Trinity to Trinity 1945-2015
Abstract
The Trinity Test of July 16, 1945 was the first full-scale, real-world test of a nuclear weapon; with the new Trinity supercomputer Los Alamos National Laboratory's goal is to do this virtually, in 3D. Trinity was the culmination of a fantastic effort of groundbreaking science and engineering by hundreds of men and women at Los Alamos and other Manhattan Project sites. It took them less than two years to change the world. The Laboratory is marking the 70th anniversary of the Trinity Test because it not only ushered in the Nuclear Age, but with it the origin of today’s advanced supercomputing. We live in the Age of Supercomputers due in large part to nuclear weapons science here at Los Alamos. National security science, and nuclear weapons science in particular, at Los Alamos National Laboratory have provided a key motivation for the evolution of large-scale scientific computing. Beginning with the Manhattan Project there has been a constant stream of increasingly significant, complex problems in nuclear weapons science whose timely solutions demand larger and faster computers. The relationship between national security science at Los Alamos and the evolution of computing is one of interdependence.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1208840
- Resource Type:
- Multimedia
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; LITTLE BOY; BATMAN; PLUTONIUM; TRINITY; TEST; NUCLEAR TEST; MANHATTAN PROJECT; TRINITY COMPUTER; COMPUTING; THERMONUCLEAR; NUCLEAR STOCKPILE; ASC; VECTOR
Citation Formats
Moniz, Ernest, Carr, Alan, Bethe, Hans, Morrison, Phillip, Ramsay, Norman, Teller, Edward, Brixner, Berlyn, Archer, Bill, Agnew, Harold, and Morrison, John. Trinity to Trinity 1945-2015. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web.
Moniz, Ernest, Carr, Alan, Bethe, Hans, Morrison, Phillip, Ramsay, Norman, Teller, Edward, Brixner, Berlyn, Archer, Bill, Agnew, Harold, & Morrison, John. Trinity to Trinity 1945-2015. United States.
Moniz, Ernest, Carr, Alan, Bethe, Hans, Morrison, Phillip, Ramsay, Norman, Teller, Edward, Brixner, Berlyn, Archer, Bill, Agnew, Harold, and Morrison, John. Thu .
"Trinity to Trinity 1945-2015". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1208840.
@article{osti_1208840,
title = {Trinity to Trinity 1945-2015},
author = {Moniz, Ernest and Carr, Alan and Bethe, Hans and Morrison, Phillip and Ramsay, Norman and Teller, Edward and Brixner, Berlyn and Archer, Bill and Agnew, Harold and Morrison, John},
abstractNote = {The Trinity Test of July 16, 1945 was the first full-scale, real-world test of a nuclear weapon; with the new Trinity supercomputer Los Alamos National Laboratory's goal is to do this virtually, in 3D. Trinity was the culmination of a fantastic effort of groundbreaking science and engineering by hundreds of men and women at Los Alamos and other Manhattan Project sites. It took them less than two years to change the world. The Laboratory is marking the 70th anniversary of the Trinity Test because it not only ushered in the Nuclear Age, but with it the origin of today’s advanced supercomputing. We live in the Age of Supercomputers due in large part to nuclear weapons science here at Los Alamos. National security science, and nuclear weapons science in particular, at Los Alamos National Laboratory have provided a key motivation for the evolution of large-scale scientific computing. Beginning with the Manhattan Project there has been a constant stream of increasingly significant, complex problems in nuclear weapons science whose timely solutions demand larger and faster computers. The relationship between national security science at Los Alamos and the evolution of computing is one of interdependence.},
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year = {Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
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