Supercomputing, There's an App For That

aarondubrow writes "Researchers at MIT have created an experimental system for smart phones that allows engineers to leverage the power of supercomputers for instant computation and analysis. The team performed a series of expensive high-fidelity simulations on the Ranger supercomputer to generate a small "reduced model" which was transferred to a Google Android smart phone. They were then able to solve engineering and fluid flow problems on the phone and visualize the results interactively. The project proved the potential for reduced order methods to perform real-time and reliable simulations for complicated problems on handheld devices."

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Re:appx.

[flaming error]

It sounds like the supercomputer generated an algorithm for the smartphone to run. I guess they can call that "leveraging the power of a supercomputer" but implying the phone app is doing supercomputing stretches things a bit far. I call misleading headline.