Argonne’s Frontier Simulation Breaks Cosmic Barriers

In a stellar achievement, Argonne National Laboratory leveraged the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge to run the largest astrophysical simulation ever, smashing previous records by nearly 300x speed using their upgraded HACC code. Powered by 9,000 Frontier nodes and AMD Instinct™ GPUs, this 2024 milestone from the $1.8B Exascale Computing Project unveils unprecedented insights into dark and atomic matter interactions over billions of years. It’s a universe-sized leap for science, proving that even the cosmos can have a computational speed boost!