Gordon supercomputer used in 61-million-person Facebook experiment
Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 05:30
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org)—A recently published study led by the University of California, San Diego in collaboration with Facebook and done in part using large-scale simulations on the San Diego Supercomputer Center's (SDSC) data-intensive Gordon supercomputer, confirms that peer pressure helps get out the vote while demonstrating that online social networks can affect important real-world behavior.