Ocean model captures diversity of underwater forests

Thursday, March 29, 2007
MIT News   (Browse all news)

Simulation condenses 10 years' evolution into five days of computing - Scientists at MIT have created an ocean model so realistic that the virtual forests of diverse microscopic plants they "sowed" have grown in population patterns that precisely mimic their real-world counterparts.

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