Supercomputing and tesla coils

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Original poster: "Godfrey Loudner by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ggreen-at-gwtc-dot-net>

I just got back from 6 days at the Supercomputing Conference 2002 at
Baltimore, Maryland. At a display put on by the Saitama Universities of
Japan, a high performance computer was applied to compute the fields of
various coil arrangements in a matter of minutes and the results were
displayed in a 3-D viewing room. I asked if it could do the same for a tesla
coil and one of the personnel said that it could be computed just as fast.
The problem is the extraordinary cost of the computers. I wonder where we
could gain access to the fantastic computers. Such computers should bring
out the fine structure of tesla coil behavior. I went there to learn how
high performance computers were being used in education. My school cannot
afford such computers, but we are looking into cluster arrangements of small
computers to achieve some level of high performance.

Godfrey Loudner