Wednesday, October 21, 2026
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Aurora supercomputer powers two of the largest cosmological simulations to date

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have completed two of the largest cosmological simulations ever performed. Each simulation modeled the evolution of 13.4 trillion dark matter particles across a region 28.6 billion light-years wide.

Aurora supercomputer powers two of the largest cosmological simulations to date
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have completed two of the largest cosmological simulations ever performed. Each simulation modeled the evolution of 13.4 trillion dark matter particles across a region 28.6 billion light-years wide.

Originally published at Phys.org

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