Simulated Milky Way and Andromeda Collision - Nvidia

For more of the GTC 2012 keynote, visit: Keynote Talk Site. In this segment from the GTC 2012 Keynote, we show NVIDIA Kepler in Action and announce the new Tesla K10 & K20. We show a 280,000 body simulation, using Bonsai code out of the Observatory of Leiden, powered by Kepler.

This shows The Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy slamming into each other in about 6 Billion years (although the first past will be in about 4 Billion). The "Sol" system, ours, has a 50% chance of being thrown out into the void. Of course staying IN the galaxy may not be all that great either as we may spiral inwards toward the highly energetic and very deadly core(s). BUT, the sun will be basically all used up by then anyway, so we better have moved on, unless we figured out something, REALLY neat...

A VERY impressive demonstration of current hardware from Nvidia in the GPU realm allowing all types of work to be done much quicker. From astronomy/cosmology simulations, physics, chemistry, and even finance. The hardware is named The Tesla K10 and K20.

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