Computer Graphics Card Simulates Supernova Collapse

by Will Knight NewScientist.com, 10 Jun 2005 New software enabling scientists to perform mind-boggling mathematical calculations and see the results rendered almost instantly on their screens has been released by US researchers. The Scout programming language, developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in California, US, lets scientists run complex calculations on a computer's graphics processing unit instead of its central processing unit (CPU). In tests, the graphics processor was able to perform certain types of calculation 12 times faster than a single CPU. Read the article