Science overview

The COSMOS consortium primarily studies:

  1. The origin of the Universe in a Hot Big Bang
  2. The cosmic microwave background radiation
  3. The formation of large-scale structure
Find out more about our science goals here.

Hardware

Hardware configuration

The COSMOS supercomputer is an SGI Altix 4700 with 152 Itanium2 cores, 456 GB of global shared memory and 25 TB of storage. The consortium also operates an SGI visualization system and remote servers.

Team

Team members

Supporting the COSMOS consortium is a small team of dedicated HPC experts, including Andrey Kaliazin (system administrator).

Publications

Scientific publications

Since the COSMOS launch in 1997, over 400 papers have been published by consortium members based on research using the central supercomputer or linked servers. Here is the most recent list from the past three years.

COSMOS Sponsors:

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