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GPUs to Mars: Full-Scale Simulation of SpaceX's Mars Rocket Engine
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SpaceX engineers present at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference on a multi-physics code that simulates the full-scale Raptor methane engine. It covers GPU-based turbulent combustion modeling with adaptive grids and wavelet compression.
HN points to it as evidence of SpaceX's serious simulation capability and as a showcase of GPU compute for CFD.
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