Interesting how stuff comes together like Lego blocks. A surfer-dude
physicist, Garrett Lisi, has probably solved the Theory of Everything,
the theory that will explain everything in physics; this will probably
put an end to the previous frontrunner for Theory of Everything called
Superstring Theory. He did this after a supercomputer solved the
equations for a mathematical matrix known as E8, earlier this year. The
computer used was based on Opteron, called SAGE, at the Univ. of Washington.
Physicist solves Theory of Everything:
Einstein on a snowboard - Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle2889309.ece
Mathematicians solve E8 matrix on which the physics theory was based:
Mathematicians Team Up with Supercomputer to Crack 248-Dimensional
Object: Scientific American
"Adams says that the challenge was finding a supercomputer with enough
RAM (random-access memory) to perform the task. The group finally
settled on a machine called Sage at the University of Washington, with
64 gigabytes of RAM."
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=...FD18F17&page=1
Description of computer system used to solve E8 matrix:
SAGE: System for Algebra and Geometry Experimentation
"It is a special-purpose 64-bit computer built by Western Scientific
that has 64GB of RAM and 16 AMD Opteron cores. "
http://www.sagemath.org/sage.html
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