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

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?

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.

"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/