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The article at MIT has a few more details. > simulation required 15 million hours of computation, carried out by 17,000 processors over a period of 37 days ...
by guelo 11y ago
The article at MIT has a few more details.
> simulation required 15 million hours of computation, carried out by 17,000 processors over a period of 37 days ...
> Now, researchers at General Atomics are taking these new results and using them to develop a simplified, streamlined simulation that could be run on an ordinary laptop computer
> they show that this is a general phenomenon, not one specific to a particular reactor design.
http://news.mit.edu/2016/heat-loss-fusion-reactors-0121 http://news.mit.edu/2016/heat-loss-fusion-reactors-0121
- dang 11y agoWe changed to that URL from http://futurism.com/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-mit-experiments-help-reveal-source-heat-loss/ http://futurism.com/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-mit-experime.... HN prefers original sources.