Comment marketing (Score 1) 66
This is just marketing at work.
from TFA:
The real impact of the system may come in the application of these methods to aircraft or automobiles, which use control systems to react to inputs from the environment in order to achieve optimal safety and performance. Examples include traction control in cars and stabilization systems in jet fighters. “If you have sensors feeding in data to the reduced order model system, then it could solve the equation corresponding to the input data, and indicate the appropriate response in real-time based on the calculations you performed on a supercomputer,”
This is how things work already: control systems on a jet fighters do not solve a CFD problem to know how to control the plane, they have a built in model (yeah, "reduced order", if you want to call it this way) that approximate the actual behavior of the plane. Doing it on a smartphone is useless.
Furthermore the article has no details on how the error bounds are claculated.