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Gaining insight into plasma dynamics with TACC's Stampede supercomputer
These computer-generated graphics are visualizations of data from a simulation of plasma turbulence in the Earth's ionosphere. These same physics are also applied by researchers investigating turbulence in the tokamak, a device used in nuclear fusion experiments.
Physicist Wendell Horton and Lee Leonard use the Texas Advanced Supercomputing Center's (TACC) Stampede computing system to run their simulations, which produces the data in these visualizations. Some of the visualizations are also produced with Stampede.
Stampede is funded by the National Science Foundation through award ACI 11-34872.
You can read more about this research in the TACC news story A deep dive into plasma. (Date of Image: 2014)
Credit: Greg Foss, Anne Bowen, Greg Abram,Texas Advanced Computing Center
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