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The Gravitational Billion Body Problem

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Title The Gravitational Billion Body Problem
Period 09 / 2008 - 09 / 2009
Status Completed
Research number OND1334889
Data Supplier NWO

Abstract

We plan on running a cold dark-matter N-body simulation of the local group of galaxies at unprecedented resolution. This calculation is interesting for two main reasons: 1) it will address (and hopefully solve) a long standing problem in cosmology and 2) the calculation will computational be extremely challenging, since it requires the coupling between two of the largest computers on the planet via one of the fastest internet connections in order to perform one very large calculation.

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