Peering into the Universe’s Dark Matter

Science

Peering into the Universe’s Dark Matter

A research team from the University of California, Santa Cruz, have used the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Summit supercomputer to run one of the most complete cosmological models yet to probe the properties of dark matter — the hypothetical cosmic web of the universe that largely remains a mystery…

Coury TurczynJuly 5, 2023

Technology

Team Publishes Massive Dataset Unravelling Details of the Expanding Universe

A team led by researchers at the Flatiron Institute and the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has published the largest amount of data for a publication to date on the Constellation service at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). The data includes models, collectively dubbed the AbacusSummit…

Rachel McDowellOctober 27, 2021

OLCF History

OLCF 25: Illuminating Dark Matter

In 2017, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility celebrated 25 years of leadership in high-performance computing. This article is part of a series summarizing a dozen significant contributions to science enabled by OLCF resources. The full report is available here. In 2007, researchers shone a galactic-sized light on the dark matter…

OLCF Staff WriterDecember 6, 2017

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