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Discussion on: Rules are meant to be broken (Galaxy Simulator 🛰 powered by the GPU)

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Mik Seljamaa 🇪🇪

I wonder if Barnes Hut algo is the best there is atm.
Wodnerful job its a task that I have been interested in seeing solved for one galaxy, so tens of billions of objects. How many RASPis and how much time would that take, what do you think?

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Mik Seljamaa 🇪🇪

about a million cores perhaps....

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Mik Seljamaa 🇪🇪

so in about 20 years or sooner we will be able to do it on a single GPU board