Specialists from the Virgo Consortium, which brings together astronomers from different countries, have set themselves the ambitious task of answering the question of how life in the Universe came about and what preceded the Big Bang. To do this, the scientists are using computer simulations of the entire Universe, in particular the FLAMINGO simulation, which is running on the DiRAC supercomputer in the UK.
It is noted that these simulations are very intense and they are designed to calculate the evolution process of all known components in the universe, including ordinary matter, dark matter, dark energy and many others. The largest of these simulations has a fabulous 300 billion particles with the mass of a small galaxy and the volume of space with edges 10 billion years apart. To make this simulation possible, scientists have developed a new code called SWIFT that ensures efficient distribution of computational activity across more than 30,000 CPUs.
