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UCC physics involved in large supercomputing award to run galaxy simulations

8 Jul 2025

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Dr. Michael Tremmel, School of Physics, UCC's collaboration with The N-Body Shop has been awarded 162.3 Million cpu-hours on the Frontera supercomputer in the USA to run a large-scale, high resolution galaxy simulation suite.

The N-Body shop is an international collaboration of astrophysicists using and developing numerical solutions to complex, multiscale problems.

Find out more here about Frontera - the fastest Academic Supercomputer in the US.

Note: this was a Leadership Resource Allocation, PI: Tom Quinn (University of Washington)

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