Nuclear Fusion Simulator Among Software Picked For US's Summit Supercomputer 57
An anonymous reader writes Today, The Register has learned of 13 science projects approved by boffins at the US Department of Energy to run on the 300-petaFLOPS Summit. These software packages, selected for the Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR) program, will be ported to the massive parallel machine, and are hoped to make full use of the supercomputer's architecture.They range from astrophysics, biophysics, chemistry, and climate modeling to combustion engineering, materials science, nuclear physics, plasma physics and seismology.
Re: How about (Score:5, Funny)
Actaully they built that in the late 70's, its was called Detroit.
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On the left side of you image, we can see white men murdering most people in Hiroshima with a atom bomb. On the right you can see what happens when white men focus on short term returns of their investment and give a shit on society.
No Minecraft? (Score:3)
Oh, wait, MS bought Minecraft, no wonder they didn't include it.
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Re:Boffin?? (Score:4, Funny)
WTF is a boffin?
No one really knows but many of them died to bring us this information.
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For a long time the reason why schools of boffin sometimes beached themselves in places like the Thames estuary was unknown, but we now think the cause is a vain search for funding.
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A WWII radar operator. I'm serious. Google Books it.
Re: slashdot unusable... obnoxious ads (Score:1)
You surf the internet without adblock, ghostery, and/or hosts files? Are you retarded or just a masochist?
Stuck In A Rut (Score:3, Interesting)
Still only 2 GB memory per core. We've been stuck there for more than a decade. Useless piece of iron ...
Re:Who cares about fusion (Score:5, Funny)
Sure, because a cheap, clean source of energy wouldn't help with any of those things.
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Let's try to solve global warming and poverty and economic inequality first.
Cost effective fusion reactors could be a solution to all of these.
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Fusion is just a pipe dream, like ftl travel. A better solution would be to kill all rich people and Americans.
Yeah just like the heavier than air flight pipe dream and all the shit load of other pipe dreams that have become a reality. So if you're done being no help, kindly fuck off.
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> Cost effective fusion reactors
Oxymoron.
We *might* build a working fusion reactor someday.
However, we already know it will not be cost effective. Everyone knows this. The head of the French nuclear research group and the director of the Max Planck Institute co-wrote a paper explaining why. So did the former director of the US fusion program. So have lots of other people.
The problem is very simple. A wind turbine consists of a generator, a turbine, and a metal pole. A coal plant consists of a generator,
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I'm amazed you wrote this entire long post and didn't mention once the amount of power that gets generated by each type of plant or long term maintenance costs. I believe that your premise *could* be true, but you're statement is no better than saying that dirts bikes are better than UPS trucks for delivering packages because they cost significantly less.
We need a human biology model (Score:2)
A sufficiently detailed human physiology mode could mean a big drop in the time and expense of searching for and qualifying new medications.
Supercomputers already do drug design (Score:2)
"Simulations of fusion are only 50 years away!" (Score:2)
"Simulations of fusion are only 50 years away!"
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Let's hope not. The ITER project (link [iter.org] for which this simulation is intended, is planning to have first plasma in 2020. Which means that the simulation, when run in 2018, will be just about in time for making last ajustments in the steering of the magnes and other anti EMP measures that are in place.
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When it could be analyzed, reduced to a few equations and done on a pocket calculator?
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that you have no idea what you're talking about.
Yay! (Score:2)
Now we can get useless results twice as fast!
For those of you unfamiliar with the history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LASNEX
How about Fusion@Home? (Score:2)
Why can't we do the equivalent of SETI@Home or the protein folding thing or hell, even bitcoin mining for fusion simulation?
Oh, please, if there was a fusion reactor in dev (Score:1)
I mean, come on, if there was a fusion reactor being developed, it would be at the UW and ...
oh
Hmm.