Supercomputers that enabled world’s largest simulations of turbulence (IMAGE)
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The SuperMUC-NG supercomputer at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Munich is one of Europe’s most powerful computing systems. It supports cutting-edge research in fields like astrophysics, life sciences, and artificial intelligence by enabling massive-scale simulations and data processing.
The supercomputers were used to develop the world's largest simulations of magnetized turbulence. The team’s work relied on the equivalent of 140,000 computers running in parallel, enabled by the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre’s supercomputer, totaling more than 80 million computing hours from start to finish. There is still no complete mathematical framework for predicting how energy moves from large to small scales — across oceans, in the atmosphere, or through the plasma and dust between the stars. In space, the problem is even more complex than on Earth due to magnetization, requiring these computational resources to model.
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Image credit: F. Löchner / LRZ
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