Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics

这一奖项将在伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校建立一个计算天体物理实验室(LCA)，作为国家超级计算应用中心和天文学系的合资企业。这个实验室的核心是一套新的应用程序，用于在NCSA的超级计算机上实现一维、二维和三维空间的天体物理流体动力学、磁流体动力学和辐射流体动力学模拟。其中几个代码已经被国家研究人员用于各种天体物理问题。LCA的中心目标是为天文研究人员开发、传播和支持通用天体物理模拟的社区代码。

This award will establish a Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics (LCA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign as a joint venture between the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Department of Astronomy. At the heart of this laboratory is a new suite of application codes for astrophysical hydrodynamic, magnetohydrodynamic and radiation hydrodynamic simulations in one, two and three spatial dimensions implemented on NCSA's supercomputers. Several of these codes are already in use by national researchers on a variety of astrophysical problems. The central goal of the LCA is the development, dissemination and support of community codes for astrophysical simulation of general use to astronomical researchers.