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Results of computationally intensive simulations, aimed at studying processes in the Earth’s mantle, can now be admired by the visitors of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City. The newly added permanent exhibit was made possible thanks to a research project led by Professor Hans-Peter Bunge of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (LMU) run on HPC system SuperMUC of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ).

A multidisciplinary team recreated the 2004 Sumatra earthquake and tsunami event in the largest, longest multiphysics earthquake simulation to date. The team was awarded Best Paper at the world’s premier supercomputing conference, SC17.