Re:In a First, an Entire Organism Is Simulated by Software
by ahalan on Friday July 20, 2012 @05:03PM
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Porting researchy Matlab code to optimized Fortran or C could potentially give you the same results as throwing more hardware at the problem, but cheaper and probably faster.
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Re:In a First, an Entire Organism Is Simulated by Software
by gwern on Friday July 20, 2012 @06:36PM
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But unless the optimizations change the complexity, you're still going to be very limited: the constant factors may let you go from 1 cell in Matlab to 100 cells in C on the same hardware, but that's still just 100 cells and now you're stuck.