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DOE Awards 265 Million Processor-Hours To Science Projects
Weather Storm writes "DOE's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program supports computationally intensive, large-scale research projects at a governmental level. They recently awarded 265 million processor-hours to 55 scientific projects, the largest amount of supercomputing resource awards donated in the DOE's history and three times that of last year's award. The winners were chosen based on their potential breakthroughs in the areas of science and engineering research, and the suitability of the project for using supercomputers. This year's INCITE applications ranged from developing nanomaterials to advancing the nation's basic understanding of physics and chemistry, and from designing quieter cars to improving commercial aircraft design. The next round of the INCITE competition will be announced this summer. Expansion of the DOE Office of Science's computational capabilities should approximately quadruple the 2009 INCITE award allocations to close to a billion processor hours."
The earth is 6000 years old. A computer said it, it's science.
MY computer told me it could enlarge my pen15, but I think that was more Science Fiction than Hard Science (that joke was soo bad, I HAVE to post AC)
I'm going to go out on a limb and say,
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I think that about sums it up.
[...]to advancing the nation's basic understanding of physics and chemistry[...]
all you need for that task is a stone dropping from the second floor on some heads. that's the basics of physics and a hell of fun.
Enough to process 37,000 Libraries of Congress.