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Nuclear Fusion Simulator Among Software Picked For US's Summit Supercomputer

Posted by samzenpus on from the how-about-a-nice-game-of-chess dept.

An anonymous reader writes Today, The Register has learned of 13 science projects approved by boffins at the US Department of Energy to run on the 300-petaFLOPS Summit. These software packages, selected for the Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR) program, will be ported to the massive parallel machine, and are hoped to make full use of the supercomputer's architecture.They range from astrophysics, biophysics, chemistry, and climate modeling to combustion engineering, materials science, nuclear physics, plasma physics and seismology.

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  1. Re: How about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actaully they built that in the late 70's, its was called Detroit.

  2. No Minecraft? by Nyder · · Score: 2

    Oh, wait, MS bought Minecraft, no wonder they didn't include it.

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  3. Stuck In A Rut by sk999 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Still only 2 GB memory per core. We've been stuck there for more than a decade. Useless piece of iron ...

  4. Re:Who cares about fusion by ceoyoyo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure, because a cheap, clean source of energy wouldn't help with any of those things.

  5. Re:Boffin?? by flatt · · Score: 3, Funny

    WTF is a boffin?

    No one really knows but many of them died to bring us this information.