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olao99 ◴[19 Nov 24 21:23 UTC] No.42188229[source]▶

I fail to understand how these nuclear bomb simulations require so much compute power.

Are they trying to model every single atom?

Is this a case where the physicists in charge get away with programming the most inefficient models possible and then the administration simply replies "oh I guess we'll need a bigger supercomputer"

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1. alephnerd ◴[19 Nov 24 21:33 UTC] No.42188324[source]▶

>>42188229 #

> I fail to understand how these nuclear bomb simulations require so much compute power

I wrote a previous HN comment explaining this:

Tl;dr - Monte Carlo Simulations are hard and the NPT prevents live testing similar to Bikini Atoll or Semipalatinsk-21

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39515697

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