Slide Image: (Cover image for the Access cover Vol. 14, No. 3 Fall 2001) Supersonic turbulence in the outer envelope of a red giant star. Using NCSA’s 64-processor prototype Itanium cluster, this 1-billion-cell turbulent flow simulation was created by Paul Woodward and his colleagues at the University of Minnesota’s Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering.

Credit: Univ. of Minn. Lab of Computational Science and Engineering; Access magazine/NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications); Distorted with a liquify filter by Sara Raimo, NSF