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Simulating the Universe with a zBox
An anonymous reader writes "Scientists at the University of Zurich predict that our galaxy is filled with a quadrillion clouds of dark matter with the mass of the Earth and size of the
solar system. The results in this weeks journal Nature, also covered in Astronomy magazine, were made using a six month calculation on hundreds of processors of a self-built supercomputer, the zBox. This novel machine is a high density cube of processors cooled by a central airflow system. I like the initial back of an envelope design. Apparently, one of these ghostly dark matter haloes passes through the solar system every few thousand years leaving a trail of high energy gamma ray photons."
Looks like MS will need to come up with a new name for the Xbox 3.
At the center of the box is a small piece of fairy cake
zBox has been slashdotted, vat do ve do now? Ve relax and eat some cheese and chocolate, jawohl!
...you just slashdotted Switzerland. Who's next, tough guy? Andorra?
Chip H.
All it keeps saying is 42...42...42...42...
You can legislate morally you can't legislate morality
"All 288 CPUs shipped by AMD worked perfectly and none needed to be replaced" My 500Mhz AMD works perfectly... as long as I use reliable software (Linux) not that other product - what's it called again... XPee?
a self-built supercomputer
I thought we where years away from having to defend ourselves against the machines...
Yes, I agree but do you think it would be a handy excuse for speeding? After all when Mr Plod pulls you over and asks the fatefull question that you can ONLY get wrong: "Is there any reason for you to be speeding today?" He's hardly likely to expect you to say that it was a direct result of the "trail of high energy gamma ray photons." flying past... ...suddenly boosting your car's already powerfull turbo and causing you to speed uncontrollably.