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What are some real world applications for this bad boy? Is this a for-profit endeavor where real companies can rent this computer out to do stuff with it?
by charlesju 16y ago
What are some real world applications for this bad boy? Is this a for-profit endeavor where real companies can rent this computer out to do stuff with it?
- InclinedPlane 16y agoThese things are most useful for research via numerical simulation. The uses that would come closest to aiding for-profit endeavors would probably be various simulations of systems still in the design-phase. For example, simulation of a car crash, simulation of aerodynamics of an automobile or airplane, simulation of the fluid dynamics of a jet engine, simulation of hydrodynamics of a new super-tanker design, etc. Such simulations are fairly common today, although generally super-computers of this magnitude aren't needed for them.