NCSA Teams with NASA on Next-generation Applications
NCSA Researchers are part of a group chosen this summer as a NASA ESS Grand Challenge Principal Investigator team. As part of NASA's Earth and Space Sciences program, the team will help develop next-generation applications that explain and predict interactions in the universe by examining the merger of two neutron stars.NCSA's Mike Norman, Edward Seidel, and Doug Swestry, along with colleagues from UIUC, Argonne National Lab, SUNY-Stony Brook, and Washington University, will receive receive more than $1.35 million for their project, "Developing a Multipurpose 3D Code for Relativistic Astrophysics and Gravitational Wave Astronomy-Application to Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries." By combining fluid dynamics and general relativity, their project will develop computational methods to investigate the merging of two neutron stars. Using leading-edge parallel computing technology, the team will develop code to numerically model the coalescence. They will make that code publicly available to the astrophysics and relativity communities. The three-year collaboration will produce Grand Challenge computer programs 10 times faster than today's.