State-Of-The-Art Supercomputer Will Help Us Tackle Nuclear Fusion
By Alfredo Carpineti
28 Aug 2018, 18:13
Nuclear fusion promises unlimited clean energy by harnessing the physics at the core of stars. Progress towards such a power plant has been steady, but the difficulties in actually getting fusion to be tamed are several. To tackle some of them, we will soon get the help of a state-of-the-art supercomputer.
“Accelerated Deep Learning Discovery in Fusion Energy Science†is one of 10 Early Science Projects on data science and machine learning for the Aurora supercomputer, which is being developed by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. It will be operational by 2021, and it will perform 1 billion billion calculations per second – 50 to 100 times faster than the most powerful supercomputer today.
https://www.iflscience.com/technology/supercomputer-will-help-us-tackle-nuclear-fusion/
