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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My company buys supercomputer time to run complex weather models. We turn out 2 per day. It takes 2 hours for each model run, and that’s with more than 4000 cores dedicated to the computations. It’s worth it because we can provide very accurate weather information (over the next 48 hours) to paying customers.