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    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7443557.stm
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      Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
      It will be installed at a US government laboratory later this year where it will monitor the US nuclear stockpile.
      Can someone here please explain why you need the worlds fastest supercomputer (runs at petaflops) to monitor a stockpile of nuclear weapons that just sit there?


      Seems like a bollox explanation to me. I would have thought a spreadsheet could monitor a pile of things that just gather dust?

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        Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
        Can someone here please explain why you need the worlds fastest supercomputer (runs at petaflops) to monitor a stockpile of nuclear weapons that just sit there?


        Seems like a bollox explanation to me. I would have thought a spreadsheet could monitor a pile of things that just gather dust?
        I'd imagine it's more for modelling rather than monitoring. I expect it's quite hard to simulate 100s of tonnes of uranium (or whatever) decaying in a vault.

        Either that or it's for the beancounters to play Crysis at a kick-ass resolution.
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