Back when I was an undergrad minion at the University of Minnesota Supercomputer Center, they had a US government contract to run the US Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC). I was one of the sysadmins for the University’s Cray-2 and Connection Machine.
Shortly after Carl Sagan began pushing his nuclear winter doomsday scenario in the media, we were given a rush job from the Army to run a mesoscale atmospheric circulation model. I had a hunch it might have been quickly declassified. I later heard that NASA/Ames and some other HPC sites were also given similar codes to run.
We ran the model and reported back to the Army that there was no significant occlusion of the atmosphere. I think the other HPC sites came to the same conclusion.
Carl Sagan was talking out of his ass.
Shortly after Carl Sagan began pushing his nuclear winter doomsday scenario in the media, we were given a rush job from the Army to run a mesoscale atmospheric circulation model. I had a hunch it might have been quickly declassified. I later heard that NASA/Ames and some other HPC sites were also given similar codes to run.
We ran the model and reported back to the Army that there was no significant occlusion of the atmosphere. I think the other HPC sites came to the same conclusion. Carl Sagan was talking out of his ass.
Civ - Gideon7 knows what he talking about - backing you up... enjoy.
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