As the oil from BP’s massive spill affects an ever expanding area, scientists have embarked on a crash effort to use one the world’s largest supercomputers to forecast, in 3D, how BP’s massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill will affect coastal areas. The National Science Foundation late last week made an emergency allocation of 1 million compute hours on a supercomputer used at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas to study how the spreading oil from BP’s gusher will affect coastlines.
Researchers Race to Produce 3D Models of BP Oil Spill
May 26, 2010