What kind of humongous tasks do supercomputers do? What type of mathematical models can be so complex that it requires a computer close to $1B?

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What kind of humongous tasks do supercomputers do? What type of mathematical models can be so complex that it requires a computer close to $1B?

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You would be surprised how much computational power “simple models” need, and its more like those tasks could always do with a bit more computer time, without a fixed amount “computer hours” required.

Also academics write bad code.