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We aim to investigate the formation of globular clusters(GCs)in hierarchical structure of matters of Lambda cold dark matter(CDM)cosmology on detailed numerical simulations.To accomplish our research goal,we have added the following baryonic physics on the existing cosmological hydrodynamic code,GADGET-2:1)radiative heating and cooling,2)reionization of the Universe and UV shielding,3)star formation,4)energy and metallicity feedback by supernova.In addition,we included cluster formation to distinguish clustered star formation inside the very high density gas clumps from the field star formation.For this,the high density gas clumps of nH >104cm-3 are converted into cluster particles with cluster formation efficiency of ε=0.3.There parameters are similar to the observed giant molecular clouds,the formation site for the young massive clusters.Our simulations cover a cubic box of a side length 4 Mpc/h with 130 million particles.The mass of each particles is 3.4×104 M⊙,thus the GCs can be resolved with more than hundreds particles.We discuss various properties of the GCs such as mass function,specific frequency,baryon-to-dark matter ratio,metallicity,spatial distribution,and orbit eccentricity distribution as functions of redshift.We also discuss how the formation and evolution of the GCs are affected by the epoch of the reionization,and UV shielding.