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Monday, July 14, 2014

ASC program

As a former NNSA Lab employee, I have followed the ASC program from the original ASCI initiative.  There has been plenty of hype, but also some good science.  Is it about time for a critical discussion of how far scientific computing - particularly MP computing - can go to serve the NW mission?  By the way, how many of the more important problems actually scale on the new machines?

Dan Segalman

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I see why having a strong supercomputing program is important to maintaining US leadership in this field (industrially). So whatever application they pick is fine by me, whether it's NW, weather prediction, genomics, cryptography, spying, or whatever.

Anonymous said...

I think most of the stockpile was designed by very smart people using calculators, slide rules and tests, no?

We some of the later ones designed with early codes?

Anonymous said...

Your timeline is off by about 20 years. The first ones were designed using stone tools, and the later ones were designed using iron slide rules and tests.

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