Dark Sky Simulations

Cosmological simulations are a cornerstone of our understanding of the Universe during its 13.7 billion year progression from small fluctuations that we see in the cosmic microwave background to today, where we are surrounded by galaxies and clusters of galaxies interconnected by a vast cosmic web.

The Dark Sky Simulations are an ongoing series of cosmological N-body simulations designed to provide a quantitative and accessible model of the evolution of the large-scale Universe. We accomplish this through a coupling of advanced numerical methods, intuitive data analysis techniques, and a substantial public data release, described in our Early Data Release paper that you can find on the arXiv.

Browse our project repositories at http://bitbucket.org/darkskysimulations and feel free to join our discussion forum or follow us on Google+.