A new visitors center will occupy a structure designed to simulate a round barn from "ye olde days" — an oddly Virginian conceit for a site where General Lee's army went down to bloody defeat.
Half of the African pavilion, for example, is designed to simulate a jungle habitat and houses gorillas and bongo antelope, while the other half holds swamplands for such animals as pygmy hippopotamuses and sitatunga antelope.
The new supercomputer is distinguished from other molecular dynamics computing tools like I.B.M.'s BlueGene/L supercomputer and the Stanford Folding@home distributed computing project in that the machine is designed to simulate a very narrow set of problems on biological processes that take place over a millisecond or longer.
The buried charges were designed to simulate a landmine blast.
"I liked that the course was designed to simulate a 'real-life' situation".
This latest test, the first of two planned by Nasa, is designed to simulate a severe, but survivable crash.
The team bred wild salmon with both wild and farmed parr in tanks designed to simulate a stream environment.
The second experiment was designed to simulate a load representing a workload trace from a real web-based system.
Diets were designed to simulate a 'western style' diet (high fat/low protein/low calcium).
Knot configuration was designed to simulate a double-row rotator cuff repair with suture bridges.
The water management and aeration strategies were designed to simulate a shrimp pond system.
