How to do 3000 years of research in one year

Aircraft engine expert and mechanical engineer Professor Richard Sandberg, in collaboration with General Electric, will use some of the world's fastest computers to complete 3000 years of research in a single year. Professor Sandberg's research will advance engineering design of greener and cleaner methods of air travel.   100 million core computer hours allocated by the US Department of Energy's INCITE program and the Swiss supercomputing centre (CSCS), seek to advance scientific innovations and address critical problems of today's society. "With the computing time we have been awarded we will look at the turbulent flow in components of aircraft engines, such as the low-pressure and high-pressure turbines," said Professor Sandberg from the Melbourne School of Engineering. Although the performance of current turbine has considerably improved over the last decade, it is difficult to make further advances with existing tools. But with the use supercomputers and support from the INCITE and CSCS awards, nearly 3000 years of research could be completed in a year. "If you were to continuously use a desktop or laptop computer with four cores, you would need 25,000,000 hours or 2,854 years to finish your simulations and use 100 million core hours.