The Milky Way contains a disk of "dark matter," according to new calculations by astronomers. They have used the results of a supercomputer simulation to deduce the presence of this disk.
... a team of scientists who will expend 22 million computational hours during the next year on one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, simulating an event that takes less than five seconds.
A University of Sydney science student has used supercomputer simulations of an ancient hothouse climate to unravel how the Earth heated up about 13 million years before humans existed.
Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes may be able to detect. The research ...
Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes may be able to detect. The research ...
... Laboratory received the prestigious 2008 Association for Computing Machinery Gordon Bell Prize Thursday after attaining the fastest performance ever in a scientific supercomputing application.
... a hand-held calculator more than 30,000 years to complete one trillion calculations.)
The latest supercomputer simulations, led by SDSC researcher Laura Carrington, focused on overcoming a key ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- The worldwide attempt to increase the speed of supercomputers merely by increasing the number of processor cores on individual chips unexpectedly worsens performance for many complex ...
How nanowires evolve under stress has been simulated atom-by-atom over a period of time that is closer than ever to experimental reality, thanks to the new Roadrunner supercomputer.
... real bone. Within 20 minutes, the supercomputer simulation generated 90 Gigabytes of output ... states. Scientists in future aim to advance simulation techniques to go beyond the calculation of static ...
Astronomers have proposed a new theory for the formation of dwarf galaxies. Researchers solve several outstanding problems by comparing observed dwarfs to supercomputer simulations of their formation.
... do dimpled golf balls fly farther and straighter? Supercomputer simulation shows the fine details. Sporting goods companies have been relying upon trial and error to create ...
... sizes as large as our Solar System, have long been expected since the mid 1980ies, but the team could - for the first time - study the intricate wave properties using new supercomputer simulations.
... and form new stars.
The discovery of these protostars corroborates recent theoretical work, in which a supercomputer simulation produced star formation within a few light-years of the Milky Way's ...
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The climate system would stabilize by about 2100, instead of continuing to warm.
The researchers used supercomputer simulations to compare a business-as-usual scenario to one with dramatic cuts in ...
