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IBM and LLNL Scientists Show How Stuff Breaks

Posted by timothy on from the still-only-1-atom-per-6-humans dept.

Maxim writes: "An unprecedented billion-atom calculation has enabled a team of IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists to demonstrate a major advance in using supercomputers to simulate the strength of materials. Check out the video."

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  1. [OT] Huh? by PoiBoy · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Slightly OT, but I downloaded the 13 meg AVI file and tried playing it with mplayer

    [bpoi@beast]% mplayer frost_disl3med.avi

    MPlayer 0.60-egcs-2.91.66 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

    ...

    Support for win32 codecs disabled, or unavailable on non-x86 platforms! FATAL: Couldn't initialize video codec :(

    How do I remedy this?

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