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eppur_se_muova

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2. Is there an order of magnitude estimate of how many gigaflop-hrs are needed to do such calculations?

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Wed Jun 21, 2017, 03:23 PM

Jun 2017

Considering all the nuclear explosions that have been simulated in supercomputers, and that QM simulations of solids are being carried out on very large chunks of lattices, it seems a little strange that no one has gotten around to doing these calculations before -- or is it just a matter of priorities ?

(BTW, I don't have access to ACS journals, so I can't get that from the articles.)

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Paper on the Equation of State for High Efficiency Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Driven Turbines. [View all] NNadir Jun 2017 OP

Interesting. Thanks for taking the time to put that together n/t Victor_c3 Jun 2017 #1

My pleasure. I wrote it down to clear it in my head and chose to post it here in case anyone was... NNadir Jun 2017 #4

Is there an order of magnitude estimate of how many gigaflop-hrs are needed to do such calculations? eppur_se_muova Jun 2017 #2

There have been a number of papers written on the topic of reducing the complexity of... NNadir Jun 2017 #3