Lithium Air Batteries Get Boost From IBM and DOE

coondoggie writes "The Department of Energy and IBM are serious about developing controversial lithium air batteries capable of powering a car for 500 miles on a single charge – a huge increase over current plug-in batteries that have a range of about 40 to 100 miles, the DOE said. The agency said 24 million hours of supercomputing time out of a total of 1.6 billion available hours at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories will be used by IBM and a team of researchers from those labs and Vanderbilt University to design new materials required for a lithium air battery."

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Re:DOE is serious?

[iamhassi]

"And after the 1.6 billion hours, does the computer self destruct? Just curious"

Sorry I'm back and I have answers.

The Oak Ridge "Jaguar" Supercomputer is the World's Fastest, with 37,376 six-core AMD processors. That puts it at 224,256 processors, so those 24 million hours should be done in 107 hours, or a little more than 4 days.

The 1.6 billion hours comes from the here: "....computing facilities at Oak Ridge and Argonne national laboratories will employ a competitive peer review process to allocate researchers 1.6 billion processor hours in 2010." That works out to be about 297 days.