Now THAT'S a big simulation

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Now THAT'S a big simulation

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did you mean simulation? The article mentions graphics & supercomputer. Do supercomputers have graphics cards? Or would this be something like SETI, working with a supercomputer?
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Ricorocks wrote:he article mentions graphics & supercomputer. Do supercomputers have graphics cards? Or would this be something like SETI, working with a supercomputer?
That depends. Previous generations of supercomputers were CPU-based with a huge number of parallel processing paths. Many modern supercomputers may also be constructed with a huge number of GPUs (since you don't need as many of them as you need CPUs to solve the same simulation.) Thos GPUs are rarely connected to a screen since most of the time, nobody would be watching it.

Note that a FAH simulation proceeds at a very slow rate compared to the video that may be made from it. The same is true for that simulation. FAH's viewer doesn't run in either real-time or at the rate the video would portray.
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"While computing power is mostly associated with CPUs, over the years, the credit has started to shift towards the GPUs. In this year’s rankings, around 56% TFlops of additional flops were a result of Nvidia Tesla GPUs running in supercomputers." - https://fossbytes.com/top500-most-power ... -by-linux/
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