Goal 6: Anticipate threats with science and technology: Achievement 11

ACHIEVEMENT

Supercomputer simulation of large portion of universe performed by Lab team

Lab researchers completed one of the largest cosmological supercomputer simulations ever undertaken. Under the name Enzo, the experiment crammed 2.5 percent of the visible universe into a model of a region more than 1.5 billion light-years across.

Large-scale simulations such as Enzo open the door to better astronomical observation techniques and a better understanding of the evolution of the universe.