Last week I finally obtained a copy of the full-physics version of GADGET-2.  According to Desika Narayanan, it's a version which has been verified to work with Sunrise. Once I'm no longer busy with other things, I'll start working with it.

I have almost finished writing a cycle 19 HST theory proposal. The deadline is in a few days.

I'm in the early stages of working on a paper describing my qualifier project.  After reading through the literature from the last 34 years and thinking about the deficiencies in my project as it stands, I've decided to further modify the code to include several more features.  Yesterday I wrote an energy tracking function and I've begun writing a density profile plotter.  I've also improved the performance of the code somewhat.  Functions for plotting the line-of-sight velocity distribution and for computing the skewness of the distribution will be added shortly.  I may also try writing a hierarchical time-stepping scheme to improve performance further.

I've decided to maintain the qualifier code using a revision control system.  I've used Subversion for projects in the past, but Mercurial and Git seemed to be much better options.  I ultimately decided to use Git.

Git Tutorial,  Git Manual

Git should also come in handy when collaborating on LaTeX documents.

Tags: GADGET

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