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Simulating Galaxies With Supercomputers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the delete-the-pool-ladder-quick dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Over in the UK Durham University is tasking its supercomputing cluster with nothing less than recreating how galaxies are born and evolve over the course of billions of years. Even with 800 AMD processor cores at its disposal the university is still hitting the limits of what is possible."

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  1. Re:800 AMD processor cores by rubycodez · · Score: 3, Informative

    mostly opteron 175 (528 of them at 2.2 GHz with 1056GB RAM totl) and 285 (256 of them at 2.6GHz with 512GB RAM tota), so about 2GB RAM each.

    they run Solaris 10 u3

    http://icc.dur.ac.uk/icc.php?content=Computing/Cosma