The military-industrial scientific research system of the academic master.

It turns out that the overall level of the world's best students, after removing some special outliers, is actually similar.

That is, after Lyle Connor and three others uploaded their answers, the numerical computing competition backend began to receive a large number of packaged files submitted from all over the world.

According to the competition settings, these project files will be checked by the referee team, and after confirming that the project files 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 will be no ties in the competition. If the scores are the same, the team that submitted the answer earlier will be ranked higher.

As supervisors, special guests 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 most advanced numerical computing business team is also in China.

Therefore, the vast majority of the judging panel members actually come from the Numerical Computing Business Department of Torch Group.

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

Since Liu Hongbo was still in France at the time, the person in charge of the entire referee team was Meng Weizhen, deputy manager of the numerical computing business department.

"Mr. Chang, so far, we have received more than 100 answers from 700 schools and research institutions, and 67 answers from 358 institutions have been judged valid and entered the scoring stage,"

Chang Haonan didn't even need to ask any questions. When Meng Weizhen saw his boss show up, he quickly stood up from the computer and reported the current status of answer submissions.

"The pass rate is just over half..."

Chang Haonan nodded with satisfaction:

“This ratio is quite acceptable.”

In fact, even though he had selected three relatively simple questions from the question bank, he was still worried that the difficulty was too high or the evaluation criteria were too strict, resulting in too few answers passing the completeness check.

But now it seems that he still underestimated these younger generations who are still in school.

Of course, the “secret efforts” of their teachers are indispensable.

But no matter what, with the live finals coming up, it is not possible to cheat openly.

"Boss Chang, it probably won't reach 50% in the end."

Meng Weizheng suddenly explained at this time:

“There are still nearly 10 hours left before the deadline, so some answers will be submitted later. Although the number will not be large, most of the engineering files uploaded at these checkpoints will not even pass the initial screening, so the pass rate will be lowered to a certain extent…”

This makes sense.

Since the final score is obtained by adding the highest two scores, the vast majority of participating teams simply gave up on one of the questions - mostly the first or third.

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

Including inspection and document organization, it should be completed in 4 days at most.

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

Either there was something wrong with the direction, or it was simply not completed.

"It doesn't matter...it won't affect the overall situation."

Chang Haonan waved his hand:

"The finals have 70 teams and 210 participants. This is already a large enough scale..."

After all, even the Beijing Foreign Affairs Office has proactively asked to come and help. If in the end it is found that there are only a few cats, the scene would probably not be very good.

"What are the ratings?"

After a brief introduction, Chang Haonan finally asked what he was most concerned about.

The three questions in this simulation do not require much computational effort, and even the supercomputers of the early 21st century cannot run at full capacity. Therefore, after the engineering documents are reviewed, the scores will be announced within an hour.

So even though the submission deadline has not yet ended, the results of most participating groups have already come out.

It's just that they will be announced together in the end.

"This……"

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

"Boss Chang, the team currently ranked first in overall results is a team from Stanford University. Although the accuracy of the final result is slightly lower than that of the second place, the calculation efficiency is much higher. In the end, according to the standardized scoring rules, the score is 107.8 points, which is nearly 4 points higher than the second place team from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The advantage is quite obvious..."

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

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

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

"Stanford University..."

In fact, who won first place in the preliminary round or even in the final was not what Chang Haonan wanted to care about. 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 group that won first place was most likely using COMSOL products.

And this is exactly what he expected.

As the saying goes, before you criticize, you must first praise.

He has already dug the pit for the finals. The higher the opponent flies in the preliminary round, the harder he will fall.

However, in Meng Weizhen's eyes, this scene was not the case.

"Boss Chang, when we announce the results of the preliminary round, can we consider not announcing the scores... at least not by overall ranking, but by different schools instead?"

He quickly suggested.

There is definitely no room for maneuver when it comes to scoring.

But there are thousands of participating teams, and as long as the organizing committee 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.

"Ok?"

Chang Haonan was stunned at first, then he reacted -

The other party misunderstood me and thought that I was annoyed because a foreign team won first place in the preliminary round.

So he quickly waved his hand:

"No need, just make it public as it should be."

"Moreover, not only the scores should be made public, but also the score sheets, engineering files, instruction documents, and the names, nationalities, and schools of the contestants."

"Since we are holding a competition, we can't be secretive. The results should be what they are, and the whole world should come to see them!"

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

Then he realized a more serious problem:

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

Finally confirming the information he wanted, Chang Haonan almost laughed out loud after his plan succeeded:

"It's okay, just do as I say..."

……

With Chang Haonan's "escort", the results of the competition were naturally announced on schedule without any unexpected problems.

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

Even more enthusiastic than when I first saw the question.

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

It was precisely because of this that Lyle Connor and his companions, who were a little slower, became the first lucky ones to successfully enter the webpage.

"Hurry up and find a school that starts with S..."

Hermia Moreno said eagerly from behind.

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

Sure enough, hundreds of school names were loaded onto the page in alphabetical order.

Several people quickly found the word Stanford.

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

"..."

"..."

"..."

Although they had expected this, when they actually saw the result, the three of them couldn't contain their excitement.

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

Even Professor Jameson, who was sitting a little further away and had always been calm and composed, smiled with satisfaction:

"Yes, you did a good job in the preliminary round..."

Soon, they discovered that there was more information on this page.

In addition to the common items such as the player's name, score, and scoring table, there is also a Total Ranking at the end of the table.

Overall ranking.

And their group's ranking and total ranking were both 1.

Also, the color of the Total Ranking text is different from the others.

Obviously a link.

The kind you can click into.

"and many more……"

George Fauger was the first to discover this detail:

"Ranking 1 overall...it can't be..."

He looked at the other people around him with some disbelief.

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

George reached for the mouse with a shaking hand.

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

Soon, the browser jumped to another page.

Sure enough, it was the overall ranking page.

And the three of them are still ranked first.

"Oh--"

The entire office was instantly filled with almost boiling cheers.

Even Klaus Herz, 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.

Among the top ten alone, the third, fourth and ninth place uploads project files with the .cmph extension.

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

win!

What a win!