I agree that modeling nuclear detonations take a lot of computing
power. (Somewhere, I read that given all the heavy water w/deuterium in
the Earth's oceans, one could build a nuke powerful enough to implode
and make a small black hole. Anyone interested in doing the
energy/pressure/temperature gas law calculations on that one?) However,
I'm pretty sure that this couldn't be done on a distributed
parallelistic basis. (Is that even a word--parallelistic?)
For the life of me, I can't figure out how to distribute the
mathematics. It seems that each region of the space where the explosion
is happening needs constant information from most of the others (or
maybe just those directly adjacent). How could this be done without
direct connections between the parallel processors?
>From my point of view, comparing GIMPS with Pacific Blue seems as useful
as comparing apples and oranges, or maybe uranium-235 and carbon-14.
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Blake Stacey
Executive Director of Programming
HyperSphere Software
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No junk bond is ergonomic.
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