diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9a56843112c8214fc4dbce8efdf3fc23aa7e5919..8288ecfeb5833501a959daa0553dfe28999b7676 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ examples/*.xmf
 examples/used_parameters.yml
 examples/energy.txt
 examples/*/*.xmf
+examples/*/*.hdf5
 examples/*/used_parameters.yml
 examples/*/energy.txt
 
diff --git a/examples/BigCosmoVolume/makeIC.py b/examples/BigCosmoVolume/makeIC.py
index 3020feaf753f817f039d2fd09c4fa4f7fb69b896..411ac54b41fadc4209b314b5b9976e5ac95d8000 100644
--- a/examples/BigCosmoVolume/makeIC.py
+++ b/examples/BigCosmoVolume/makeIC.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ if downsample > 1. or downsample <= 0.:
 # Download the tile
 if (not os.path.isfile("tile.hdf5")):
     print "Downloading initial tile..."
-    urllib.urlretrieve ("http://icc.dur.ac.uk/~jlvc76/Files/SWIFT/tile.hdf5", "tile.hdf5")
+    urllib.urlretrieve ("http://virgodb.cosma.dur.ac.uk/swift-webstorage/ICs/tile.hdf5", "tile.hdf5")
     print "Done."
 else:
     print "Tile already exists. No need to download..."
diff --git a/examples/CosmoVolume/getIC.sh b/examples/CosmoVolume/getIC.sh
index 5b951fc247006f0378bcee2b74a9619b7b1acc7d..fdaddd1d1f09a941244f520fb368aaed8f2316b4 100755
--- a/examples/CosmoVolume/getIC.sh
+++ b/examples/CosmoVolume/getIC.sh
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-wget http://icc.dur.ac.uk/~jlvc76/Files/SWIFT/cosmoVolume.hdf5
+wget http://virgodb.cosma.dur.ac.uk/swift-webstorage/ICs/cosmoVolume.hdf5
diff --git a/examples/EAGLE_12/README b/examples/EAGLE_12/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7bdbfd929dac87950c6ac4b672591a75877e3b7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/EAGLE_12/README
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+ICs extracted from the EAGLE suite of simulations. 
+
+WARNING: The ICs are 460MB in size. They contain ~6.5M DM particles,
+~6M gas particles and ~250k star particles.
+
+The particle distribution here is the snapshot 27 (z=0.1) of the 12Mpc
+Ref-model. h- and a- factors from the original Gadget code have been
+corrected for. Variables not used in a pure hydro & gravity code have
+been removed.  Everything is ready to be run without cosmological
+integration.
+
+The particle load of the main EAGLE simulation can be reproduced by
+running these ICs on 8 cores.
diff --git a/examples/EAGLE_12/eagle_12.yml b/examples/EAGLE_12/eagle_12.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..778d04fdd02004fd10ac468321568069e39dd217
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/EAGLE_12/eagle_12.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# Define the system of units to use internally. 
+InternalUnitSystem:
+  UnitMass_in_cgs:     1   # Grams
+  UnitLength_in_cgs:   1   # Centimeters
+  UnitVelocity_in_cgs: 1   # Centimeters per second
+  UnitCurrent_in_cgs:  1   # Amperes
+  UnitTemp_in_cgs:     1   # Kelvin
+
+# Parameters for the task scheduling
+Scheduler:
+  cell_sub_size:    6000     # Value used for the original scaling tests
+  cell_split_size:  300      # Value used for the original scaling tests
+
+# Parameters governing the time integration
+TimeIntegration:
+  time_begin: 0.    # The starting time of the simulation (in internal units).
+  time_end:   1.    # The end time of the simulation (in internal units).
+  dt_min:     1e-7  # The minimal time-step size of the simulation (in internal units).
+  dt_max:     1e-2  # The maximal time-step size of the simulation (in internal units).
+
+# Parameters governing the snapshots
+Snapshots:
+  basename:            eagle # Common part of the name of output files
+  time_first:          0.    # Time of the first output (in internal units)
+  delta_time:          0.05  # Time difference between consecutive outputs (in internal units)
+  UnitMass_in_cgs:     1   # Grams
+  UnitLength_in_cgs:   1   # Centimeters
+  UnitVelocity_in_cgs: 1   # Centimeters per second
+  UnitCurrent_in_cgs:  1   # Amperes
+  UnitTemp_in_cgs:     1   # Kelvin
+
+# Parameters governing the conserved quantities statistics
+Statistics:
+  delta_time:          1e-2 # Time between statistics output
+
+# Parameters for the hydrodynamics scheme
+SPH:
+  resolution_eta:        1.2348   # Target smoothing length in units of the mean inter-particle separation (1.2348 == 48Ngbs with the cubic spline kernel).
+  delta_neighbours:      0.1      # The tolerance for the targetted number of neighbours.
+  max_smoothing_length:  0.1    # Maximal smoothing length allowed (in internal units).
+  CFL_condition:         0.1      # Courant-Friedrich-Levy condition for time integration.
+
+# Parameters related to the initial conditions
+InitialConditions:
+  file_name:  ./EAGLE_ICs_12.hdf5     # The file to read
+
diff --git a/examples/EAGLE_12/getIC.sh b/examples/EAGLE_12/getIC.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1983a1c19fbfd67d2a13d7a59847423d217f0e4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/EAGLE_12/getIC.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+wget http://virgodb.cosma.dur.ac.uk/swift-webstorage/ICs/EAGLE_ICs_12.hdf5
diff --git a/examples/EAGLE_12/run.sh b/examples/EAGLE_12/run.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..58c92adc0a1afadf0d15f81613d749f6e736f211
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/EAGLE_12/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+ # Generate the initial conditions if they are not present.
+if [ ! -e EAGLE_ICs_12.hdf5 ]
+then
+    echo "Fetching initial conditions for the EAGLE 12Mpc example..."
+    ./getIC.sh
+fi
+
+../swift -s -t 16 eagle_12.yml
+
diff --git a/examples/EAGLE_25/README b/examples/EAGLE_25/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0af58d16d9ca101fb2f641b1493fdc8268184ff4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/EAGLE_25/README
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+ICs extracted from the EAGLE suite of simulations. 
+
+WARNING: The ICs are 3.6GB in size. They contain ~52M DM particles,
+~50M gas particles and ~2M star particles.
+
+The particle distribution here is the snapshot 27 (z=0.1) of the 25Mpc
+Ref-model. h- and a- factors from the original Gadget code have been
+corrected for. Variables not used in a pure hydro & gravity code have
+been removed. 
+Everything is ready to be run without cosmological integration. 
+
+The particle load of the main EAGLE simulation can be reproduced by
+running these ICs on 64 cores.
diff --git a/examples/EAGLE_25/eagle_25.yml b/examples/EAGLE_25/eagle_25.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..731d87ea360ced596c4190880c62fdfb1cd605f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/EAGLE_25/eagle_25.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# Define the system of units to use internally. 
+InternalUnitSystem:
+  UnitMass_in_cgs:     1   # Grams
+  UnitLength_in_cgs:   1   # Centimeters
+  UnitVelocity_in_cgs: 1   # Centimeters per second
+  UnitCurrent_in_cgs:  1   # Amperes
+  UnitTemp_in_cgs:     1   # Kelvin
+
+# Parameters for the task scheduling
+Scheduler:
+  cell_sub_size:    6000     # Value used for the original scaling tests
+  cell_split_size:  300      # Value used for the original scaling tests
+
+# Parameters governing the time integration
+TimeIntegration:
+  time_begin: 0.    # The starting time of the simulation (in internal units).
+  time_end:   1.    # The end time of the simulation (in internal units).
+  dt_min:     1e-7  # The minimal time-step size of the simulation (in internal units).
+  dt_max:     1e-2  # The maximal time-step size of the simulation (in internal units).
+
+# Parameters governing the snapshots
+Snapshots:
+  basename:            eagle # Common part of the name of output files
+  time_first:          0.    # Time of the first output (in internal units)
+  delta_time:          0.05  # Time difference between consecutive outputs (in internal units)
+  UnitMass_in_cgs:     1   # Grams
+  UnitLength_in_cgs:   1   # Centimeters
+  UnitVelocity_in_cgs: 1   # Centimeters per second
+  UnitCurrent_in_cgs:  1   # Amperes
+  UnitTemp_in_cgs:     1   # Kelvin
+
+# Parameters governing the conserved quantities statistics
+Statistics:
+  delta_time:          1e-2 # Time between statistics output
+
+# Parameters for the hydrodynamics scheme
+SPH:
+  resolution_eta:        1.2348   # Target smoothing length in units of the mean inter-particle separation (1.2348 == 48Ngbs with the cubic spline kernel).
+  delta_neighbours:      0.1      # The tolerance for the targetted number of neighbours.
+  max_smoothing_length:  0.1    # Maximal smoothing length allowed (in internal units).
+  CFL_condition:         0.1      # Courant-Friedrich-Levy condition for time integration.
+
+# Parameters related to the initial conditions
+InitialConditions:
+  file_name:  ./EAGLE_ICs_25.hdf5     # The file to read
+
diff --git a/examples/EAGLE_25/getIC.sh b/examples/EAGLE_25/getIC.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4577db3a351f5b9ce16962897c664cd12108b01c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/EAGLE_25/getIC.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+wget http://virgodb.cosma.dur.ac.uk/swift-webstorage/ICs/EAGLE_ICs_25.hdf5
diff --git a/examples/EAGLE_25/run.sh b/examples/EAGLE_25/run.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f232cf98f772ab9900bd22b635090e3c103749b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/EAGLE_25/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+ # Generate the initial conditions if they are not present.
+if [ ! -e EAGLE_ICs_25.hdf5 ]
+then
+    echo "Fetching initial conditions for the EAGLE 25Mpc example..."
+    ./getIC.sh
+fi
+
+../swift -s -t 16 eagle_25.yml
+
diff --git a/examples/EAGLE_50/README b/examples/EAGLE_50/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..50a8ec6b8eddbbcf34a9b36b76ab34ad7d1f5401
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/EAGLE_50/README
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+ICs extracted from the EAGLE suite of simulations. 
+
+WARNING: The ICs are 28GB in size. They contain ~425M DM particles,
+~405M gas particles and ~20M star particles
+
+The particle distribution here is the snapshot 27 (z=0.1) of the 50Mpc
+Ref-model. h- and a- factors from the original Gadget code have been
+corrected for. Variables not used in a pure hydro & gravity code have
+been removed. 
+Everything is ready to be run without cosmological integration. 
+
+The particle load of the main EAGLE simulation can be reproduced by
+running these ICs on 512 cores.
diff --git a/examples/EAGLE_50/eagle_50.yml b/examples/EAGLE_50/eagle_50.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1b1f4e4dfa0559f4fcf18d99c0fc649a3b8f5307
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/EAGLE_50/eagle_50.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# Define the system of units to use internally. 
+InternalUnitSystem:
+  UnitMass_in_cgs:     1   # Grams
+  UnitLength_in_cgs:   1   # Centimeters
+  UnitVelocity_in_cgs: 1   # Centimeters per second
+  UnitCurrent_in_cgs:  1   # Amperes
+  UnitTemp_in_cgs:     1   # Kelvin
+
+# Parameters for the task scheduling
+Scheduler:
+  cell_sub_size:    6000     # Value used for the original scaling tests
+  cell_split_size:  300      # Value used for the original scaling tests
+
+# Parameters governing the time integration
+TimeIntegration:
+  time_begin: 0.    # The starting time of the simulation (in internal units).
+  time_end:   1.    # The end time of the simulation (in internal units).
+  dt_min:     1e-7  # The minimal time-step size of the simulation (in internal units).
+  dt_max:     1e-2  # The maximal time-step size of the simulation (in internal units).
+
+# Parameters governing the snapshots
+Snapshots:
+  basename:            eagle # Common part of the name of output files
+  time_first:          0.    # Time of the first output (in internal units)
+  delta_time:          0.05  # Time difference between consecutive outputs (in internal units)
+  UnitMass_in_cgs:     1   # Grams
+  UnitLength_in_cgs:   1   # Centimeters
+  UnitVelocity_in_cgs: 1   # Centimeters per second
+  UnitCurrent_in_cgs:  1   # Amperes
+  UnitTemp_in_cgs:     1   # Kelvin
+
+# Parameters governing the conserved quantities statistics
+Statistics:
+  delta_time:          1e-2 # Time between statistics output
+
+# Parameters for the hydrodynamics scheme
+SPH:
+  resolution_eta:        1.2348   # Target smoothing length in units of the mean inter-particle separation (1.2348 == 48Ngbs with the cubic spline kernel).
+  delta_neighbours:      0.1      # The tolerance for the targetted number of neighbours.
+  max_smoothing_length:  0.1    # Maximal smoothing length allowed (in internal units).
+  CFL_condition:         0.1      # Courant-Friedrich-Levy condition for time integration.
+
+# Parameters related to the initial conditions
+InitialConditions:
+  file_name:  ./EAGLE_ICs_50.hdf5     # The file to read
+
diff --git a/examples/EAGLE_50/getIC.sh b/examples/EAGLE_50/getIC.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f898a02fac4f66f1d186d61a8d48d7b1f81a2af4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/EAGLE_50/getIC.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+wget http://virgodb.cosma.dur.ac.uk/swift-webstorage/ICs/EAGLE_ICs_50.hdf5
diff --git a/examples/EAGLE_50/run.sh b/examples/EAGLE_50/run.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..87d522be6bd95fa503d437af861a68ce8bf85b4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/EAGLE_50/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+ # Generate the initial conditions if they are not present.
+if [ ! -e EAGLE_ICs_50.hdf5 ]
+then
+    echo "Fetching initial conditions for the EAGLE 50Mpc example..."
+    ./getIC.sh
+fi
+
+../swift -s -t 16 eagle_50.yml
+
diff --git a/examples/mkplots.m b/examples/mkplots.m
deleted file mode 100644
index 341eaf395a65db2975b161a8a98e1916b9252741..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/examples/mkplots.m
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,102 +0,0 @@
-
-%% Scaling and efficiency plots for the first test
-datadir = 'Opteron8380';
-test = importdata( [ datadir '/snap_C90.totals' ]);
-ncores = size( test , 1 );
-col = 11;
-
-clf
-subplot('position',[ 0.05 , 0.1 , 0.4 , 0.8 ]);
-plot( 1:ncores , test(1,col) ./ test(:,col) , '-k' , 'LineWidth' , 2 ); hold on;
-xlabel('nr. cores');
-plot( [1,ncores] , [1,ncores] , ':k' , 'LineWidth' , 1.4 );
-hold off;
-title('Speedup GadgetSMP');
-axis([ 1 , ncores , 0 , ncores ]);
-
-subplot('position',[ 0.52 0.1 , 0.4 , 0.8 ]);
-plot( 1:ncores , test(1,col) ./ test(:,col) ./ (1:ncores)' , '-k' , 'LineWidth' , 2 ); hold on;
-plot( [1,ncores] , [1,1] , ':k' , 'LineWidth' , 1.4 );
-% text(4*ncores/5,1,sprintf('%.2f',min(test(:,10))),'BackgroundColor',[1,1,1],'FontSize',12);
-xlabel('nr. cores');
-hold off;
-title('Efficiency GadgetSMP');
-axis([ 1 , ncores , 0 , 1.2 ]);
-
-% Print this plot
-set( gcf , 'PaperSize' , 2.3*[ 8.5 4.5 ] );
-set( gcf , 'PaperPosition' , 2.3*[ 0.25 0.25 8 4 ] );
-print -depsc2 test.eps
-!epstopdf test.eps 
-
-
-%% Scaling and efficiency plots for the second test
-test2 = importdata( 'test2.totals');
-ncores = size( test2 , 1 );
-
-clf
-subplot('position',[ 0.05 , 0.1 , 0.4 , 0.8 ]);
-plot( 1:ncores , test2(1,10) ./ test2(:,10) , '-k' , 'LineWidth' , 2 ); hold on;
-xlabel('nr. cores');
-plot( [1,ncores] , [1,ncores] , ':k' , 'LineWidth' , 1.4 );
-hold off;
-title('Speedup');
-axis([ 1 , ncores , 0 , ncores ]);
-
-subplot('position',[ 0.52 0.1 , 0.4 , 0.8 ]);
-plot( 1:ncores , test2(1,10) ./ test2(:,10) ./ (1:ncores)' , '-k' , 'LineWidth' , 2 ); hold on;
-plot( [1,ncores] , [1,1] , ':k' , 'LineWidth' , 1.4 );
-text(4*ncores/5,1,sprintf('%.2f',min(test2(:,10))),'BackgroundColor',[1,1,1],'FontSize',12);
-xlabel('nr. cores');
-hold off;
-title('Efficiency');
-axis([ 1 , ncores , 0 , 1.2 ]);
-
-% Print this plot
-set( gcf , 'PaperSize' , 2.3*[ 8.5 4.5 ] );
-set( gcf , 'PaperPosition' , 2.3*[ 0.25 0.25 8 4 ] );
-print -depsc2 test2.eps
-!epstopdf test2.eps 
-
-
-%% Components of the first test
-test = importdata( 'test_nosort.totals');
-ncores = size( test , 1 );
-cols = [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 5 ];
-
-clf
-subplot('position',[ 0.1 , 0.1 , 0.8 , 0.8 ]);
-plot( 1:ncores , test(:,cols) , 'LineWidth' , 2 ); hold on;
-legend( 'sort' , 'self' , 'pair' , 'get task' , 'Location' , 'NorthWest' );
-xlabel('nr. cores');
-hold off;
-title('ms per task type');
-axis([ 1 , ncores , 0 , max(max(test(:,cols)))*1.1 ]);
-
-% Print this plot
-set( gcf , 'PaperSize' , 2.3*[ 4.5 4 ] );
-set( gcf , 'PaperPosition' , 2.3*[ 0.25 0.25 4 4 ] );
-print -depsc2 parts.eps
-!epstopdf parts.eps 
-
-
-%% Components of the second test
-test2 = importdata( 'test2.totals');
-ncores = size( test2 , 1 );
-cols = [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 5 ];
-
-clf
-subplot('position',[ 0.1 , 0.1 , 0.8 , 0.8 ]);
-plot( 1:ncores , test2(:,cols) , 'LineWidth' , 2 ); hold on;
-legend( 'sort' , 'self' , 'pair' , 'get task' , 'Location' , 'NorthWest' );
-xlabel('nr. cores');
-hold off;
-title('ms per task type');
-axis([ 1 , ncores , 0 , max(max(test2(:,cols)))*1.1 ]);
-
-% Print this plot
-set( gcf , 'PaperSize' , 2.3*[ 4.5 4 ] );
-set( gcf , 'PaperPosition' , 2.3*[ 0.25 0.25 4 4 ] );
-print -depsc2 parts2.eps
-!epstopdf parts2.eps 
-
diff --git a/src/parallel_io.c b/src/parallel_io.c
index 66b02d2bff2bc0d6f2dd69d994a93576e8b96583..1411b85b9b4144830aa6a9f37a487b3148a2db21 100644
--- a/src/parallel_io.c
+++ b/src/parallel_io.c
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ void read_ic_parallel(char* fileName, double dim[3], struct part** parts,
         break;
 
       default:
-        error("Particle Type %d not yet supported. Aborting", ptype);
+        message("Particle Type %d not yet supported. Particles ignored", ptype);
     }
 
     /* Close particle group */
diff --git a/src/serial_io.c b/src/serial_io.c
index 03d3c38850e0a7800c83d7dd0942025632bf1d0b..fac3c1b006375eb43a4e799f96a4979f26238668 100644
--- a/src/serial_io.c
+++ b/src/serial_io.c
@@ -564,7 +564,8 @@ void read_ic_serial(char* fileName, double dim[3], struct part** parts,
             break;
 
           default:
-            error("Particle Type %d not yet supported. Aborting", ptype);
+            message("Particle Type %d not yet supported. Particles ignored",
+                    ptype);
         }
 
         /* Close particle group */
diff --git a/src/single_io.c b/src/single_io.c
index 3893f1c86784e07e5cd78afc32a49339e60840ba..329ec7253247a6bec992e9cb740d322fa3048a01 100644
--- a/src/single_io.c
+++ b/src/single_io.c
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ void read_ic_single(char* fileName, double dim[3], struct part** parts,
         break;
 
       default:
-        error("Particle Type %d not yet supported. Aborting", ptype);
+        message("Particle Type %d not yet supported. Particles ignored", ptype);
     }
 
     /* Close particle group */