The LSU Center for Computation & Technology announces the second release of the Einstein Toolkit (code name "Chandrasekhar"). The Einstein Toolkit is an open, community developed software infrastructure supporting relativistic astrophysics research and education. This release is mainly a maintenance release incorporating fixes accumulated since the previous release in June 2010, as well as additional test suites.
The Einstein Toolkit is a collection of software components and tools for simulating and analyzing general relativistic astrophysical systems that build on numerous software efforts in the numerical relativity community including CactusEinstein, the Carpet AMR infrastructure, and on the public version of the Whisky hydrodynamics code (now modified and called GRHydro).
The Cactus Framework is used as the underlying computational infrastructure for the Einstein Toolkit, providing large-scale parallelization, general computational components, and a model for collaborative, portable code development. The toolkit includes modules to build complete codes for simulating black hole spacetimes as well as systems governed by relativistic hydrodynamics. Current development is targeted at providing additional infrastructure for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics.
The Einstein Toolkit is primarily supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The toolkit consortium comprises several international universities, laboratories and research centers. The Einstein Toolkit Consortium " Chandrasekhar" release team members are: Gabrielle Allen, LSU/NSF; Peter Diener, Frank Löffler, Eric Seidel and Michael Thomas, LSU; Erik Schnetter, LSU/Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics; Eloisa Bentivegna and Ian Hinder, Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics; Tanja Bode, and Roland Haas, Georgia Tech; Bruno Mundim, Rochester Institute of Technology; and Christian D. Ott, California Institute of Technology.
For more information, please visit http://einsteintoolkit.org.
The Einstein Toolkit is a collection of software components and tools for simulating and analyzing general relativistic astrophysical systems that build on numerous software efforts in the numerical relativity community including CactusEinstein, the Carpet AMR infrastructure, and on the public version of the Whisky hydrodynamics code (now modified and called GRHydro).
The Cactus Framework is used as the underlying computational infrastructure for the Einstein Toolkit, providing large-scale parallelization, general computational components, and a model for collaborative, portable code development. The toolkit includes modules to build complete codes for simulating black hole spacetimes as well as systems governed by relativistic hydrodynamics. Current development is targeted at providing additional infrastructure for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics.
The Einstein Toolkit is primarily supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The toolkit consortium comprises several international universities, laboratories and research centers. The Einstein Toolkit Consortium " Chandrasekhar" release team members are: Gabrielle Allen, LSU/NSF; Peter Diener, Frank Löffler, Eric Seidel and Michael Thomas, LSU; Erik Schnetter, LSU/Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics; Eloisa Bentivegna and Ian Hinder, Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics; Tanja Bode, and Roland Haas, Georgia Tech; Bruno Mundim, Rochester Institute of Technology; and Christian D. Ott, California Institute of Technology.
For more information, please visit http://einsteintoolkit.org.
Publish Date:
11-30-2010
