Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory
At the Brookhaven Lab-hosted Xeon Phi hackathon, (left to right) mentor Bei Wang, a high-performance-computing software engineer at Princeton University; mentor Hideki Saito, a principal engineer at Intel; and participant Han Aung, a graduate student in the Department of Physics at Yale University, optimize an application code that simulates the formation of structures in the universe. Aung and his fellow team members sought to increase the numerical resolution of their simulations so they can more realistically model the astrophysical processes in galaxy clusters.