I'm no physicist so excuse my ignorance if I'm missing something but how can the universe be 180B light-years wide if its only 15.8B years old? Assuming the the big-bang expanded spherically and the fact that it started 15.8B years old that would make the diameter at most 31.6B light-years wide...
Light emitted from matter ejected from the big-bang hasn't had 180B years to travel.
whatever this (Thunder) cluster can do in terms of performance will be peanuts compared to IBM's BlueGene/L, also at LLNL:
360 TeraFlops
~130K processors
http://www.llnl.gov/icc/lc/OCF_resources.html
Having working in academic institutions for the past 4 years, I've never heard of anyone using Excel for numerical computation. IMHO, people who are using Excel for numerical computation probably really don't know what they're doing anyway.
Besides, if another (OSS) algorithm gives quite different results than 'Solver' the problem was probably never well-posed to begin with.
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Are you a graduate student? You could not have better verbalized how grad students feel ... like Alice following the rabbit into the rabbit-hole.
I'm no physicist so excuse my ignorance if I'm missing something but how can the universe be 180B light-years wide if its only 15.8B years old? Assuming the the big-bang expanded spherically and the fact that it started 15.8B years old that would make the diameter at most 31.6B light-years wide ...
Light emitted from matter ejected from the big-bang hasn't had 180B years to travel.
whatever this (Thunder) cluster can do in terms of performance will be peanuts compared to IBM's BlueGene/L, also at LLNL: 360 TeraFlops ~130K processors http://www.llnl.gov/icc/lc/OCF_resources.html
Isn't Gelato the same name used for the linux/itanium (www.gelato.org) project ... me thinks this could be a problem ...
Having working in academic institutions for the past 4 years, I've never heard of anyone using Excel for numerical computation. IMHO, people who are using Excel for numerical computation probably really don't know what they're doing anyway.
Besides, if another (OSS) algorithm gives quite different results than 'Solver' the problem was probably never well-posed to begin with.