Pushing Particles – The Enduring Correlation between Monte Carlo Neutron Transport and High Performance Computing

During the Manhattan Project, physicists and mathematicians were driven to understand and predict the complex behavior of neutrons undergoing chain reactions as they built the first nuclear reactors and, subsequently, the first atomic weapons. Along the way, analog and digital computers were developed to automate many of the calculations associated with the transport and interaction of radiation with matter. Since the mid-1940s, both the fields of nuclear engineering and computer science have experienced exponential advances. Computers are ubiquitous and integrated into nearly every aspect of our daily lives, but the transcomputable nature of radiation transport still inspires the development of ever larger and more powerful computers.

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