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Simulating Supernovae with Graphics Cards

Posted by timothy on from the gforce-9-from-outer-space dept.

astroboy writes "As graphics cards get more powerful, Los Alamos and Utah scientists have developed a package, Scout, to use those usually-languishing FLOPs to do simulations, and to visualize of them on the on the run. As an example, they have released movie of part of the evolution of a core-collapse supernovae"

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  1. Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these? by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 3, Funny


    From TFA:


    To make the technology much more powerful, McCormick is working on a version of Scout that will work when several computers are linked together.

    I guess they can.

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  2. They can do this.... by Bloodlent · · Score: 4, Funny

    But they can't bring back Suprnova? Dammit! How am I gonna get my Desperate Housewives?!

  3. Ulterior motive? by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 5, Funny


    From TFA:


    Peter Schröder, a computer simulation expert at the California Institute of Technology, believes graphics processors have great potential for scientific research. "There is a real market driving this hardware that we can use for scientific computation," he told New Scientist.

    Actually, Peter and his buds just got sick of getting scragged in DeathMatch because the video cards in their lab computers are teh SUXX0R.
    Now, they have a blank check to get whatever video cards they want.

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  4. I must say by Pretendstocare · · Score: 1, Funny

    worst video ever....

  5. "Captain, the servers, they cannae take no more!" by Chris+Tucker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, you've destroyed those nice scientists computers.

    Go to your rooms and I want you to think long and hard about what you've done!

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  6. Been there done that by a_greer2005 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have seen graphics cards go supernova - just overclock one and you can see it too...FOR REAL, no 3D sim crap,..

  7. I myself have done similar things on Linux by Winckle · · Score: 5, Funny

    boot up the GIMP: filters>light effects>supernova dunno what the big deal is?

  8. I'd have thought it obvious. by jd · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now they've simulated supernovae on their graphics cards, they want to try creating one for real in their web server.

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  9. Oh, the irony by smoany · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course, in my hurry to post my response, I let a few big editing slips pass by...

    It should be "Slip by" not "Slip be"

    Also, it should read "facts" not "fact's".

    Oh well. I never said I was good at editing, only that New Scientist should have been.

  10. MPAA Cease and desist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC.
    15503 VENTURA BOULEVARD
    ENCINO, CALIFORNIA 91436
    UNITED STATES
    PHONE: (818) 728-8127
    Email: MPAA23@pacbell.net
    Anti-Piracy Operations

    Date: June 11, 2005

    Dear slavemowgli:

    The Motion Picture Association of America is authorized to act on behalf of the following copyright owners:

    Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Disney Enterprises, Inc. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. Paramount Pictures Corporation TriStar Pictures, Inc. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation United Artists Pictures, Inc. United Artists Corporation Universal City Studios, Inc. Warner Bros., a Division of Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P.

    We have knowledge that you posted a torrent to one of our client's movie (The Scout : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111094/) and are demanding that you withdraw this link at once.

    Failure to do so will make you loose more then just your modpoints :P ...