Petascale Cosmology with Gadget: Modeling the Formation of the First Quasars with Blue Waters

Tiziana Di Matteo, Carnegie Mellon University

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The research team will conduct hydrodynamic simulations of bright quasar formations which evolved from the first supermassive black holes in the universe. The simulations will use full mass and spatial resolution throughout the entire massive cosmological volume. The initial simulation will evolve to redshift z = 4, while the second subsequent smaller simulation will evolve to redshift z = 0. These are expected to be the highest resolution SPH (smoothed-particle hydrodynamics) simulations performed at low redshift. These simulations represent qualitative advances both in understanding of fundamental cosmology questions and efficient algorithmic approaches at the frontiers of large scale computation.

Di Matteo vignette, initially prepared for NSF