This tail was left behind. Duke, who was stimulated by Professor Smith's letter, began to put the application for studying abroad on the agenda. Originally, Gre scored and Duke could start applying for studying abroad. However, there were too many things in Sal Company during this period, and Duke has not completely straightened out the technical matters. If Duke slapped his butt and left at this time, it would be strange if Cai Siqiang and the others were not stunned. Just kidding, not everyone has a Kerry implanted. Now, which project of Sal Company is not the top-level technology at the moment? Who dares to say that he can handle it except Duke?

The entire study abroad application process of MIT is not complicated, and the Americans will not be so bored that they are mysterious in this regard. Therefore, Duke quickly completed all the operations of the process, provided relevant materials, and after paying the application fee, the school application process was completed. According to the online guide, he also needed to "magnetic" with the target professor to get a professor who was willing to accept himself. In terms of selecting students, American schools value the professor's own opinions more than in China, especially well-known professors. After Duke's search and screening, MIT's authoritative Professor Bohr in speech recognition and artificial intelligence entered Duke's vision.

Line has become the main target. Although Professor Bohr's achievements in speech recognition are slightly inferior to Smith, he is stronger in artificial intelligence. After all, MIT's computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory is the top in the world today. It can be ranked among the authoritative figures in this field. Duke believes that his doctoral career will not be dull. In this way, with Kerry's assistance, coupled with the achievements of learning and integrating Professor Bohr's achievements, he will once again create a world-leading achievement in artificial intelligence. It should be in line with everyone's perception and successfully obtain a doctorate degree? Duke calculated.

Of course, to impress Professor Boer, Duke must show some skills. Since the speech recognition paper has been recognized by authoritative figures, Duke takes it as the main focus. With this paper and the great killer of sala speech input method, he will also attach a review of artificial intelligence. In the data collected by voice recognition before, there was also a lot of artificial intelligence data collected, including Professor Boer's important work. Therefore, Duke's comprehensive artificial intelligence review through Kerry's comprehensive artificial intelligence review, he could not write it without in-depth research on artificial intelligence. I believe that Professor Boer read these materials, not to say that he met too late, at least he would regard Duke as a very potential researcher. All the materials, including Duke's own research introduction, were sorted out and packaged and sent to Professor Boer.

After doing all this, Duke began to calm down and seriously consider the follow-up arrangements.

Now SAL has basically gone on track. Duke, the core part of several voice recognition-related products, has provided complete SDK. The company's R&D department is now fully capable of continuing to develop and improve products based on this SDK. Even if there are some problems, Duke believes that it can provide remote support.

Now there is only this joint development game. Based on the game engine framework provided by Santa, Kerry has completed the core optimization of the server and client. In Kerry's simulation test, it has reached the level of one million concurrent users. Of course, this is based on a distributed service cluster. However, this new game engine framework optimized by Kerry has been unrecognized. The program code is basically modified by Kerry to have no readability. According to this situation, even Duke himself cannot explain these codes, let alone explain how to modify so much code in such a short time. Thinking of this, Duke has no other way, so he had to encapsulate it into SDK, not provide source code, but provide secondary development interfaces in SDK.

After handing over the demo program and SDK to Shengda, Qin Chu obviously complained that they signed a joint development agreement, sharing game revenue and interests, and sharing the intellectual property rights of the game by both parties. What's the point of not getting the source code?

The senior technical leaders of Sanda Company immediately rebounded and strongly demanded that Qin Chu get the source code. Originally, this transaction was already very unequal to the view of these senior technical leaders, and did not reflect the advantages of Sanda Company at all. It was simply an unequal treaty that betrayed the interests of the company. After all, they did not understand the magic of Duke's voice recognition technology. It was just too much to infer from common sense that a game adaptation copyright and a voice recognition technology were used to exchange for 50% of the profits.

Of course, in their minds, they believe that the so-called joint development is mainly based on the company's game engine framework, which means that most of the R&D work must be completed by Sanda Company. In terms of game engine core, SAL is not even qualified to start the game engine core. This technology depends on experience accumulation. SAL, a small unknown company, has never heard of Sanda's technical executives before, how strong can this technical ability be. However, when the company's testing department tested the demo application performance based on Duke's improved new game engine framework, almost all the technicians involved in the test saw the result data at the first glance: I went, and a group of servers supported concurrent users were as high as 30,000!

How can a group of servers support 30,000 concurrent users? Faced with this amazing level, the Santa testers didn't believe it anymore. It must be a problem with the test program, or the operation was caused, because if they follow the game engine framework they originally provided, in a group of servers, that is, a character server, a battlefield server, a field server and a copy server, it is already the limit to be able to support concurrent users at most 6,000 people. If they want to run stably and smoothly, a group of servers generally have to be limited to 5,000 concurrent users.

The testers of Santa Company who were stimulated repeatedly tested five times, but the results were exactly the same. Finally, they believed that the miracle was born. Faced with this god-like test result, the technical senior executives of Santa Company who were originally skeptical shut up. According to this data, they support concurrency of millions of users, and the servers needed are only forty sets. Well, even if the performance gap between demo and real applications is 30% off, it will be no more than fifty sets of servers at most.

Well, just looking at this data, everyone has no intuitive feeling. Compared with the World of Warcraft introduced by 90% back then, I believe everyone will know the significance of this number better. When it was the most popular in Nine City, it was claimed that the number of people online in World of Warcraft was more than one million. In order to support these million online players, 90% spent a full 77 million US dollars. Yes, you are not wrong, it is US dollars, $77 million usdollar! It has used thousands of servers. Of course, over the years, the performance of the server has also been greatly improved. By 2009, NetEase took over Warcraft and rebuilt a new Warcraft server cluster, but it still cost 22 million US dollars.

Now everyone understands the significance of Duke's optimization game engine. Just the server investment alone, Santa will significantly reduce investment costs, because the server prices for testing demos are within 100,000 yuan. According to 50 groups of 200 units, plus some backup redundancy and main control minicomputers, the total hardware investment is no more than 30 million yuan. In other words, the game server cluster created with a budget of 30 million yuan can support millions of concurrent users. What is this? It means that the hardware configuration overhead of other game companies can support the largest number of online users of the same scale. What a huge cost competitive advantage.

Qin Chu, the kid, has found a treasure! The senior executives of Shengda Company, who was originally skeptical, had to admit this. The boss of Shengda decided to directly send a hundred people to Rongcheng, and cooperated closely with the sal company to close development. Even if the company has nearly one million travel expenses per month, it is still possible to increase the company's travel expenses by nearly one million yuan per month. The sal company has such powerful technical capabilities. Compared with the voice recognition ability shown in the original agreement, Shengda Company attaches more importance to the optimization ability of the game engine framework. You must know that this is the soul part of a game. Relatively speaking, voice control is just a more special client control method. Of course, it is best to have it. If not, it will not essentially affect the future of a game. At least in the current situation where most games are still controlled in the same way.

In addition, the boss of Sanda has a close plan, that is, SAL can optimize the core of the game engine in such a short time, and putting the development progress of this game here is more guaranteed. Originally, SAL planned to launch the first internal beta version within half a year, which happened to be in line with the peak reading period of this novel. Now it seems that with the cooperation of SAL, this progress has an opportunity to advance. This time is really too precious. It will be launched one month in advance. With the help of the popularity of the novel itself, how much promotion cost will be saved? It is obvious that the boss of Sanda can make a fortune like this.

It took two weeks to integrate more than 100 people from Sanda Company and SAL Company, mainly for training based on the development of the new game engine SDK. After all, this thing is much more complicated than the Sala input method, and the interface has been increased by dozens of times. It is really difficult to get started without training. Fortunately, although Kerry's code has been optimized a lot, it turns out that the functions under the original engine framework can remain unchanged and try to keep the parameters unchanged, which makes Sanda and other R&D personnel feel a bit familiar. Finally, they embark on the journey after the two weeks of training.

Professor Boer also quickly replied to Duke's email, expressing his intention to receive it, and requesting a video call. In his opinion, such an excellent talent should be very famous. How could he think of studying for his own doctorate? Could it be someone else's ghostwriting? However, through the Skype video dialogue, Duke answered Professor Boer's technical questions accurately in fluent English. Duke's understanding of voice recognition and artificial intelligence has reached the level of an excellent doctorate, which proves that it is indeed his own ability. For such an excellent student, Boer happily said several greats, saying that he would actively promote the school's review of Duke's application and provide a full scholarship. Duke himself can prepare passports and other necessary items for studying abroad.

Brother is leaving now? Thinking of the past few months of experience, Duke felt like he was dreaming. From a miserable unemployed young man, he was gradually labeled as a halo of online literature masters, technical geniuses, quasi-billionaires, etc.
Chapter completed!