PS3 is the worlds fastest computer

[Moscow Mule]

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.

[DimPrawn]

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7443557.stm

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?

[snaw]

That'd be a pretty cool mod to won ...

[Spacecadet]

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7443557.stm