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Researchers use ALCF’s Aurora exascale supercomputer to carry out massive cosmological simulations

Aurora HPC system

The ALCF's Aurora exascale supercomputer is an Intel-HPE system capable of performing over a quintillion calculations per second.

Credit: Argonne National Laboratory

Each simulation tracked 13.4 trillion dark matter particles across a 28.6-billion-light-year region, creating data to help researchers investigate the early universe and analyse major sky surveys.

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