Gizmodo: How Stanford's Million-Core, Five Dimensional Super Computer Will Silence Jet Engines

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How Stanford's Million-Core, Five Dimensional Super Computer Will Silence Jet Engines Feb 1st 2013, 16:30 The modern day jet engine may be powerful enough to shuttle travelers across a continent in just six hours but it's also unbearably loud—for both the ground crews that work around them and residents within earshot of airports. And while aircraft engineers are developing quieter designs, building and testing these hushed prototypes can run into the six figures. But with the help of Livermore National Labs' supercomputer and some open-source modeling software, commercial airliners may soon be whisper quiet. More »

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