A mathematical trick speeds up seismic calculations for earthquake simulations and could revolutionize earthquake preparedness.

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Is your life really your life, or is it actually the dream of a butterfly? Or is it a complex computer simulation indistinguishable from “real” reality? Don’t worry, it’s just a glitch in the Matrix.

Neuromorphic computers modeled after the human brain can now solve the complex equations behind physics simulations — something once thought possible only with energy-hungry supercomputers. The ...

A physicist has mounted one of the most detailed technical challenges yet against the idea that our universe is a computer simulation, arguing that the energy required to run such a program would ...

The MathWorks said that Argonne National Laboratory used tools from The MathWorks – Parallel Computing Toolbox and MATLAB Distributed Computing Server – to help reduce from two weeks to one day the ...

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