Thursday, December 12, 2013

ScienceDaily: Galaxies News

ScienceDaily: Galaxies News


Announcing project AGORA: Ambitious comparison of computer simulations of galaxy evolution

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 06:38 AM PST

A long-standing difficulty with supercomputer simulations of the evolution of galaxies has been getting consistent results among different codes (programs) and with actual observations, so simulated galaxies look like real galaxies. But reproducibility is one of the most elementary principles in scientific methods. An ambitious new multiyear project AGORA aims to understand and resolve such inconsistencies.

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