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Old 11-13-2012, 01:22 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Super computer to the Rescue?

America's Titan Supercomputer Is the Fastest in the World
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And what the hell is all that computational crunching power used for? Well, Titan is housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where it's used to perform calculations for materials research, nuclear energy research, and analysis of techniques which can make combustion engines more efficient. As well as dabbling in climate modeling. No biggy, then, obviously

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Old 11-13-2012, 06:56 PM   #2 (permalink)
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All worthy causes but for that last one.
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"nuclear energy research"?
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Old 11-15-2012, 06:25 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Climate modeling.
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I see where you're going with that but I was keying on "worthy" not "last".

I was expecting you to defend nuclear as *necessary* evil.

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