This series of biweekly talks will focus on computational issues and community and group codes and approaches, relevant for computational relativity. The talks will be presented by teleconference. Talks are envisaged to be short overviews and introductions that lead into discussions. Slides or other material will be available on this page before the presentation. Please email Gabrielle Allen (gallen@cct.lsu.edu) to send suggestions or volunteer yourself to lead a presentation.

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All talks will be at 10am US Central Time. Dial into the conference line at +1 225 578 4942 (or +1 866 573-0359) and then use access code 118682.

September 22nd, 2009

Hydrobase: Standard Interfaces for Relativistic Hydrodynamics
Frank Loeffler, Louisiana State University
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October 6th, 2009

Modeling Mixed Binaries with Whisky
Roland Haas, Georgia Tech
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October 20th, 2009

Hybrid OpenMP/MPI with Cactus and Carpet
Erik Schnetter, Louisiana State University
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November 3rd, 2009

Discussion: Requirements for a new EOS interface in the Einstein Toolkit
Erik Schnetter, Ian Hawke, Roland Haas
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November 17th, 2009

McLachlan: An Open Community Code for Binary Black Holes
Peter Diener, Louisiana State University
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December 1st, 2009

Strong Scaling of Black Hole Simulations
Bruno Mundim, Rochester Institute of Technology