Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015)
by jabl on Sunday October 15, 2017 @02:17PM
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IIRC there was some project doing more or less real-time weather forecasts for small areas (think airports and such) that used deep learning instead of traditional CFD style simulations. They were able to do it with several orders of magnitude less CPU usage than the CFD calculations.
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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015)
by sidlls on Sunday October 15, 2017 @02:56PM
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But was it more accurate? Was it for the same purpose? Getting within a few percent of a CFD model might be good enough for industrial use. For studying systems (from the perspective of scientific investigation) it's not even close.