The apparent early thermalization of quark-gluon plasma produced at RHIC and LHC has motivated a number of studies of equilibration in strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory using the AdS/CFT correspondence. I will present the results of such numerical simulations of Bjorken flow aimed at establishing typical features of the dynamics. In these simulations a large number of far from equilibrium initial states was evolved well into the hydrodynamic regime. The results strongly suggest that early thermalization is generic in this theory, taking place at proper times around 0.6 in units of inverse local temperature. I will also discuss some observed regularities, such as the fact that the scale which determines the rate of hydrodynamic cooling appears to be linearly correlated with the entropy of initial states defined by the area of the apparent horizon in the dual geometry.

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