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Re:Intel announces the Aurora supercomputer has broken the e... by magicalhippo on Monday May 13, 2024 @09:09PM (#40350491)
At our university, at least when I studied there some 15 years ago, the whole cluster was occupied doing weather predictions each and every night.

No point in staying up waiting for a job, it'd get rescheduled in the early morning at best.

It wasn't the largest cluster around, IIRC 768 quad-core nodes, but I'm sure the meteorological department would find a way to utilize any extra capacity, so still requiring the whole thing all night.

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Re:Intel announces the Aurora supercomputer has broken the e... by moomin on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @05:50AM (#40353358)
Feels like this might be an invariant in computer science. I once worked on an IBM/360. The majority of the compute was taken up by a single person who did weather simulation.

An IBM/360 has laughably less compute than your phone.

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Re:Intel announces the Aurora supercomputer has broken the e... by nicklecompte on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @06:35AM (#40353655)
"Computational fluid dynamics is hard" seems like a true bona fide CS invariant.
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Re:Intel announces the Aurora supercomputer has broken the e... by phinnaeus on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @06:13AM (#40353515)
It might still have produced a better weather prediction than my phone, though /s
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Re:Intel announces the Aurora supercomputer has broken the e... by Keyframe on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @11:00AM (#40355899)
ENIAC ran weather as well. It's a kind of numerical simulation that will always be in need of compute cycles. We'll need more of it as we go deeper into climate change.
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