Published: April 8, 2021

Iain Boyd

Boyd

IRT Director Iain Boyd was recently quoted in a Washington Post in a story on China efforts to build advanced weapons systems using American chip technology. Speaking as as the director of the center for National Security Initiatives at the university, Boyd addressed the role of super computing in hypersonics research. 

"Hundreds to thousands of different configurations of heat, vehicle lift and atmospheric drag need to be analyzed tomake a hypersonic missile work, which would be too expensive and time-consuming through physical testing alone,said Iain Boyd, Director of the Center for National Security Initiatives at the University of Colorado, Boulder. 'If you didn’t have supercomputers it could take a decade,’ he said." – Washington Post, 2021
 

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