World’s Largest GPU In-situ Visualization System Models Formation of Milky Way

Simulating the formation of an entire galaxy is no easy task. It takes precise calculations and massive amounts of computational horsepower. It’s even harder to run a simulation of this size while simultaneously rendering the results interactively on the same system. Yet researchers at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) have done just that. For the first time, they used the ultra-powerful Tesla GPU-accelerated Piz Daint supercomputer to run a massive in-situ visualization – simultaneously computing and generating a visualization of the formation of the Milky Way galaxy (for more on in-situ visualization see "Interactive Supercomputing with In-Situ Visualization on Tesla CPUs").