Now THAT'S a big simulation

[bruce]

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2 ... ious-jets/

[Ricorocks]

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?

[bruce]

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.

[JimboPalmer]

"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/