“Theorizing that a man could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator - and vanished.” How many of you remember that great 1989 science fiction series called Quantum Leap? I bet a lot of you do! Remember how you would watch Doctor Sam Beckett's journeys every day and fantasize about all sorts of adventures that you yourself could embark upon?

This is not uncommon, mind you, so feel free to admit it. It has been proven scientifically that man is by nature a curious animal. And man's greatest curiosity is knowing what lies beyond the horizon. Being space and time or just space in itself. Another Science Fiction show that I have come to admire due to its Utopian yet quite possible to accomplish ideas is Star Trek. “Space, the final frontier” is something that you and me have used a lot since we first heard Captain Kirk or Jean Luc Picard say them.

This is why NVIDIA and National Taiwan University seek to breach that final frontier not by building an Enterprise of their own but by harnessing the power of NVIDIA's Tesla parallel processors in order to help large-scale computations in the fields of quantum physics, as well as cosmology at an astronomical scale. The end-results might give us a bit of extra insight regarding how the known universe works and what may lie beyond our galaxy.

“It’s deeply rewarding to see NVIDIA Tesla GPUs helping professionals and researchers achieve amazing breakthroughs in their work,” said Andy Keane, general manager, Tesla business, NVIDIA. “The exceptional speed-up being seen by NTU has the ability to dramatically accelerate the research into one of life’s biggest and most complex scientific challenges.”

Feel free to fantasize, my friends! Who knows, maybe it won't be long until we get a real live Jean Luc Picard to “boldly go where no man has gone before.”


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