The parallel processing power of NSCP enables Dr. Paul Bode, Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Pennsylvania, to perform numerical simulations in the study of cosmological structure. Black is lowest density, followed by blue, green yellow, red, and finally white as highest density.
Later images show later times, when more structure forms due to gravitational attraction.
As the movie plays, the universe ages from 50 million to 12.5 billion years. During this time, our simulation volume actually expands by a factor of 40, but this expansion isn't shown. Here is the first frame of that universe, and here is the last frame. You can run a parallel cosmological hydrodynamics code on an NSCP computer.