Article ID: CBB001451241

Los Alamos Bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo Simulations, 1947--1948 (2014)

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n April 1948 a team including John and Klara von Neumann and Nick Metropolis ran the first of a series of calculations on ENIAC. These were not only the first computerized Monte Carlo simulations, but also the first code written in the modern paradigm, usually associated with the "stored program concept," ever to be executed. This article--the third in a three-part series published in Annals--reconstructs the planning, design, code, and operation of these programs from extensive archival records.

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Authors & Contributors
Rope, Crispin
Haigh, Thomas
Guy C. Fedorkow
Priestly, Mark
Little, Joyce Currie
Tinn, Honghong
Concepts
Computers and computing
Computer Simulation
ENIAC (Computer)
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
History of Computing
Computer science
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
New Mexico (U.S.)
Americas
Japan
Germany
France
Institutions
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Control Data Corporation
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S.)
Harvard University
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
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