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Solving an Earth-Sized Jigsaw Puzzle

Posted by samzenpus on from the get-the-edges-first dept.

aarondubrow writes "Three years ago, researchers from Caltech and The University of Texas at Austin came together to create a computational tool that could model the Earth and answer the most pressing questions in geophysics: What controls the speed of plates? How do microplates interact? How much energy do the plates generate and how does it dissipate? Using a new geodynamics software package they developed, the researchers have modeled plate motion with greater accuracy than ever before. The project is also a finalist for the Gordon Bell Prize — high performance computing's Oscar — at this year's SC10 conference."

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  1. The answer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    42.

    1. Re:The answer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Bull, my wife moves the plates to the dinner table.

  2. SC10? by juletre · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There is a StarCraft 10 ? Why I am still playing SC2 ?

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    1. Re:SC10? by Canazza · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's not 10, it's Binary, you're still good.

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  3. String beans to Utah by Hognoxious · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    # Ah, the wife
    (Ah, the wife)
    Oh, the waitress
    (And the waitress too)

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