communication.data Explained

This data file still exists because we haven't removed the CommunicationData namelist from AstroBEAR's source code yet, so not including communication.data will cause your simulation to crash. Nevertheless, this file no longer serves a purpose.

communication.data contains one namelist, CommunicationData. This namelist contains a single 15-element integer array, packet_buffers. This array used to hold the packet sizes for different communication categories, but the move to dynamic packet sizing did away with the need for file-defined packet sizes.