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The Virgo Consortium
Originally posted on sciy.org by Ron Anastasia on Fri 29 Sep 2006 12:41 PM PDT
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What is the Virgo Consortium?
The Virgo Consortium
for Cosmological Supercomputer Simulations was founded in 1994 in response
to the UK's High Performance Computing Initiative. Virgo developed rapidly
into the international collaboration that it is today. The Virgo Consortium
has a core membership of about a dozen scientists in the UK, Germany, Canada
the USA and Japan. The largest nodes are the
Institute for Computational Cosmology in Durham, UK and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
in Garching, Germany.
Other nodes exist in Cambridge,Edinburgh, Nottingham, Oxford and Sussex
in the UK, McMaster and Queen's Universities in Canada, Pittsburgh
University in the USA and Nagoya University in Japan. At any given
time, an additional 20-25 scientists, mostly PhD students and postdocs,
are directly involved in aspects of the Virgo programme.
Science goals:
The science goals of Virgo are to carry out state-of-the-art
cosmological simulations. The research areas include the large-scale
distribution of dark matter, the
formation of dark matter haloes, the formation and evolution of
galaxies and clusters, the physics of the intergalactic medium and the
properties of the intracluster gas.
Virgo's current resources:
Virgo has access to
world class supercomputing resources in the UK and Germany, most notably the "Cosmology
Machine" at Durham, which has
a total of 670 ultra-sparcIII processors, and the IBM Regatta system with
816 power-4 processors at the Max-Planck Rechenzentrum in Garching.
Codes developed within Virgo:
Our main production
codes are GADGET
and MPI-HYDRA. We
also use FLASH.
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THE VIRGO CONSORTIUM
Last updated Thursday 11 August 2005 Designed by Stephen Wilkins, Nigel Metcalfe and Diego Hartasanchez
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News: June 2005
