Two views of dark matter distribution, from a simulation by Edmund Bertschinger

Grand Challenge Cosmology Consortium

The Grand Challenge Computational Cosmology consortium is a multi-institution project funded by the National Science Foundation. The goals of the project include bringing Grand Challenge-scale computing power to bear on fundamental questions in cosmology, and making the resulting knowledge and computational methods as widely available as possible.

Specific software tools relevant to the project were developed at the PSC. These tools include:

VFleet
a distributed computer graphics volume renderer, designed to render large multivariate datasets.
BISECT ( )
a subroutine to produce load-balanced distributions of particle systems on MPP systems.
StarSplatter
a tool for creating images and animations from astrophysical particle simulation data.

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