Collaborative Research: The Einstein Toolkit -- An Open-Source General Relativistic Multi-Physics Infrastructure for Relativistic Astrophysics

合作研究：爱因斯坦工具包——用于相对论天体物理学的开源广义相对论多物理基础设施

• 批准号: 1212460
• 负责人: Christian Ott
• 金额: $ 8.3万
• 依托单位: California Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-15 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1212460&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Einstein; Toolkit; Open

This award supports the development of the Einstein Toolkit. The Einstein Toolkit is an open-source suite of computational tools that enables interdisciplinary research in numerical relativity, general relativistic astrophysics and gravitational wave physics, and takes advantage of the emerging generation of petascale supercomputers and new cyberinfrastructure technologies. The work supported by this award adds to the Einstein Toolkit transformative new technology in adaptive mesh refinements and general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics, thus boosting simulation capabilities and unlocking new modeling frontiers. The computational infrastructure provided by the Einstein Toolkit has a broad positive impact on the gravitational physics and astrophysics communities. By publicly providing state-of-the-art modeling capabilities that otherwise would stay proprietary, the Einstein Toolkit maximizes the science return of funds invested in basic research. The numerical codes in the Einstein Toolkit support the quick realization of transformative computation and data-driven science stimulated by innovators entering the field. Furthermore, the Einstein Toolkit ensures the sustainability of simulation codes in numerical relativity by providing a straightforward mechanism for the migration of software to new cyberinfrastructure and technologies.

该奖项支持Einstein Toolkit的开发。爱因斯坦工具包是一套开放源码的计算工具，能够在数值相对论、广义相对论天体物理学和引力波物理学方面进行跨学科研究，并利用了新一代千万亿次超级计算机和新的网络基础设施技术。该奖项支持的工作为爱因斯坦工具包增加了自适应网格细化和广义相对论磁流体力学方面的变革性新技术，从而提高了模拟能力并解锁了新的建模前沿。爱因斯坦工具包提供的计算基础设施对引力物理学和天体物理学界产生了广泛的积极影响。通过公开提供最先进的建模能力，否则将保持专有，爱因斯坦工具包最大限度地提高了投资于基础研究的资金的科学回报。爱因斯坦工具包中的数字代码支持快速实现由进入该领域的创新者所激发的变革性计算和数据驱动的科学。此外，爱因斯坦工具包提供了一个将软件迁移到新的网络基础设施和技术的直接机制，从而确保数值相对论中模拟代码的可持续性。