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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."
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
a self-built supercomputer
I thought we where years away from having to defend ourselves against the machines...