Horizon Run 5: the largest cosmological hydrodynamic simulation

  • Kim, Juhan (Center for Advanced Computation, Korea Institute for Advanced Study) ;
  • Shin, Jihye (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Snaith, Owain (School of Physics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study) ;
  • Lee, Jaehyun (School of Physics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study) ;
  • Kim, Yonghwi (School of Physics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study) ;
  • Kwon, Oh-Kyung (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) ;
  • Park, Chan (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) ;
  • Park, Changbom (School of Physics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
  • Published : 2019.04.10

Abstract

Horizon Run 5 is the most massive cosmological hydrodynamic simulation ever performed until now. Owing to the large spatial volume ($717{\times}80{\times}80[cMpc/h]^3$) and the high resolution down to 1 kpc, we may study the cosmological effects on star and galaxy formations over a wide range of mass scales from the dwarf to the cluster. We have modified the public available Ramses code to harness the power of the OpenMP parallelism, which is necessary for running simulations in such a huge KISTI supercomputer called Nurion. We have reached z=2.3 from z=200 for a given simulation period of 50 days using 2500 computing nodes of Nurion. During the simulation run, we have saved snapshot data at 97 redshifts and two light cone space data, which will be used later for the study of various research fields in galaxy formation and cosmology. We will close this talk by listing possible research topics that will play a crucial role in helping us take lead in those areas.

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