786,432 cores of the IBM MIRA supercomputer began to model the early Universe

Engineers from the Argonne National Laboratory at the US Department of Energy launched a new IBM MIRA supercomputer. According to the June Top500 rating , MIRA is currently the fifth most powerful supercomputer in the world.

The average performance of MIRA for Linpack test is 8.586 petaflops, peak - 10.066 petaflops. The machine, created by IBM, is based on the Blue Gene / Q architecture. 48 computing clusters are completed with PowerPC A2 processors (a total of 786432 cores). A supercomputer running the Linux operating system (RHEL / CentOS). Power of the car is 3945 KW.

Using the MIRA supercomputer, researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory simulate the processes occurring in the Universe. The computing power of the machine allows you to track the interaction of trillions of particles during the process of expanding matter. Scientists want to create a model of the early Universe and observe its development from the time of the Big Bang to the present (13.7 billion years later). What research will lead to, we hope to find out in the near future! :)
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