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Supercomputers Often Run Outdated Software
By admin | September 24, 2009
Supercomputers Often Run Outdated Software
Washington–Supercomputers keep breaking records for processing speed, but software to operate them has not kept up with that increasingly zippy hardware. The often-rickety supercomputing computer code is becoming an obstacle to making better weather models, medical simulations, and other applications of high-performance computers, said experts at a conference here Wednesday on the future of academic supercomputing.
“Codes are still being used from the 1960s,” said Ed
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