Top Student at Their Peak

Seeing Yu Yanjiang still calculating, Qiao Yu added, "This money will only be used for equipment purchasing and later maintenance. I didn't include labor costs for software and platform development."

Yu Yanjiang nodded, roughly approving Qiao Yu's budget.

If we really want to purchase hardware to build such a platform, thirty million isn't much, it's even quite cheap, to be honest.

After all, if the platform can really go online, the most expensive thing won't even be those hardware devices, but rather the personnel salaries.

The talents who can design such a computing platform are the most expensive.

Thus, Yu Yanjiang laughed and asked, "So, if I give you this money for the project, does it mean that once the platform is built, we can use it for free?"

Qiao Yu first nodded, then shook his head, explaining, "If you invest in this project, in the future your projects can of course use this platform for free, including all its function libraries.

But this platform will definitely belong to us, and we can lease the libraries to various labs and research groups. This way, other labs can purchase the corresponding libraries based on project characteristics for computation.

After all, as I mentioned earlier, the thirty million investment is just for buying hardware; the money needed for system and platform development hasn't been counted. Of course, if you think this plan isn't good, you can wait.

I feel this project has potential, and I'm ready to bring in an angel investor to build this platform together. By then, you can also purchase usage either per time or monthly."

What Qiao Yu said wasn't to pressure Yu Yanjiang; he genuinely thought this way.

As for the partner, naturally, it's Yu Wei.

Yu Wei is two months older than him, meaning there are still ten months until adulthood. They've already agreed that the money Yu Wei gets upon adulthood will be invested into this.

He can just use it to set up this framework. With the extra money, he can pay salaries to himself, Senior Brother Chen, Old Xue, and others...

Anyway, Qiao Yu thinks this project is unlikely to lose money.

Even at Yanbei University, the Academy of Sciences' affiliated institute's laboratory has such difficulties with data processing, so one can imagine the high demand for this computational method across all of Huaxia's laboratories.

The most important thing is that the demand in this area always exists. It's not that once an experiment succeeds, there won't be a need next time.

The need for various new materials with the development of technology is endless, and so is the demand of scientists for various laboratory results.

As long as the platform can ensure quicker progress guidance for each lab project, many people will be willing to spend money to rent libraries.

For Qiao Yu, this is inevitable. Laboratory demands are varied, and designing a completely unified general model is almost Mission: Impossible.

Thus, building a platform composed of modular elements is the only solution.

Unifying core algorithms while flexibly adjusting for different demands. If encapsulated with underlying technology, it can directly lower the user threshold for non-mathematics professionals, which highly attracts small laboratories.

At least from Qiao Yu's perspective, investing thirty million to use this system a year in advance and for free must be profitable, quite significantly so.

After all, the entire lunar exploration project requires this system extensively. A huge amount of data needs processing, and various libraries will be used, which means needing a large amount of funding.

Of course, from Qiao Yu's perspective, this isn't done out of respect for Vice Chief Engineer Yu, but for his own mentor and grandmentor, or you could say for the Great Huaxia.

After all, this is a national priority project, not Yu Yanjiang's personal project. Although the big promises Yu Yanjiang made today, Qiao Yu doesn't believe half a word.

But what if...

Putting aside the fact of empty promises, at least Qiao Yu thinks Chief Engineer Yu is quite imaginative. If one day in the future, lunar tourism resources are truly developed, and the Moon becomes a tourism star.

Not even mentioning a dedicated statue, just building a relief wall along the port with a row of people who contributed to lunar development, him and his grandpa taking two spots, doesn't seem entirely impossible.

With some effort in the future, who knows what might happen? Without mentioning much else, simply completing this computing platform would already count as a great contribution, right?

As Qiao Yu finished speaking, Yu Yanjiang glanced at Tian Yanzhen and saw him sitting there still as a mountain, feeling a bit annoyed.

What a good kid, mainly it was the teacher who didn't guide properly. A grandparent who is remembered so fondly by the child must be a wonderful person.

If the teacher had guided properly, how could it be that he's so concerned about trivial details?

However, thinking about how much time can be saved with the data handed over by the Computing Institute in just one week, and that researcher who couldn't focus all morning...

Ultimately, Yu Yanjiang slapped his thigh and said, "Alright, let's do it that way! We'll finalize this project of yours, Qiao Yu. I have faith in you, and I'm not putting pressure on you. Half a year, just half a year.

No need for the official launch in half a year, as long as it can reach testing standards within six months! Hmm... just like the efficiency and outcomes you let the Computing Institute analyze this time."

"Ahem... Let me interject, Brother Yu." Tian Yanzhen, who hadn't spoken until now, suddenly said.

Yu Yanjiang looked at Tian Yanzhen, and asked irritably, "What do you have to say this time?"

Tian Yanzhen asked very seriously, "Since we're changing our approach, this funding should only be allocated from your lunar project, right? If you also want the Computing Institute to bear sixty percent, that would truly be unjust."