{"id":200209,"date":"2024-11-26T11:23:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/record-breaking-run-on-frontier-sets-new-bar-for-simulating-the-universe-in-exascale-era"},"modified":"2024-11-26T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:23:18","slug":"record-breaking-run-on-frontier-sets-new-bar-for-simulating-the-universe-in-exascale-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/record-breaking-run-on-frontier-sets-new-bar-for-simulating-the-universe-in-exascale-era","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking run on Frontier sets new bar for simulating the universe in exascale era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FrontierE-2D\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1031341849?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The universe just got a whole lot bigger\u2014or at least in the world of computer simulations, that is. In early November, researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s Argonne National Laboratory used the fastest supercomputer on the planet to run the largest astrophysical simulation of the universe ever conducted.<\/p>\n<p>The achievement was made using the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The calculations set a new benchmark for cosmological hydrodynamics simulations and provide a new foundation for simulating the physics of atomic matter and dark matter simultaneously. The simulation size corresponds to surveys undertaken by large telescope observatories, a feat that until now has not been possible at this scale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are two components in the universe: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dark+matter\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dark matter <\/a>\u2014which as far as we know, only interacts gravitationally\u2014and conventional matter, or atomic matter,\u201d said project lead Salman Habib, division director for Computational Sciences at Argonne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe just got a whole lot bigger\u2014or at least in the world of computer simulations, that is. In early November, researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s Argonne National Laboratory used the fastest supercomputer on the planet to run the largest astrophysical simulation of the universe ever conducted. The achievement was made using the Frontier [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}