Simulating Galaxies With Supercomputers

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."

Easier way

[Yvan256]

They should have asked The Doctor to simply record the event when he re-booted the Universe.

Re:Should have...

[An ominous Cow art]

This is nothing. For my kindergarten thesis, I used galaxies to simulate supercomputers.

Obligatory XKCD

[Ryanrule]

Obligatory XKCD http://xkcd.com/505/ [xkcd.com]

Dual GTX 480

[mangu]

800 cores.... that's like 134 CPU's

Or two GPUs [nvidia.com].

If it can run Crysis it can simulate galaxies.

Re:Waste of Time

[damien_kane]

I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe