XSEDE Supercomputers Laid the Foundation for an Unprecedented Simulation of Cosmological Evolution

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An international team of researchers used resources from the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) to develop components that would serve as the basis for "Illustris," the most ambitious simulation of galaxy formation ever done. The project is described in a paper published on May 8, 2014, in the journal Nature.