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Numerical Relativity @ Parma |
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The Numerical Relativity group at Parma University is involved in the numerical simulation of Einstein's Equation and with the modeling of compact objects, such as neutron stars and black holes.
Our research greatly benefit from various community software development targeting the numerical simulation of Einstein's equations. Among them a special mention are deserved to the CACTUS code (http://www.cactuscode.org/), CARPET code (http://www.carpetcode.org/) and especially the WHISKY code (http://www.whiskycode.org/).
The group used as its main computational tools two small BEOWULF commodity clusters of workstations optimized to run MPI-based parallel program. The two clusters are named Albert100 and Albert2 in honor of Albert Einstein, the founding father of General relativity. The two cluster have being phased out in Febbruary 2010.
The Numerical relativity group at Parma university was set up on April 2004 and it is composed by three members. It has active collaborations with Roma University, the Turin Polytechnical Institute, the Trieste "Scuola Internazionale di Studi Superiori Avanzati" (SISSA) and the "Albert Einstein Institute" of the Max Planck in Golm (Germany). The group is also an active member of VESF (Virgo Ego Scientific Forum).
On April 7th-8th was held in Parma the 2008 edition of the Whisky Retreat to discuss about the future of Whisky.
The Numerical Relativity group is located at the Physics Department of Parma University, Parma Italy. The complete address is: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Parma, via G.B. Usberti 7/A, I-43100 PARMA (PR), ITALIA. FAX n. +39 0521 905223. You may locate us on the globe using google maps: (we are here).
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