How cosmological supercomputers evolve the universe all over again

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Submission + - How cosmological supercomputers evolve the universe all over again (ieee.org)

Submitted by the_newsbeagle on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @10:48AM

the_newsbeagle writes: To study the mysterious phenomena of dark matter and dark energy, astronomers are turning to supercomputers that can simulate the entire evolution of the universe. One such simulation, the Bolshoi projection, recently did a complete run-through. It started with the state the universe was in around 13.7 billion years ago (not long after the Big Bang) and modeled the evolution of dark matter and energy up to the present day. The run used 14,000 CPUs on NASA's fastest supercomputer.

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