Computational plasma physics and supercomputers
John Killeen, Brendan McNamara · University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) · 1984
The Supercomputers of the 80's are introduced. They are 10 to 100 times more powerful than today's machines. The range of physics modeling in the fusion program is outlined. New machine architecture will influence particular codes, but parallel processing poses new coding difficulties. Increasing realism in simulations will require better numerics and more elaborate mathematics.