The computer science department of the Moscow State University [1] was created in 1970 as a joint effort between Physics and Math departments to address computational needs of Tokamak models. Hence the official name - the department of computational mathematics and cybernetics.
The joke goes that they were hoping to "solve the Tokamak" in a couple of years and then move on to other fields of computer science - a dream that is still very much alive.
That's hilarious. That sort of computation has to be completely trivial with modern computers. It's so crazy to think that plotting a ballistic trajectory ever took more than a few milliseconds, much less hours
I'm not surprised it was hard to compute to the accuracies desired.
I'm not saying the computation isn't complicated, I'm marveling at the fact that my watch can run that computation in microseconds
The next milestone years later would be "predict the weather 24 hours from now in fewer than 24 hours"
A lot of the government's interest in advancing computers was the military advantage of being able to predict the weather. Maybe if it was thoroughly understood, they could even control it! Alas.
All covered in the book "Turings Cathedral"
Some SDEs do take interest in these topics independently, though.
The same things they ask on FAANG interviews, coincidentally.
MIPT - https://mipt.ru/english/edu/master/
There’s everything, including traditional CS topics (compilers etc), AI and quantum informatics.