Chinese scientists created the largest virtual universe

in #news7 years ago

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This is insane!!!!

A team of Chinese scientists put the world's faster supercomputer to the test by using it to create the biggest virtual universe. They're calling it a "warm-up exercise" for the machine called Sunway TaihuLight, which used 10 million CPU cores to crunch numbers for the simulation. According to South China Morning Post (SCMP), an English-language newspaper based in Hong Kong, Sunway's universe was five times bigger than the simulation ran by astrophysicists from the University of Zurich back in June. The downside was that it only lasted for an hour, whereas the Swiss simulation lasted 80.

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Wow, I really like this. Do you know is they are using there new computer. D wave or are they more advanced?

I think they are more advanced. 50 million cores is crazy!