Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 12/29/2009 - 12:27.
Your estimate of the time (340 years) required to run the simulations is wrong. These applications use ~250 processors in parallel. Thus, burning 3 million CPU hours takes a little over 1 year. Such a project is quite doable.
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Think parallel.
Your estimate of the time (340 years) required to run the simulations is wrong. These applications use ~250 processors in parallel. Thus, burning 3 million CPU hours takes a little over 1 year. Such a project is quite doable.