I Play Dungeons in the Police Station-Chapter 390 - 239: Sunway Supercomputer

Both of them were shocked. The Shenwei Supercomputer typically operates at up to 70% capacity at most research institutes. They remembered the last time it operated at full capacity was during extreme testing right after its inception.

"Turn on three more air conditioners to bring the room temperature down. We don’t want to fry the Shenwei’s chips and motherboard."

The buzzing sound was getting louder, and the room temperature was slowly rising. They hurriedly turned on three air conditioners to cool the Shenwei supercomputer down.

It wasn’t that the Shenwei supercomputer wasn’t powerful; it was just that today it was simultaneously running three programs. First was Xiaomu’s intelligent system, whose emotional model consumed a lot of processing power. Next, the stock model calculations took up another significant portion of power. Finally, the remainder was allocated to the Skull Restoration Technique’s digital reconstruction model calculations.

Any one of these programs would be a powerhouse of computing demand. Running all three in parallel was only possible due to the Shenwei Supercomputer. If it had been Li Xiang’s previous workstation, it would have definitely started smoking.

"Xiaomu, take it easy. Don’t let the supercomputer start smoking. It’s expensive, and I can’t afford to replace it right now."

Li Xiang was a bit worried. Although the supercomputer was formidable, it couldn’t withstand the simultaneous operation of Xiaomu and two other massive programs.

"Rest assured, master. I have the entire supercomputer’s processing power under my control. I will allocate it reasonably, just a bit of overclocking here and there."

Li Xiang couldn’t tell if it was his imagination, but he felt a hint of mischievousness from Xiaomu.

Meanwhile, leaving aside Li Xiang, Xiaomu was optimizing every moment to allocate the supercomputer’s power fully, aiming to complete calculations sooner. The duty staff at the Shenwei Supercomputer Research Center checked the supercomputer’s software and hardware indicators nervously, watching the cooling fan spin loudly and feeling a pang of heartache.

"What is the Skull Restoration Research Center up to? They’ve been overclocking since they took over the Shenwei, and it’s giving me heartache. I hope they don’t ruin the Shenwei."

"Not to the point of ruining it. The Shenwei was designed with overclocking capabilities in its early development. Yet, with how they’re pushing it, I actually worry if the Shenwei can handle it."

"Should we just shut it down?"

"Let’s wait a little longer. Since they report directly to the provincial office, it would be bad if we impacted their progress and they blamed us. So far, there haven’t been any error codes or overheating issues. Let’s wait until there’s an issue before pulling the plug."

"Alright, we’ll go with your call."

The two of them didn’t get any proper rest all night, keeping their spirits tense. If anything happened to the Shenwei Supercomputer, they couldn’t bear the responsibility.

Usually, they could nap on duty, but tonight, for some reason, they couldn’t feel sleepy at all.

"Xiaomu, what’s the current progress?"

"Master, the stock model is 56% complete. The Skull Restoration Technique model is at 39%."

"Great, save the progress and continue tomorrow."

Li Xiang saved all the data carefully. This data was incredibly valuable and couldn’t be bought, even with money, since it was generated by a billion-dollar supercomputer. Losing it would leave him nowhere to cry.

After confirming the data was correct, Li Xiang cautiously stored it on his USB drive, encrypted it, then retrieved "Xiaomu" and returned control back to the supercomputer. After checking one last time to ensure nothing was overlooked, he turned off the computer.

In recent days, Li Xiang had been working nights and resting during the day. He only came to the research institute to work overtime at night.

Not seeing Li Xiang for two days, rumors began circulating at the institute: "It’s been two days without seeing Li Xiang. What do you think he’s up to lately? Acting all mysterious."

They didn’t know that Li Xiang would come to the institute at midnight and leave before they arrived for work.

"Yes, with the week’s deadline looming, he’s nowhere to be seen."

"I think he’s running away because he can’t deliver the product."

"If he runs off, what do we do next? Although bragging isn’t good, his Skull Restoration Technique is genuinely impressive."

"Isn’t it just a matter of adapting if the butcher’s gone? I refuse to believe that without Li Xiang, all of us at this institute can’t get the job done."

"Exactly, exactly."

"Wait, Li Xiang is coming out of his workspace."

"When did he go in? How did we not see him?"

While they were heatedly discussing, Li Xiang emerged from his workspace.

Today was the day he promised to deliver the core program for the Skull Restoration Technique. After finishing the two models last night, he didn’t bother to go home and just slept in the office.

He was awoken by the noise outside and came out to take a look.

Upon seeing him, everyone fell silent but their eyes showed the anticipation of watching a spectacle. They clearly knew today was the last day, and were sure Li Xiang couldn’t deliver anything, eager to see what he would do then.

Only Su Bohai spoke unpleasantly: "Li Xiang, today is the last day. How is your program coming along?"

"It’s finished. I’ll wait for Professor Xiang to come by and help with the inspection."

Li Xiang responded calmly, ignoring the look from everyone.

In fact, he should thank those people. Without them, he’d never have gotten access to the supercomputer.

"Let me take a look first, so Professor Xiang doesn’t have anything to say later." He wanted to see what Li Xiang had been busy with for a week and see how Professor Xiang could still defend him.

"No need, let’s wait for Professor Xiang. You wouldn’t understand."

What Li Xiang said was true. He used many advanced concepts in the software and even integrated portions of Xiaomu’s core code, making it incomprehensible to most people.

Not to mention him, even Professor Xiang wouldn’t dare to say he could fully understand it 100%.

But the truth often hurts. Su Bohai, hearing what Li Xiang said, thought he was being humiliated and got angry: "Li Xiang, what do you mean by that? Is there any code I can’t understand?"

The others seeing this scene felt a pang of anxiety for Li Xiang. Su Bohai was effectively second-in-command in software at the institute. With his temper, if not for some skills, he wouldn’t survive here.

This also showed his technical skills were solid.

Yet now, Li Xiang’s words seemed to devalue his skills entirely.

The simplest way to insult a programmer is to tell them: "I wrote code you can’t understand."

"Just speaking the truth."

Li Xiang’s indifferent attitude only fueled Su Bohai’s fiery temper, but just as he was about to explode, he saw Xiang Hui walk in and immediately said, "Professor Xiang is here, Li Xiang, you can show your program to the professor now."

He spoke loudly, fearing Professor Xiang might not hear him.

"Oh? Li Xiang, you’ve completed it?"

Xiang Hui entered the office, hearing Su Bohai mention that Li Xiang’s program was completed. To be honest, he was pretty intrigued.

However, with only a week’s time, he thought, a half-finished product couldn’t be expected, right? 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

"Yes," Li Xiang replied. "Moreover, with the supercomputer’s calculations, the model can now automatically generate images based on skull data."

"What? Let me see right away."

Hearing Li Xiang, Xiang Hui couldn’t sit still. He initially thought Li Xiang might have produced a half-finished product and was prepared to offer encouragement if the code was decent, not wanting to dampen the youthful spirit.

Unexpectedly, Li Xiang’s program was already capable of generating images from skull data.

This meant the software’s completion was quite high, even well ahead of what they had achieved spending two months previously.