but in the end I told them not to call me that.”

Junior class?
Xiao Yi looked at the senior sister in front of him with surprise. It turned out that she was a genius in the junior class.

The junior class does have the habit of calling each other "X God", but...

Luo Shen?

The four junior brothers and sisters behind Luo Mingya began to whisper to each other.

"It's over. The eldest sister is getting cocky. Does she even dare to exploit Xiao Shen?"

"Xiao Shen is so confused. He is a genius in the School of Mathematics, but the senior sister is a bully in our School of Materials!"

"What are you talking about? Why don't you come in?" Luo Mingya appeared at the door again and glanced at them.

"Oh oh oh!" The four people immediately stood at attention and walked in.

"Liu Chao, go get five stools. They should be downstairs. They should be the plastic stools that can be stacked together."

When Junior Brother Liu was about to go in, Luo Mingya assigned him a task.

"Ah?" Liu Chao was stunned. "Okay."

……

There was only one server in the room, so the five people gathered around the server.

Xu Ming was finally able to take a close look at the server, and he immediately said, "It's from IBM. Wow, this server... is beautiful!"

"Xiao Shen, how much does this server cost?"

"103 million." Xiao Yi replied.

"Hiss... This little bit is enough to equip a 3090 machine!" Xu Ming's eyes widened suddenly.

"You're still thinking about the game console." Luo Mingya said unhappily, "Think about your report last week. How long did it take me to revise it? I don't even bother to tell you."

Xu Ming shrank his neck: "Just thinking about it."

"No way. Now that we have a server, I'll leave the data processing task to you. If I find any problems..."

There seemed to be a flash of light in Luo Mingya's eyes.

"Ah?" Xu Ming's eyes widened immediately: "Senior Sister, is this..."

"have opinions?"

"I……"

……

Listening to their conversation, Xiao Yi felt more and more that their senior sister was more like their mentor.

But he didn't ask much, after all, it was the laboratory's business.

He turned around and looked at the current situation of his server.

His brows suddenly furrowed.

The current server occupancy rate is 78%.
It seems that Boss Huang has used all the mining machines.

Then the question arises, once Boss Huang starts promoting the product, it is hard to say how many new users will be attracted to join.

His server was just turned on yesterday, but it's running out of capacity today...

"hiss……"

Xiao Yi suddenly had a headache. Did he have to build some new servers?
"Any questions?"

His reaction attracted the attention of Luo Mingya next to him, who asked.

Xiao Yi pondered for a moment, then said: "I just suddenly remembered a problem. My server may not be enough in the future."

Several people were stunned.
They all looked at the server, and the occupancy rate on it immediately caught their attention.

"Xiao Shen, what is your server for? Why is the occupancy rate so high?"

Xu Ming obviously knew more about this thing and asked immediately.

If Xiao Yi is alone, how could he have such a high occupancy rate?
"This one……"

Xiao Yi explained to them the main projects of his innovative startup company.

"Ah?" Their eyes widened immediately.

This Mr. Xiao actually developed a mining software?
Has a big boss already started using it?

At this time, Junior Brother Liu who had gone to move the stools finally came back. Upon hearing their surprised voices, he immediately realized that he seemed to have missed something, and quickly came up to them and asked, "What what what?"

I feel a little dazed due to the rapid update during this period. It turns out that it is still a bit forced. I need some time to adjust.

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(End of this chapter)