Sentences with phrase «computers over billions of years»

They transform their knowledge about the physical processes forming our universe into mathematical models and simulate the evolution of our universe on high - performance computers over billions of years.

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Snap also revealed that it will spend $ 2 billion with Google Cloud over the next five years and has custom built its software and computer systems to use Google's computing, storage, bandwidth, and other services, some of which do not have an alternative in the market, the company said in the S - 1 filing.

Sales of HP's personal computers sank 13 % year over year to $ 7.5 billion while sales of printers and related supplies dropped 17 % to $ 4.6 billion during the same time period.

Dell lost billions of dollars over the next few years on the puts — they had to shell out over $ 1.2 billion in one year alone to buy back millions of shares of stock that had lost half their value in the previous year — this was more than they made selling computers that year.

Computer simulations (top right) show how the small galaxy has been dismantled and consumed over the course of 4.8 billion years.

They test their hypotheses about the universe by developing mathematical models that describe the underlying complex physical processes and run them on high - performance computers trying to reproduce the evolution of the Universe over billions of years.

Rodriguez and colleagues used 52 detailed computer models to demonstrate how a globular cluster acts as a dominant source of binary black holes, producing hundreds of black hole mergers over a cluster's 12 - billion - year lifetime.

To create their estimate, the researchers took the most recent understanding for how rocks, oceans, and air temperature interact, and put that into a computer simulation of Earth's temperature over the past 4 billion years.

Dierickx and her PhD advisor, Harvard theorist Avi Loeb, used computer models to simulate the movements of the Sagittarius dwarf over the past 8 billion years.

Bailey and her colleagues ran computer simulations that suggest that the tilt of the eight official planets can be explained by the gravitational influence of Planet Nine «over the 4.5 - billion - years - ish lifetime of the solar system,» Bailey told Space.com.

«However, we did computer simulations, which include Hektor being a spinning football shape asteroid and orbiting the Sun, and we found that the moon's orbit is stable over billions of years.»

Urry will conclude with the big picture: the evolution of the universe over the last 13 billion years, as indicated by computer simulations, and future prospects for observing black hole growth and mergers across the cosmos.

Over the last eight years, the district has spent $ 32 million on the hardware systems necessary to track student demographic and performance data districtwide, and another $ 2 million on additional computers that allow teachers to access the system; much of this funding has come from the federal E-Rate program, which has allocated more than $ 10 billion toward Internet infrastructure in K — 12 schools and libraries since 1996 (see «World Wide Wonder?»

In one sense this assertion may be surprising, considering that billions of dollars have been spent on computers and the Internet in American classrooms over the past 15 years.

In a press release earlier this year, Nokia noted that it has invested over $ 120 billion in research and development over the last two decades, and owns tens of thousands of patents that cover technology found in smartphones, tablets, computers, and other electronics.