Simulating the Universe from its birth to present day – no,
not on a holo-deck or in a computer game, but through a high-fidelity model on
Europe’s most powerful supercomputers – is what Prof. Volker Springel and his
team at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, have
been using an allocation of 20 million core hours on the French Tier-0 system
CURIE for.