These documentation pages provide background information on the structure of the database and its tables, and it guides you through the main features of this web application. It contains following chapters:
Some pages are not yet updated; please be patient.
For more information about the simulations and the projects, please see the Simulations part of this webpage.
The CosmoSim database is a service by the Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP).
It is developed and maintained by the E-Science group.
CosmoSim is a contribution to the German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (GAVO).
CosmoSim contains data from different cosmological simulation projects:
Please visit the linked sites for more information about the projects and about the appreciated form of acknowledgment/credits, if the data is used in a scientific publication or proposal.The MultiDark and Bolshoi simulations were run on the NASA's Pleiades supercomputer at the NASA Ames Research Center.
The MultiDark-Planck (MDPL) and the BigMD simulation suite have been performed in the Supermuc supercomputer at LRZ using time granted by PRACE.
The CLUES simulations were performed using the supercomputing facilities at LRZ Munich, BSC Barcelona and JSC Jülich.