Thursday, November 13, 2008

Planetary Simulations With the Data Capacitor

Using three-dimensional radiative hydrodynamic
simulations, researchers in IU’s Department
of Astronomy study the effect of gravitational
instabilities (GIs) on the migration of giant planets
in a massive protoplanetary disk. To accomplish this
task, simulations are performed on Pople, the SGI
Altix at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center via the
TeraGrid, and the data written to IU’s Data Capacitor
via Lustre WAN.

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