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Inter-Continental Online Visualization and Control of T3E Simulations of Black-Hole-Interactions and Gravitational Waves
Researchers at the Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik and Rechenzentrum Garching der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft are collaborating with scientists at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Argonne National Laboratory to solve the 3D Einstein equations to simulate interactions between black holes and gravitational waves in support of design and interpretation of detection experiments. Gravitational wave iso-surfaces can be selected and displayed near to realtime with the ImmersaDesk equipment.
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Configuration
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An 8,000-mile-long intercontinental network connection provided by: RZG (Garching, Germany) - (B-WiN, DFN) - RUS (Stuttgart) - (public ATM, DTAG) - (CANTAT-3, Teleglobe) - (CA*netII, CANARIE INC / NTN) - STAR TAP / Chicago - (vBNS, NSF) - Argonne - (ATM-OC3, ANL) - San Jose. Special TCP / IP tuning for efficient long distance transfers has been implemented in the communicating applications in Garching and San Jose.
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Application Type
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Astrophysics
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Collaborating Institutions
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik
Albert-Einstein-Institut
Potsdam, Germany
Rechenzentrum Garching (RZG) der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
Garching, Germany
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL, USA
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne, IL, USA
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Application Experiment Site
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NCSA
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Main Feature of Application
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Sustained 10 Mbps bandwidth between San Jose, CA, and Garching, Germany
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Wide-Area Networks
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vBNS, CA*net II, DFN
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Network Protocol
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TCP / IP
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Min / Max Bandwidth Estimate
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10 Mbps
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Project Duration
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September 1997 - November 1997
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Technical Contact
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John Shalf
NCSA
605 E. Springfield Ave
Champaign, IL 61820, USA
jshalf@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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Administrative Contact
and Lead Investigator
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Ed Seidel
Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik
Albert-Einstein-Institut
Schlaatzweg 1
D-14473 Potsdam, Germany
ph: +49.331.27537.13
fax: +49.331.27537.98
eseidel@aei-potsdam.mpg.d
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Coinvestigators
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Joan Masso & Paul Walker
Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik
Albert-Einstein-Institut
Schlaatzweg 1
D-14473 Potsdam, Germany
ph: +49.331.27537.13
fax: +49.331.27537.98
Manuel Panea, Ulrich Schwenn, & Hermann Leder
Rechenzentrum Garching (RZG) der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
D-85748
Garching, Germany
Randy Butler
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
605 E. Springfield Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820, USA
ph: +1.217.244.8285
rbutler@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Ian Foster
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Ave.
Argonne, IL 60439, USA
ph: +1.630.252.4619
fax: +1.630.252.5986
foster@mcs.anl.gov
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