Sunday, October 01, 2006

SuperComputer Lecture. 2005

Weather readings taken every 6 hrs over a 12km grid which is 70 levels high
= 2*10 to 15 calcs.
Would take 3 months on PC.
So process in parallel.
Climate modeling much larger 100km. Usually over 100yrs.

Physics /Chem model individual particles.
Eg 10 billion particles! .5 million light yr grid.
Wires in chips down to 5 atoms wide.

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