Murphy spent another week or so completing the modeling for the wand-core antenna array, and conveniently made the wand-body model as well—assigning this homework to the two little ones was simply to familiarize them with the methods of using mathematical tools, and he did not genuinely expect them to make models of any great quality.
However, the wand-core antenna array model featured over a hundred parameters, and if refined, could even reach up to tens of thousands of parameters. Wanting to complete the model's optimization required a massive amount of tedious and repetitive calculations.
He needed a mainframe.
Yet computers simply could not operate in the magic-rich environment of Hogwarts, so Murphy returned to the Magic Research Institute.
"The institute's supercomputer project hasn't been completed yet, but as far as I know, the Umbrella currently has over forty thousand computers connected to the network, with more than half of their computing power sitting idle. We can use them to run the calculations first,"
said Brise Mason, head of the supercomputer center at the Magic Research Institute.
"Distributed computing?"
"Yes."
"That works." Murphy thought for a moment, "Find a few people who understand genetic algorithms; this model is relatively well-suited for iteration using genetic algorithms. Contact me whenever there are results."
"Understood, but how should we deliver the results to you?"
Murphy was just about to say he had left two ravens at the institute, but then second-thought it: for a task of this complexity, he would inevitably need to communicate continuously with the institute.
While it was true he could receive signals through the senses of those two ravens, the institute side could only get his feedback through the ravens' speech. Simple commands were fine using this method, but when it came to things like formulas and terminology, expecting a