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Los Alamos's early Monte Carlo simulations on ENIAC revisited
Original: Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf]
A 2014 paper recounts how Los Alamos scientists turned to the ENIAC in 1947 and 1948 to run Monte Carlo simulations of nuclear processes, a landmark moment in early computing. It details how mathematicians including Stanislaw Ulam and John von Neumann used random sampling on one of the first electronic computers to solve problems in weapons physics, laying groundwork for modern computational science.
Why now: The historical link between nuclear weapons research and the birth of Monte Carlo computing continues to fascinate technologists and historians.
Los Alamos National LaboratoryENIACStanislaw UlamJohn von Neumann
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