Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics, Albert-Einstein-Institute
The Albert-Einstein-Institute (AEI) is one of the world-leading institutes in the research field of gravitational wave astronomy.
Research topics that are brought into D-Grid include:
- Astrophysical Relativity: experimental verification of existence of gravitational waves in the GEO600 project.
- Numerical Relativity: theoretical study of the physics of Black Holes and the generation and properties of gravitational waves.
- Peyote: 128 dual-processor nodes
- Computing time allocations on HPC resources at various German supercomputing centres (RZG, LRZ and ZIB), via Center for Computation and Technology (CCT) in Louisiana also at various US-american HPC centres (NCSA, PSC, NERSC, CCT LSU)
- one of the world-leading Application Frameworks in the HPC and Grid Computing research field
- already integrated prototype grid capabilities for distributed computing
- monitoring and interactive steering of grid simulations; remote visualisation of high-volume hierarchical datasets
- development of the Triana workflow management system for GEO600 as partner in the EU-funded GridLab project
- as a member of the US-american Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory project (LIGO) also partner in the GriPhyN project
- Co-developer of the peer-to-peer Einstein@Home Software
- Engagement in the Global Grid Forums (GGF) to drive the standardisation and generalisation of world-wide Grid activities
- Development of generic Grid middleware programming interfaces and Grid portals: Grid Application Toolkit, GridSphere Portal Framework