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Other than weather simulations and nuclear explosions, what other supercomputer tasks are out there?
by fragmede 4mo ago
Other than weather simulations and nuclear explosions, what other supercomputer tasks are out there?
- NitpickLawyer 4mo agoAlthough probably underfunded compared to the two that you listed, cosmology is probably up there as well. Things like early universe and galaxy formation, megastructures, etc. There's likely also some need for fusion plasma containment and other related simulations.
- jamiejquinn 4mo agoI was surprised to find out that material science uses up a significant amount of the compute time on the big research machines, at least here in the UK. It's both potentially lucrative research and computationally intensive. Combustion is the other big one that hasn't been mentioned but that's... Controversial.
- rbanffy 4mo agoWeather modeling? Physics?
- hulitu 4mo agoBased on the latest attempts to simulate (in LTSpice) Analog Devices or Texas Intruments ICs together with some common transistors, i would say that supercomputers might allow a simulation to converge in a finite amount of time.