University of Tennessee

An international team of researchers used resources at UT’s National Institute for Computational Sciences to develop components that would serve as the basis for “Illustris,” a collaborative project which achieved the most ambitious simulation of galaxy formation ever done. Illustris allows one to journey back and see in high detail our universe twelve million years after the Big Bang and then watch the cosmos evolve over a period of 13.8 billion years. To read further, please visit http://tntoday.utk.edu/2014/07/22/xsede-supercomputers-recreate-universe-evolution/.