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Article: ALBUQUERQUE DUO WINS 2008 NEW MEXICO SUPERCOMPUTING CHALLENGE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 22, 2008
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The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following press release:
Modeled spacecraft's re-entry into the atmosphere
Budding scientists from Albuquerque, Erika DeBenedictis of St. Pius X High School and Tony Huang of La Cueva, captured the top prize Tuesday during the 2008 New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge award ceremony hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The team's project, "An Analysis of Direct Simulation Monte Carlo and Its Application to Simulating Supersonic Shockwaves," modeled a spacecraft's reentry into the atmosphere. Each student on the winning team earned $1,000. Their teacher received a projection system.
The Supercomputing Challenge is ...