Re: [Phys-L] physics applets running on the graphics card

[Sergey Sukhotinsky <s.sukhotinsky@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Bill Nettles <bnettles@uu.edu> wrote:
> The following is not suitable for high-school students.  It
> is for mad scientists only.  Suppose you are crazy enough,
> and suppose you want really high performance -- hundreds of
> gigaflops -- running on your desktop, and portable to
> somebody else's desktop as well.  Then you can run physics
> programs on the graphics card!
>
> A particularly physicsy example calculates the probability
> density for the hydrogenic wavefunctions.  I recommend
> everybody should take a look at the following:
>   http://www.ibiblio.org/e-notes/webgl/chem/vb/ao_p_col.html
>
> Note that the Schrödinger solution is calculated not by
> javascript code, but rather by a gnarly shader program
> that runs in the GPU.

A real true mad scientist would do the job in a 20nm FPGA From Xilinx :-)
http://www.xilinx.com/about/generation-ahead-20nm/