by InnovationNewsDaily Staff
Supercomputers allow the U.S. to virtually test nuclear weapons without plunging back into the Cold War — but undetected computing errors can corrupt or even crash such simulations involving 100,000 networked machines. The problem energized researchers to make an automated system for catching computer glitches before they spiral out of control.
The solution involved eliminating a “central brain” server that could not keep up with streaming data from thousands of machines — researchers organized the supercomputing cluster of machines by “classes” based on whether machines ran similar processes. That clustering tactic makes it possible to quickly detect any supercomputing glitches.
Weapons Simulations Push Supercomputing Limits
June 8th, 2012 · No Comments
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