Computational Simulation of Dust in Plasmas
In 1993-94 my adviser asked me to run the theoretical component of the experiments our group was running in plasma chambers. He asked me to use his VisualBasic code because that way he could understand it. However, in order to do dust-plasma simulations you need to run many-body simulations and with the current code I calculated it would take a few years to generate enough data to complete my thesis. Fortunately, at the time, I was also the network/workstation administrator for the astronomy labs which had 40+ workstations networked via TCP/IP.