Note on High Performance Computing
商品編號：9B03E004
出版日期：2003/02/04
再版日期：2009/10/19
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商品主題：Information Systems
商品類型：Note
涵蓋議題：Computer Industry;Defense Strategy;Information Technology;Government and Business;Northeastern
難易度：4 - Undergraduate/MBA
內容長度：7 頁
地域：United States
產業：Public Administration
事件年度：2002
This note discusses the role of supercomputing in nuclear weapons research, from the first UNIVAC system installed in 1953 to the planned installation of a 100 TeraOPS system at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories in 2004. Topics include military and civilian uses for supercomputers, the evolution to parallel processing, the growing importance of open source software such as Linux, and emergent scientific uses, such as genetic sequencing and AIDS research. Traditionally, supercomputers were employed to simulate complex processes that occurred over a specific period of time. For example, a nuclear explosion had a beginning (detonation) and an end. More and more, however, applications began to shift toward analyzing immense databases that contained a seemingly endless number of variables. Despite significant advances in technology, the most powerful computers available still cannot reliably predict the weather for the next week in any significant detail.
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