The Military-industrial Scientific Research System of the Academic Master Chapter 399

Chapter 399 The Birth of TORCH Multiphysics

Although it will take some time before the official unveiling of the Torch Company, considering that it is a matter that has been focused on above, the progress in various formalities is quite rapid.

 When the TORC Multiphysics software completes the final package of the public beta version in a few days, except that it does not yet have a formal office location and the organizational structure has not yet been finalized, it will be no different from a full-blown company.

One of the major benefits is that Chang Haonan can directly register Torch Company as the property owner of the software, and can also include the company's logo and contact information in the most important public test promotions.

Although this is not much different from the legal perspective compared to the original plan of acting in the name of the project team and then converting to a Torch company after the software is officially released, it is quite different in terms of publicity.

There are two versions of the public test of TORCH Multiphysics, one is the enhanced version (Proplus) authorized to some confidential units, which contains all preset models and algorithms, and the other is the professional version (Pro) that is publicly released to all applicants. There are limitations on a small number of preset databases, but there is no essential difference in basic functions. They will only affect the computing efficiency of some large models or extremely dirty models.

 At the beginning, these two versions were simply named the normal version and the advanced version within the project team.

 But Chang Haonan thought about it and felt that on the one hand, this did not sound good, and on the other hand, it seemed to discriminate against some users.

 So I simply changed the name.

 There are not even medium cups, only large cups and extra large cups.

 In short, no matter which version, it is definitely a heavy blow to the field of numerical simulation in 1997.

 After all, the core function of the software, which is multi-field comprehensive simulation with strong coupling, is almost a breakthrough from 0 to 1 in this era.

Although some laboratories or research institutes have developed some small related tools in the past, they can basically only solve certain specific problems and have no obvious help for the overall research level. Naturally, there is no way. Come to the stage of commercialization.

Some software companies that have been deeply involved in the field for many years have naturally paid attention to the business opportunities in this area. However, due to the difficulty of calculation and the level of theoretical development, the current results are limited to some small toolkits relying on MATLAB or Fluent, which are functional and reliable. Neither **** is optimistic.

It is conceivable that when TORCH Multiphysics comes out, it will bring a shock to the engineering world.

 At this most critical time, the first name that appears in people's sight is destined to be remembered for a long time.

For example, Netflix once spun off its physical DVD business and renamed it Qwikster, but even their own people often forgot the name. Later, it only lasted more than a month before they honestly changed it back.

  Therefore, using the Torch Company's logo directly instead of the name of an inconspicuous research group will undoubtedly be more conducive to subsequent market expansion and visibility.

At present, the project team's temporary warehouse located in the Supercomputing Center of Beihang University is already filled with software packaging boxes that are about to be mailed out.

“Mr. Chang, as of last night, we have received a total of 744 test applications in various forms, including 42 for the upgraded version and 702 for the professional version, including 17 from foreign users.”

“Teacher Yang, where do these 17 foreign users come from?”

The person responsible for the marketing business of Torch Company is Yang Huimei, a professor of industrial trade at Beijing Hang University, who has also met Chang Haonan several times before.

 She is also the third official employee of Torch Company to be named on the corporate working committee.

No way, in the 1990s, the management major of the marketing major had just started in China, and not many degrees had been awarded, and even after more than 20 years, no one could tell what the field was. What a professional.

ˆ In comparison, Yang Huimei, who has rich experience in industrial trade and has participated in many foreign trade negotiations in the aviation industry, is obviously a more reliable candidate.

Chang Haonan naturally cannot devote all his energy to these management matters, so only the application for the upgraded version needs to be reviewed by him personally, and the remaining professional version can basically be passed as long as the information is compliant.

For a commercial software released for the market, it is neither useful nor necessary to overly limit the scope of the user group. In fact, the UI interface of the software already provides several commonly used languages ​​in the world to choose from, and it will be even more useful in the future. Plan to go overseas.

 However, he was a little surprised that 17 overseas users could pop up without any publicity before. “Most of them are from European universities, especially those that have established cooperative relationships with us through the negotiations in the first half of the year. It should have something to do with your appeal, Mr. Chang.”

 After Chang Haonan cast a doubtful look, Yang Huimei then explained:

"Because the first one to apply was the National School of Roads and Bridges in Paris, followed by several universities in their small circle, and then expanded to Germany, Italy and Switzerland. Among the 17 users, only Agusta and Fiat "Home is a business and the rest are research institutions."

As she spoke, she took out a paper document directly from her bag and handed it to Chang Haonan, obviously she had already prepared it.

 The latter briefly browsed through it and found that it was exactly what the other party said.

"If I remember correctly, during the negotiations in Haojing, there was a person in charge of technology on the EU side named Fernando Lorenzo, who should be a professor at the National Roads and Bridges School."

Yang Huimei said from the side.

Chang Haonan turned to the last page of the first application and found that there was indeed a Spanish signature.

Of course he could not recognize the Spanish, but after being reminded, he could still tell that the person who signed the application document was Fernando Lorenzo.

 This is very reasonable.

After all, during the negotiation process at that time, this cute little old man was the first to propose in-depth cooperation with China and the first to consider introducing technology from China.

It is normal for him to continue to pay attention to the situation in China after that.

And this company is quite influential in the field of numerical calculation in Europe, so it will naturally attract the attention of other colleagues.

 Good things are all good things.

"correct."

Chang Haonan returned the document in his hand to Yang Huimei, then turned to look at the deputy director of the project team on the other side—

Originally, Chang Haonan was going to invite Li Jie over directly, but considering that he was already the chairman of Shuguang Group and an academician, the possibility of becoming the head of the technical department under him was almost non-existent, so this position had to be replaced. If there is a temporary vacancy, let the two deputy directors of the project team take over temporarily.

“Our software currently only provides a multi-lingual version of the UI interface. Now that there are foreign users in the trial phase, the instructions and related legal documents must be translated as soon as possible.”

 Although the software in the trial phase does not involve charging issues, it is not open source software after all. From a legal perspective, efforts to prevent piracy still need to be made.

Whether you can prevent it or not is another matter.

“No problem, I have already deployed the work in this area. The main problem now is that there are too few people who understand the laws in Europe, so the progress in this area will be slower.”

 The deputy director nodded and replied.

“It doesn't matter, the reputation of the first batch of customers is very important, it doesn't matter even if it is shipped abroad a little later.”

 In this kind of matter, Chang Haonan adheres to the principle of "preferring shortage to excess".

"yes!"

 (End of this chapter)

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