LONDON: Renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has launched the most powerful shared-memory supercomputer in Europe.
Hawking anticipates that the COSMOS supercomputer , manufactured by SGI and the first system of its kind, will open up new windows on the universe.
During the launch, which is part of the Numerical Cosmology 2012 workshop at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge, Hawking said, "We have made advances in cosmology and particle physics. Cosmology is now a precision science, so we need machines like COSMOS to reach out and touch real universe, to investigate whether our mathematical models are correct," he said.
Hawking added, "I hope that we will soon find an ultimate theory which, in principle , would enable us to predict everything in the universe," he said. "Even if we do find the ultimate theory , we will still need supercomputers to describe how something as big and complex as universe evolves, let alone why humans behave the way they do," he said.
'Saturn's moon Titan is Earth-like'
Titan , Saturn's largest moon is "a weirdly Earth-like place" when it comes to geology, astronomers have claimed. Titan boasts landscapes shaped by the flow of rivers, though they are rivers of liquid methane, not of water. And, like Earth, the surface of Titan is surprisingly free of craters, implying that geological activity is constantly reshaping the moon, as also happens here. "It's a weirdly Earth-like place," Taylor Perron, assistant professor of geology at MIT said, "even with this exotic combination of materials and temperatures" .
Hawking anticipates that the COSMOS supercomputer , manufactured by SGI and the first system of its kind, will open up new windows on the universe.
During the launch, which is part of the Numerical Cosmology 2012 workshop at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge, Hawking said, "We have made advances in cosmology and particle physics. Cosmology is now a precision science, so we need machines like COSMOS to reach out and touch real universe, to investigate whether our mathematical models are correct," he said.
Hawking added, "I hope that we will soon find an ultimate theory which, in principle , would enable us to predict everything in the universe," he said. "Even if we do find the ultimate theory , we will still need supercomputers to describe how something as big and complex as universe evolves, let alone why humans behave the way they do," he said.
'Saturn's moon Titan is Earth-like'
Titan , Saturn's largest moon is "a weirdly Earth-like place" when it comes to geology, astronomers have claimed. Titan boasts landscapes shaped by the flow of rivers, though they are rivers of liquid methane, not of water. And, like Earth, the surface of Titan is surprisingly free of craters, implying that geological activity is constantly reshaping the moon, as also happens here. "It's a weirdly Earth-like place," Taylor Perron, assistant professor of geology at MIT said, "even with this exotic combination of materials and temperatures" .
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