data link Story: A Very Good Year

A Very Good Year

These grants will allow researchers in computational astrophysics to build on the past successes of the code. In June 1999, the AEI/NCSA/WashU collaboration used Cactus to run some of the largest and most advanced simulations of black holes, gravitational waves, and neutron stars done to date. Using a 256-processor SGI Origin 2000 supercomputer, they burned about 140,000 CPU hours in three weeks, generating 1 TB of data and dozens of detailed visualizations of these processes. Some of these visualizations and details of the science are online.

Smarr noted at the fall conference that researchers and other computing experts are experiencing a turning point in computational science. And Cactus is one freely available resource that is contributing to this historic change in computational research.

More information about Cactus is available online, including transcripts and video from the workshop.

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