Fault-slip: AI to simulate tectonic plate deformation

ScienceDaily
Nov 13, 2019, 5:03 pm97 pts
Scientists have transformed the UNICORN computing code into an AI-like algorithm to more quickly simulate tectonic plate deformation due to a phenomenon called a ''fault slip,'' a sudden shift that occurs at the plate boundary. The team ran UNICORN at 416 petaflops and gained a 75-fold speedup from a previous…

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