Principal Investigator:
Jenny Sorce
, Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
HPC Platform used:
SuperMUC-NG PH1 at LRZ
Local Project ID:
pn57ne, pr74je
Two billion light-years wide, the local Universe, is a formidable observational playground for astrophysicists. This tiny bit of the Universe hosts billions of billions of stars, planets gathered in galaxies, including our very own: the Milky Way. We now have a huge amount of data at different wavelengths of tons of galaxies and galaxy clusters in our neighborhood to understand better the Universe, its formation and evolution as well as that of its constituents. However, analyzing and interpreting properly all the observations of our Cosmic Home requires sophisticated cosmological simulations that need to be run on powerful supercomputers.