NASA has created a simulation of how a spiral (disc shaped) galaxy such as the Milky Way forms, over 13.5 billion years. It's two minutes for your inner geek.
The simulation ran on the Pleiades supercomputer at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., and required about one million CPU hours.
Monday, October 22, 2012
13 Billion Years of Galaxy History, in 2 Minutes
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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