Chapter 993 The Situation Is Not Just Good, It Is Very Good

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 numerical calculation competition backstage 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 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 a supervisor, the special guest has 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.

Therefore, the vast majority of the members of the referee team are actually 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 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,"

Chang Haonan didn't even need to ask questions. Meng Weizheng, who saw his boss appearing, quickly stood up from the computer and reported the current status of answer submissions.

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

Chang Haonan nodded with satisfaction:

"This ratio is pretty good."

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 standards 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 definitely indispensable.

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

"Mr. Chang, it shouldn't reach 50% in the end."

Meng Weizheng suddenly explained:

"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 two highest scores are added together to obtain the final score, the vast majority of the participating groups directly gave up on one of the questions—mostly the first or third question.

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

Coupled with inspection 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 hand it in, there will most likely be problems.

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

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

Chang Haonan waved his hand:

"There are 70 groups and 210 people participating in the finals. This is a large enough scale..."

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.

"Where are the scoring 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 intensive. Even for supercomputers in the early 21st century, it is impossible to run at full load. 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 been released.

It's just that they will be gathered together and announced 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 my country’s Beijing Hang University. 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 part 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 an 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 team that won first place is likely to use COMSOL products.

And that's exactly what he expected.

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

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 suggested quickly.

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

However, 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 Stanford's group at least do not seem so eye-catching.

"Um?"

Chang Haonan was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then realized -

The other party would have misunderstood and thought they were annoyed by watching a foreign team win the first place in the preliminary round.

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, explanation documents, 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... did not use our software, but COMSOL Multiphysics. If the project files were also made public..."

Chang Haonan, who finally confirmed the information he wanted, and his plan succeeded, almost laughed:

"It doesn't matter, just do as I say..."

…

With Chang Haonan's "protection", the results of the competition were naturally released as scheduled 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 lucky ones 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.

Several people quickly found the word Stanford.

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

"..."

"..."

"..."

Although they had expected this for a long time, when they actually saw the results, the three of them could not 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 had a calm temperament, showed a satisfied smile:

"Not bad, 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 score sheets, there is also Total Ranking at the end of the table.

Overall ranking.

And the ranking and total ranking of their group were all 1.

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

Obviously a link.

The kind you can click in.

"etc……"

George Folger was the first to discover this detail:

"Overall ranking 1...can't 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.

And 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 excited expression. He pinched his jaws hard to control himself from laughing out loud——

Because he observed, 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!

What a win!