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Foil 16 NASA's Estimate of Computing Needs for Reynolds Averaged Approximation (1994)

From CPS615-Physical Simulation Techniques and Structure of CFD Equations Delivered Lectures of CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- 14 November 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
Secs 129.6
1 Flow Simulation ( Reynolds Averaged Approximation ):
  • 5x106 grid points
  • 5x104 iterations
  • 5x103 operations/iterations
  • 1015 operations (flops) / problem
  • 2x108 words of memory
    • Hours GigaFlops
2 Proof of concept 1000-->100 0.3-->3
  • Design 10-->1 30-->300
3 Automated Design 0.1-->0.01 3000-->30,000

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