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Tackling the Big Bang with GPU Supercomputers

BY on January 31, 2012 in Supercomputing
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Life’s full of unanswered questions, but at least one is being addressed with the help of a new GPU supercomputer at Bielefeld University, near Hannover Germany. The university is delving deep into the physics of matter in the moments after the Big Bang. To help carry out the complex simulations required to research quantum chromodynamics....

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