EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONSORTIUM STARTS DEVELOPING ITER COMPUTER SYSTEMS
June 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CONSORTIUM of 14 research teams from across Europe has been formed to create a computer simulation of the international ITER fusion reactor, to model the technology required to operate it safely. The European Union (EU)-funded Euro 3.65 million EUFORIA project will forge a network of high-powered computers with sufficient capacity to undertake this modelling, which will involve massive amounts of data.
"We try to link the different computer architectures such that the strengths of the respective architecture are made use of to the full ...
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