Computational Cosmology Center

PUBLICATIONS

COLLABORATORS

HPC TOOLS

In recent years astrophysics has undergone a renaissance, transforming from a data-starved to a data-driven science. A new generation of experiments — including the Planck and JDEM satellite missions — will gather data sets so massive that their analysis requires leading-edge high performance computing resources. Continuing their decade-long collaboration in this field, the Physics and Computational Research Divisions at LBNL have formed the Computational Cosmology Center.

C³ is a focused collaboration of astrophysicists and computational scientists whose goals are to develop the tools, techniques and technologies to meet the analysis challenges posed by present and future cosmological data sets.

RESEARCH

	Cosmic Microwave Background
	Using the faintest echoes of the Big Bang to understand the Universe.
	Supernova/Astrophysics
	The study of stellar explosions is critical for understanding dark energy and the birth of galaxies.
	Topological Defects
	Studying the knots of energy which may have been formed in the first moments after the Big Bang.
	Deep Sky
	A project to present a comprehensive and interactive map of astrophysical objects based on about one million images of the sky.
	SciDAC Computational Astrophysics Consortium
	A collaboration among DOE labs and universities on studying supernovae, gamma ray bursts and nucleosynthesis.
	Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation
	Developing scientific application based codes that test a supercomputer's overall capabilities under realistic workloads.