Chapter 993 The situation is not a small good, but a great one


    Facts have proven that, after excluding some special outliers, the overall level of the best students in the world is actually about the same.


    That is to say, after Lyles Connor and three other people uploaded their answers, the backstage of the Numerical Computing Competition began to receive a large number of packaged files submitted from all over the world.


    ?According to the competition settings, these project documents will be checked by the referee team, and after confirming that the project documents are complete, they will be submitted to a supercomputer for parallel processing.


    The final score is comprehensively judged by two indicators: calculation time and calculation accuracy.


    There is no tie in the competition. If the scores are the same, the team that submitted the answer earlier will be ranked higher.


    Special guests, as supervisors, have the right to randomly select answers that have been scored for review.


    ?Of course, since the conference is hosted in China, the world’s largest and highest-level numerical computing business team is also in China.


    So the vast majority of the members of the referee team are actually from the Numerical Computing Business Department of Torch Group.


    ?So, on the deadline for uploading answers, Chang Haonan also came to the computer room specially.


    Since Liu Hongbo was still in France at this time, the person responsible for managing the entire referee team was Meng Weizheng, the deputy manager of the Numerical Computing Business Department.


    “Mr. Chang, so far, we have received a total of more than 700 answers from 100 schools and research institutions, and a total of 358 answers from 67 institutions have been judged valid and entered the scoring process,”


    ??Even without Chang Haonan asking questions, Meng Weizheng, who saw his boss appearing, quickly stood up from the computer and reported the current status of answer submissions.


    “A pass rate of just over half…”


    Chang Haonan nodded with satisfaction:


    “This ratio is not bad.”


    In fact, even though he has extracted three relatively simple questions from the question bank, he is still worried that the difficulty is too high or the evaluation criteria are too strict, resulting in too few answers that can pass the completeness check.


    ?But now it seems that he still underestimated these juniors who are still in school.


    ?Of course, the "secret efforts" of their teachers are certainly indispensable.


    ??But no matter what, if there is a live final later, it will not be cheating.


    “Mr. Chang, it should not reach 50% in the end.”


    ?Meng Weizheng suddenly explained at this time:


    "There are still nearly 10 hours before the deadline, so some answers will be submitted later. Although the number will not be large, most of the project files uploaded at these stuck points cannot even pass the preliminary screening, so it will be pulled A certain lower pass rate…”


    ?This is reasonable.


    Since the final score is obtained by adding the two highest scores, most of the participating groups directly gave up on one of the questions—mostly the first or third question.


    In this way, the two questions basically require 2-3 days of work.


    Coupled with inspections and documentation, it should be over in 4 days at most.


    Unless there are any special circumstances, if you wait until the last day to submit your application, there is a high probability that there will be problems.


    Either there was a mistake in the direction, or it was simply not completed.


    “It doesn’t matter...it doesn’t affect the overall situation.”


    Chang Haonan waved his hand:


    “There can be 70 groups and 210 people participating in the final, which is large enough..."


    ??After all, even the Beijing Foreign Liaison Office has taken the initiative to ask for help. If in the end it is found that there are only three or two big cats and kittens, the scene may not be very pretty.


    “What about the rating results?”


    After a little preparation, Chang Haonan finally asked what he was most concerned about.


    The three questions in this simulation are not very computationally demanding. Even for supercomputers in the early 21st century, it is impossible to run them to full capacity. Therefore, after the project documents are reviewed, the scores will be determined almost within an hour. Being beaten out.


    So although the submission deadline has not yet ended, the results of most participating groups have actually come out.


    It will just be announced together in the end.


    "this…"


    ?Hearing this question, Meng Weizheng''s face froze slightly:


    "Mr. Chang, currently the team from Stanford University ranks first in overall score. Although the accuracy of the final result is slightly lower than the second place, the calculation efficiency is much higher. The final score according to the standardized scoring rules is 107.8 points , which is nearly 4 points higher than the second place team from Beijing Hang University in my country. The advantage is quite obvious..."


    Because it is an engineering competition, the weights of the two indicators of accuracy and efficiency are not linear.


    Simply put, after the accuracy reaches the basic requirements, further improvement in accuracy will bring little improvement to the score.


    To some extent, this is also part of the content of the competition.


    “Stanford University…”


    In fact, who won the first place in the preliminary round, or even who won the first place in the final, was not the issue that Chang Haonan wanted to pay attention to. He just vaguely remembered that Professor Anthony Jameson, who was employed by COMSOL, seemed to be from Stanford.


    ??If this is the case, then the first-place team most likely used COMSOL products.


    And this is exactly what he expected.


    As the saying goes, if you want to restrain, you must first advance.


    ?He has already dug the pit for the finals. The higher the opponent flies in the preliminary round, the harder they will fall when the time comes.


    ?However, in Meng Weizheng''s eyes, this scene was different.


    "Mr. Chang, when we announce the results of the preliminary round, can we consider not publishing the scores...at least not according to the overall ranking, but instead publishing the scores according to different schools?"


    ?He quickly suggested.


    In terms of scoring, there is definitely no room for maneuver.


    But there are thousands of participating teams. As long as the competition does not directly release the overall ranking, it is actually difficult to know who has the highest score.


    ?In this way, the results of the Stanford group at least do not seem so eye-catching.


    “Huh?” Chang Haonan was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then he realized—


    ?The other party may have misunderstood and thought they were annoyed by watching a foreign team take first place in the preliminary rounds.


    ?So he quickly waved his hand:


    “It’s not necessary, just make it public as you want.”


    “Moreover, not only the scores must be made public, but also the scoring sheets, project documents, documentation, and the names, nationalities, and schools of the contestants must be made public.”


    “Since we are holding a competition, we can’t do that secretive thing. The result will be whatever it is, let the whole world watch it together!”


    These words were so righteous that Meng Weizheng was stunned for several seconds.


    Then, he realized a more serious problem:


    “Also, Mr. Chang, the results submitted by this group...were not our software, but COMSOL Multiphysics. If the project files were also made public..."


    Finally determined the information he wanted, Chang Haonan, who succeeded in his plan, almost laughed:


    “It doesn’t matter, just do as I say…”


    …


    With Chang Haonan''s "protection", the results of the competition were naturally released on schedule without any glitches.


    Except for those groups that have given up on the finals, all the contestants who are still thinking about it are eagerly looking forward to this moment.


    Even more enthusiastic than when I first read the question.


    ?So much so that even the server specially rented by the Torch Group experienced a momentary lag.


    ?It is precisely because of this that Lyles Connor and the others, who moved a little slower, became the first batch of lucky people to successfully enter the web page.


    “Look for a school that starts with S…”


    ?Hermia Moreno said eagerly from behind.


    According to common sense, since it is the preliminary round of selection by school, the results will definitely be announced according to the school.


    Sure enough, hundreds of densely packed school names were loaded on the page according to their initial letters.


    A few people quickly found the word Stanford.


    After clicking in, the names of the three of them were listed first.


    …”


    …”


    …”


    Even though they had expected this, the three of them couldn''t hold back their excitement when they actually saw the results.


    ?Hermia subconsciously covered her mouth to prevent herself from screaming, while the other two people were already hugging each other tightly.


    Even Professor Jameson, who was sitting a little further away and had always had a calm temperament, showed a satisfied smile:


    “Not bad, I did a good job in the preliminary round…”


    ?And soon, they discovered that there was more information on this page.


    ?In addition to the common things such as player names, scores, and scoring tables, there is also TotalRanking at the end of the table.


    Overall ranking.


    The ranking and TotalRanking of their group are all 1.


    Furthermore, the color of TotalRanking’s words is different from others.


    Obviously a link.


    The kind that can be clicked in.


    "etc…"


    George Folger was the first to discover this detail:


    “Overall ranking 1…will not be…”


    He looked at the other people next to him in disbelief.


    These two words combined with a number seem to have only the meaning they imagined.


    George reached out his trembling hand to the mouse.


    After trying several times, he finally clicked on the link.


    Soon, the browser jumped to another page.


    Sure enough, it is the total ranking page.


    The first one is still the three of them.


    "oh-"


    The entire office was instantly filled with almost boiling cheers.


    Even Klaus Hertz, who had been silent just now, could not hide his excitement. He pinched his jaws hard to control himself from laughing out loud——


    Because he observed that not only the first place.


    Among the top ten alone, the project files uploaded by the third, fourth and ninth projects are marked with a .cmph extension.


    That is to say, COMSOL Multiphysics was used as a calculation tool in the competition.


    Win!


    Winning money!


    (End of this chapter)