Jellyfish Use Supercomputing Strategy to Search for Food — mashable.com

The barrel jellyfish isn't just the largest jelly found in the waters around the United Kingdom; it's also one of the animal kingdom's most strategic searchers, according to a new study. To locate the best possible meal in the vast waters of its marine habitat, the barrel jellyfish (Rhizostoma octopus) uses a strategy most commonly associated with the world's fastest supercomputers — an approach known as fast simulated annealing.

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