GPUs to Mars: Full-Scale Simulation of SpaceX's Mars Rocket Engine

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it as evidence of SpaceX's serious simulation capability and as a showcase of GPU compute for CFD.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

insideHPC Report

Topic

rocket engine simulation

Format

talk

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

15

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• The key was the full scale combustion simulator software that SpaceX developed to design the Raptor. This talk was given at NVIDIA GTC 2015 and inspired me to go into manufacturing [VIDEO] title: "GPUs To Mars: Full Scale Simulation of SpaceX's Mars Rocket Engine"

• Here's a fun recent link: [VIDEO] Plenty more options to explore in the links under the video, starting from [LINK] Then there is NVIDIA's CUDA Zone with lists like [LINK]

• There are bigger optimizations than 10X with some of the adaptive grid / wavelet compression stuff. I think these are still 2D, but pretty amazing: [VIDEO]