Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics

该奖项将建立一个计算实验室， 伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校天体物理学（LCA） 作为国家超级计算中心 应用和天文学系。 这件事的核心 实验室是一套新的应用程序的天体物理 流体动力、磁流体动力和辐射流体动力 在一个、两个和三个空间维度上进行模拟， NCSA的超级计算机 其中一些代码已经在使用中 国家研究人员对各种天体物理问题的研究。 LCA的中心目标是开发、传播和 对一般天体物理学模拟共同体代码的支持 用于天文研究。

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.