  We report on the approach towards the hydrodynamic regime of boost-invariant
N=4 super Yang-Mills plasma at strong coupling starting from various
far-from-equilibrium states at tau=0. The results are obtained through
numerical solution of Einstein's equations for the dual geometries, as
described in detail in the companion article arXiv:1203.0755. Despite the very
rich far-from-equilibrium evolution, we find surprising regularities in the
form of clear correlations between initial entropy and total produced entropy,
as well as between initial entropy and the temperature at thermalization,
understood as the transition to a hydrodynamic description. For 29 different
initial conditions that we consider, hydrodynamics turns out to be definitely
applicable for proper times larger than 0.7 in units of inverse temperature at
thermalization. We observe a sizable anisotropy in the energy-momentum tensor
at thermalization, which is nevertheless entirely due to hydrodynamic effects.
This suggests that effective thermalization in heavy ion collisions may occur
significantly earlier than true thermalization.
