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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. 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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  2. 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?