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Clearly designed to run AI for cyber-warfare / cyber-defense purposes? William Gibson's Black Ice coming to life?

• scottcha 11y ago
  More likely its for modeling nuclear weapons which I believe is the primary purpose of NSCI.
  • trsohmers 11y ago
    NNSA*, which is an office within the Department of Energy.
    • scottcha 11y ago
      National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) is the initiative within the DOE.
  • semi-extrinsic 11y ago
    The story linked below about the French exascale plans explicitly states that it is the military applications division of the French nuclear energy agency (CEA) that is spearheading that effort. (I believe they work on both reactors and warheads.)
  • jen729w 11y ago
    Serious question: what's left to model? They're already big enough to kill everyone, and we have heaps of them.
    • markhahn 11y ago
      Often they model how the warhead ages, rather than how it explodes.
      • scottcha 11y ago
        Yes, this is my understanding.