The Connection Machine
I found a fascinating article about the work of Richard Feynman. While I was at university I did a brief research project into the simulation of genetic algorithms using cellular automata, but I had no idea that Richard had tackled the same kind of problem in 1983 whilst working at Connection Machines.
He outclassed me though. I guess that’s why he has a Nobel prize, and I don’t ;)
My simulation ran as a 500 virtual-node cluster connected as a simple two-dimensional grid. Richard’s ran on a 1,000,000 node cluster connected as a 20-dimension hypercube.
He simulated turbulent flow in fluids. I simulated the growth of rabbit populations ;)