Re: Supercomputing and tesla coils

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Godfrey,

You may be interested in Paul's simulation of 13,000+ coils on a 14 
processor Beowulf Cluster:

http://www.abelian.demon.co.uk/tssp/vsd/

Only took 30 days ;-)

Cheers,

         Terry

At 08:33 PM 11/20/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>I just got back from 6 days at the Supercomputing Conference 2002 at
>Baltimore, Maryland. At a display put on by the Saitama Universities of
>Japan, a high performance computer was applied to compute the fields of
>various coil arrangements in a matter of minutes and the results were
>displayed in a 3-D viewing room. I asked if it could do the same for a tesla
>coil and one of the personnel said that it could be computed just as fast.
>The problem is the extraordinary cost of the computers. I wonder where we
>could gain access to the fantastic computers. Such computers should bring
>out the fine structure of tesla coil behavior. I went there to learn how
>high performance computers were being used in education. My school cannot
>afford such computers, but we are looking into cluster arrangements of small
>computers to achieve some level of high performance.
>
>Godfrey Loudner