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

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @01:56PM 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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Re: How about by Anonymous Coward · 2015-04-15 14:31 · Score: 5, Funny

Actaully they built that in the late 70's, its was called Detroit.
Re:Who cares about fusion by ceoyoyo · 2015-04-15 15:12 · Score: 5, Funny

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