Box 500 Mpc/h,LCDM (Simulation
done by
GADGET-2 code on MareNostrum)
with 1024^3 DM and 1024^3 GAS particles.
Details of the simulation:
Simulation volume: cubic box
of 500 h-1 Mpc on a side. Cosmological initial conditions
corresponding to the ΛCDM concordance model:
Ωm=0.3 ΩΛ=0.7
Ωb=0.15
h=0.7 σ8=0.9
CODE USED : GADGET-2 (TREEPM + SPH)
Number of dark matter particles: 10243
=1,073,741,824 Mass of dark particles: 8.24x109
Msun Number of gas
particles: 10243
= 1,073,741,824 Mass of gas particles: 1.45x109
Msun TOTAL NUMBER OF PARTICLES USED: 2,147,483,648
Gravitational force
resolution: 7 h-1 kpc
SPH smoothing length: distance to the 40th neighbour of
each gas particles.
Number of processors: 512 CPU time: 447 hours * 512 processors= 228864 hours ∼26
years Total outputs stored: 134
snapshots evenly spaced in cosmological time ( 100 Myear interval).
Amount of data per snapshot: 76
gigabytes(distributed in 64 files)
Number of halos found in
simulation at z=0: 975,517
halos with masses ranging from 5x1011 Msun to 2.3x1015 Msun