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episode 31: The Millennium Simulation
This episode is a conversation with Volker Springel about the Millenium Simulation, which at the time was the largest simulation of the growth of cosmic structure, including a detailed model for the formation of galaxies and supermassive black holes. In the episode we talk about the physical/cosmological background, the simulation process and approach as well as some details about the hard- and software.
- Volker Springel’s Website
- The Millenium Simulation (Wikipedia)
- VIRGO consortium
- Cosmic Background Radiation (Wikipedia)
- COBE Satellite (Wikipedia)
- WMAP Satellite (Wikipedia)
- Dark Matter (Wikipedia)
- Dark Energy (Wikipedia)
- Numerical Simulations (Wikipedia)
- Fortran and C programming languages (Wikipedia)