omega tau 31 - The Millenium 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)

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