I was able to get access to a big computer at the department I work at. The computer has 64 gigs of ram and 16 CPUs I believe. I'm presently running a 10,000 point vortex simulation. To ensure the time stepping didn't get bogged down, I needed to add a sort of 'force/velocity softening' term, that I've used in N-body problems. I have run, and will continue to do, some checks to ensure the results are reasonable. Here is a 'snap shot' of the simulation that will be done in ~2 weeks (that's how long it will take to process).
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