Record simulations conducted on Lawrence Livermore supercomputer
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have performed record simulations using all 1,572,864 cores of Sequoia, the largest supercomputer in the world. Sequoia, based on IBM BlueGene/Q architecture, is the first machine to exceed one million computational cores. It also is No. 2 on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers, operating at 16.3 petaflops (16.3 quadrillion floating point operations per second).
Image: OSIRIS simulation on Sequoia of the interaction of a fast-ignition-scale laser with a dense DT plasma. The laser field is shown in green, the blue arrows illustrate the magnetic field lines at the plasma interface and the red/yellow spheres are the laser-accelerated electrons that will heat and ignite the fuel.
Source and further reading:
https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2013/Mar/NR-13-03-05.html
References:
https://plasmasim.physics.ucla.edu/codes/osiris
http://archive.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-01-28/stanford_lights_up_one_million_sequoia_cores.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power#D-T_fuel_cycle
"...electrons that will heat and ignite the fuel...." This is super interesting Corina Marinescu ; is there a relation between wavelength of light and electrons?
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