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| Ultrafast Supercomputer to Simulate Nuke Explosion | |
| 2004-12-27 | |
Leading nuclear scientists with top security clearances will gather next summer at a screening room east of San Francisco and witness the results of the greatest effort ever in supercomputing. Using a computer doing 360 trillion calculations a second, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Lab will simulate the explosion of an aging nuclear bomb in three dimensions. The short, highly detailed video produced by the world's fastest computer will attempt to illustrate how missiles dating back to the Nixon administration would perform today. "My job ... is to ensure that the nuclear weapons in the stockpile are safe and reliable," said Bruce Goodwin, associate director for defense and nuclear technologies. "Safe means no matter what you do to them they don't go off when they are not supposed to. Reliable means that should the president ever have to use one, it will work exactly as it is supposed to."
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| Posted by:God Save The World |
| #5 Is this what happened to my hard drive last summer? |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2004-12-27 4:25:41 PM |
| #4 The Day After Tomorrow - same, same. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-27 3:51:08 PM |
| #3 âWhen the nuclear scientists see the several-minute-long 3-D simulation from the roughly $100 million computer next summer, will it prove the most expensive animation ever? No, lab officials say, pointing to the current Hollywood film "Polar Express" which used computer animation in a production costing $270 million to make and promote.â LOL. |
| Posted by: Anonymous5032 2004-12-27 3:49:42 PM |
| #2 Just the first step in some real time experiments... |
| Posted by: john 2004-12-27 8:54:26 AM |
| #1 Very Important but let's hope its always just a sim. |
| Posted by: Glereper Thigum7529 2004-12-27 8:35:56 AM |