[Beowulf] Simulating the Universe with a zBox

[Eugen Leitl]

Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/29/1754237
Posted by: michael, on 2005-01-29 19:32:00

   from the simgalaxy dept.
   An anonymous reader writes "Scientists at the University of Zurich
   predict that our galaxy is filled with a quadrillion clouds of dark
   matter with the mass of the Earth and size of the solar system. The
   results in this weeks journal [1]Nature, also covered in [2]Astronomy
   magazine, were made using a six month calculation on hundreds of
   processors of a self-built supercomputer, [3]the zBox. This novel
   machine is a high density cube of processors cooled by a central
   airflow system. I like the initial [4]back of an envelope design.
   Apparently, one of these ghostly dark matter haloes passes through the
   solar system every few thousand years leaving a trail of high energy
   gamma ray photons."


References

   1. http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050124/full/050124-9.html
   2. http://www.astronomy.com/default.aspx?c=a&id=2840
   3. http://krone.physik.unizh.ch/~stadel/zBox/
   4. http://krone.physik.unizh.ch/~stadel/zBox/story.html

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