Stephen Hawking's boffin buds buy HPE HPC to ogle universe

Well, would ya look at that? Hewlett Packard Enterprise has retained a customer. Stephen Hawking's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (COSMOS) has slurped the firm's latest data-crunching HPC system to better understand the universe. The Superdome Flex server was deployed eight days ago at the unit, part of the University of …

[frank ly]

oogles of problems

I tried to Google the universe but had all sorts of problems with the gravitational constant.

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait ... didn't he die years ago and was replaced by a double?

Don't scoff before at least thinking about it. A very useful mouthpiece indeed, for those who wish him to push their agendas.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Wait ... didn't he die years ago and was replaced by a double?

No. Move along you clown.

[danR2]

Until the nature of the greater fraction of matter present in the universe today (MACHOS, WIMPS, whatever...), and dark energy, and/or a tweak in the value of the gravitational inverse square law, is identified, I see little chance of a supercomputed extrapolation of the origins telling us much of anything of the earliest seconds and milliseconds.